PMP VLC 0.0.7 Player

jockyw2001 escribió:
Okay guys, Brasil vs. Japan just finished so here we go.

binary: PMPVLC007-binaries.zip
Your Download-Link: http://rapidshare.de/files/23826326/PMPVLC007-binaries.zip.html

sourcecode: PMPVLC007-source.zip
Your Download-Link: http://rapidshare.de/files/23826847/PMPVLC007-source.zip.html

I'd say initially stick to the recommendations given below for pmp.ini before you start experimenting. The text below is a copy of the accompanying readme.

Have fun,
JockyW
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PMP VLC Player
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version: v.0.0.7
date: 06-22-2006
by: JockyW


What can you do with it?
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PMP VLC Player plays mediafiles:

A) from memorystick
* Videos from PSP/VIDEO
* Music from PSP/MUSIC

B) from Optixx' PMP Server via WiFi (requires Python)

This is similar to the PMP MOD 2.00 version with network support, but it requires you to manually transcode all your video files to PSP format. I added it this feature for playing music files in native format (.mp3 and .m4a) where there is no need for transcoding. PMP server mode is enabled by setting an option in pmp.ini

C) transcoded and streamed from VLC via WiFi (requires VLC 0.8.4a)

Now that's really new :)

You can now play mediafiles on your PSP which are stored on your PC, with no need to first manually transcode and copy them to memstick. So if you are a lazy bumb like myself and if your PC runs all the time and you like to watch movies or tv on your PSP this proggie is just what you need. The transcoding is done by VLC in real time (that is if your PC is fast enough. My CPU is a AMD XP2400 with 768MB RAM and runs just fine). The PMP VLC client controls your VLC server: you can open a file for playback, pause, stop and seek (forward, rewind) it. Streaming protocol is http via tcp.

If you have a TV card or any live stream source you can have VLC transcode and stream it to your PSP. I use a Dbox2 digital sat receiver which send the stream to VLC which in turn sends a transcoded stream to my PSP. Atm I'm watching WC Soccer Brasil ag. Japan 1:1 The ball is a bit small but bigger than on my UMTS mobile :)

Another advantage is that VLC runs on many platforms (linux, windowz, mac, etc.)

PMP VLC 0.0.7 is actually JiniCho's PMP 0.06 (Nov '05) with jonny's performance improvements. I've added network streaming and VLC control support. Essentially it is a PSP port of Ffmpeg's ffplayer.


Installation
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1) install VLC 0.8.4a on your PC
Get it from: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
==> DON'T INSTALL 0.8.5, IT CURRENTLY DOESN'T WORK WITH PMP VLC <==

2) On windowz create a shortcut to vlc.exe where target looks like this:
"D:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --extraintf=http --sout-transcode-fps 25.0000
(note that your path may be different from mine).
On other platforms make sure that vlc is strated with the parameters:
--extraintf=http --sout-transcode-fps 25.0000

3) copy VLC/pspfiles.html to D:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\admin

4) rename or remove the file .access if it exists in D:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\admin (it allows for password access control which I currently do not support)

5) copy the PMP VLC binaries to your PSP (/PSP/GAME/PMPVLC007_JockyW and PMPVLC007_JockyW%)

6) edit pmp.ini and copy it to /PSP/GAME/PMPVLC007_JockyW

==> See below for an example of pmp.ini <==
==> set vlc = 0 if you use pmp_server, and 1 if you use vlc <==


Usage with VLC
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Before you start, make sure that there is at least one file in each of the /PSP/MUSIC and /PSP/VIDEO directories on the memorystick.

1) start VLC with the parameters: --extraintf=http --sout-transcode-fps 25.0000

2) start PMP VLC 0.0.7 on your PSP

3) in the main menu press the right trigger to enable WiFi and network support

4) click select and from the media menu select video, music or live stream

5) if you select video or music a directory listing shows mediastick and network files. The latter are shown with the prefix "net:/" (backslashes are shown with some kind of weird character, prolly because the font I use does not have it or whatever. That's just cosmetics which doesn't interest me so much)

6) during video playback you can use:
square -> stop playback
cross -> pause
D-pad R -> forward 10 sec
D-pad L -> rewind 10 sec
D-pad U -> forward 1 min
D-pad D -> rewind 1 min
R-trig -> forward 5 minutes
L-trig -> rewind 5 minutes
(Note1: the D-pad and triggers are disabled in livestream mode)
(Note2: with some files seeking/skipping doesn't work)

7) during music playback you can use:
R-trig -> play next track in directory
L-trig -> play previous track in directory
square -> stop playback
cross -> pause

==> If you play music it is transcoded <==


Usage with PMP Server
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1) start PMP server
(I've added Optixx' PMP server in the package)

2) start PMP VLC 0.0.7 on your PSP

3) in the main menu press the right trigger to enable WiFi and network support

4) click select and from the media menu select video, music

5) if you select video or music a directory listing shows mediastick and network files. The latter are shown with the prefix "net:/" (backslashes are shown with some kind of weird character, prolly because the font I use does not have it or whatever. That's just cosmetics which doesn't interest me so much)

6) during video playback you can use:
square -> stop playback
cross -> pause
D-pad R -> forward 10 sec
D-pad L -> rewind 10 sec
D-pad U -> forward 1 min
D-pad D -> rewind 1 min
R-trig -> forward 5 minutes
L-trig -> rewind 5 minutes

7) during music playback you can use:
R-trig -> play next track in directory
L-trig -> play previous track in directory
square -> stop playback
cross -> pause

8) live playback can't be used with PMP server

PMP.INI example
===============

It consists of 3 sections:
1) [net] for network settings

con: the WiFi profile
server: ip address of your VLC or PMP mod server
port: port number of your VLC or PMP mod server. PMP mod server uses 3333 by default but you can change it in the .py script. For VLC you can set it to 8080 (same port is used for control) or to any free port on your PC (e.g. 1234).
debug: set it to 1 if you want to debug with psplink

videopath: the path on your PC where your movies are stored
musicpath: the path on your PC where your music is stored
*) Note: only for VLC, the PiMPserver directory is hard coded in pmp_server.py

vlc: '0' for PMP server, '1' for VLC

2) [transcode] for VLC audio/video transcoding settings

This is a tricky part where you can spend quite some time with
For background info on this see:
http://www.videolan.org/streaming/features.html

I recommend these settings as they are most stable and deliver reasonable good quality:
res_horiz = 360;
res_vert = 272;
vid_codec = DIV3;
vid_bitrate = 700;
vid_fps = 20;
aud_codec = vorb;
aud_bitrate = 48;
aud_channels = 2;
container = ogg;

I found that ogg container format works best, followed by asf. The asf demuxer often fails with an assertion.
aud_codec = mp3 with aud_bitrate = 64 can work nice and fluent too, however there is a bug in the ffmpeg ogg demuxer causing a crash after ca. 15-20 minutes.

You should experiment to find your optimal settings. You can probably raise the bitrate a bit and you can try other videocodecs such as mp4v.

I had little success using ts and ps containers.

3) [live] live stream server IP and Port numbers

Note that lines starting with a # are treated as comment lines

Code:


# Net Io Config
[net]
con = 2;
server = 192.168.1.13;
port = 8080;
debug = 0;
videopath = d:/Movies/;
musicpath = d:/Music/;

# set vlc = 0 if you use pmp_server, and 1 if you use vlc 0.8.4a
# don't forget to set port to 3333 if you use pmp_server
vlc = 1;


# VLC transcoding settings
[transcode]
res_horiz = 360;
res_vert = 272;

vid_codec = DIV3;
#vid_codec = mp1v;
#vid_codec = mp2v;
#vid_codec = mp4v;
#vid_codec = DIV1;
#vid_codec = DIV2;
#vid_codec = h263;
#vid_codec = h264;
#vid_codec = WMV1;
#vid_codec = WMV2;
#vid_codec = mjpg;
#vid_codec = theo;

vid_bitrate = 700;
vid_fps = 20;

#aud_codec = mpga;
#aud_codec = mp2a;
#aud_codec = mp3;
#aud_codec = mp4a;
#aud_codec = a52;
aud_codec = vorb;
#aud_codec = flac;
#aud_codec = spx;
#aud_codec = s16l;
#aud_codec = fl32;

aud_bitrate = 48;
aud_channels = 2;

container = ogg;
#container = ts;
#container = ps;
#container = mpeg1;
#container = mp4;
#container = mov;
#container = wav;
#container = raw;
#container = asf;
#container = asfh;
#container = mpjpeg;


# live stream server
[live]
liveserver = 192.168.1.13;
liveport = 1234;




Issues and future features
==========================

- There are still many stability and performance issues. Usually the first video starts and stops immediately, the second time it usually contunues to play well. I've added an automatic restart mechanism to cope with this, but it's not bullet proof.
- With jonny's GU color space conversion I can probably gain a few frames per second.
- It would be cool if VLC would support jonny's pmp container (can be done since VLC is open source)
- If you play music streamed by VLC it is transcoded. The next version will have an option to play w/o transcoding
- DVD/(S)VCD streaming
- Toggle between VLC and PMP server mode with left trigger (?)
- The next version will definitely be better


Credits
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* JiniCho is the genius who started PMP player based on ffmpeg and ffplay.
* jonny is the genius who created the PMP MOD player with many performance enhancements
* all other devs of ps2dev.org
* all devs of tuxbox.org (a community dedicated to dbox2 DVB receivers)
* and to all I forgot ...


Annex1:
Dbox2/Dreambox live TV streaming
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Variant 1)
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Here are instructions for streaming from Dbox2/Dreambox to PSP via VLC.
No need for Neutrino GUI and/or Neutrino TV
I tested this with RTL on digital Astra 19.2E and it worked fine.

1) zap to RTL channel on Dbox2/Dreambox
2) start VLC on PC
3) File - Open Network Stream ...
4) in Open textbox paste http://192.168.1.250:31339/0,002C,00A3,0068,006A,0069 (IP you should be your Dreambox)
5) check 'Stream output' and click Settings button
6) in destination target paste the following line:
Code:
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=700,width=360,height=272,fps=20,acodec=vorb,ab=48,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=http,mux=ogg,url=0.0.0.0:1234}}

7) no further settings necessary, just click OK twice
8) start PMP VLC on PSP
9) select Live Stream and enjoy RTL live on your PSP, of course this will work for all other channels too


Variant 2)
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I'm using the Neutrino GUI on my Dbox2 for which there is this cool app called NeutrinoTV.

Check it out here:
http://forum.tuxbox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41590
(I hope you can read german too )

So if your Dreambox runs Neutrino then you only need to install NeutrinoTV (which requires VLC, and in this particular case you can install the latest VLC version 0.8.5 instead of 0.8.4a so that you can stream radiochannels as well), configure it with your Dreambox IP and run it.

NeutrinoTV picks up the stream from your Dreambox and acts as the VLC server for the PSP. In my distribution you find a directory VLC in which there are 3 streaming profiles for NeutrinoTV:
EnablePSPStreamingServer-asf-mp3.nvo
EnablePSPStreamingServer-ogg-mp3.nvo
EnablePSPStreamingServer-ogg-vorbis.nvo

On the PSP you'd select play Live Stream and in your pmp.ini in the live section the port number should be set to 1234 (this corresponds with the port number in the 3 profiles). Of course you change that.

I recommend the latter profile for near perfect streaming comfort !
Works great for me.

PS: even if your Dbox2 or Dreambox has a VLC plugin it can not be used without NeutrinoTV.
Your box simply does not have enough horsepowers to do the on-the-fly transcoding !


Annex2:
How to stream (internet) video podcasts to PSP
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1) start VLC on PC
2) File - Open Network Stream ...
3) in Open textbox paste the url of the video stream, e.g.:
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/services/podcasting/nitn/video/2006/06/22/nitn.06.22.affl.m4v
4) check 'Stream output' and click Settings button
5) in destination target paste the following line:
Code:
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=700,width=360,height=272,fps=20,acodec=vorb,ab=48,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=http,mux=ogg,url=0.0.0.0:1234}}

6) no further settings necessary, just click OK twice
7) start PMP VLC on PSP
8) select Live Stream and enjoy a transcoded stream on your PSP


Annex3:
How to stream from TV cards to PSP
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1) start VLC on PC
2) File - Open Capture Device ...
3) enter capturing card details in the dialog
4) check 'Stream output' and click Settings button
5) in destination target paste the following line:
Code:
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=700,width=360,height=272,fps=20,acodec=vorb,ab=48,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=http,mux=ogg,url=0.0.0.0:1234}}

6) no further settings necessary, just click OK twice
7) start PMP VLC on PSP
8) select Live Stream and enjoy a transcoded stream from your capture or TV card on your PSP