v2.1.2

Read this guide for how to convert a video to the .rvid format.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a BlocksDS bug where holding the DSi POWER button after being booted from a homebrew menu (such as TWLMenu++) would cause the console to boot into boot.nds instead of turning off the DSi.
• Fixed last vertical line being shown on the top of the screen when playing interlaced dual-screen 16BPP RGB565 videos in 4:3.

v2.1.1

Read this guide for how to convert a video to the .rvid format.

What's new?

• The screen refresh rate is now adjusted based on the video's frame rate (using code from FastVideoDSPlayer) to remove judder! (Tested with 24 FPS and 25 FPS videos.)
• Added support for videos which play in the native DS refresh/frame rate! (Tested with the first 11 minutes of a Sonic Rush gameplay video from WorldOfLongplays.)

Bug fixes

• Fixed 25 FPS & 50 FPS videos playing at the wrong speed.
• Fixed last vertical line being shown on the top of the screen when playing 16BPP RGB565 videos in 4:3.
• Fixed brief glitched sound playing when unpausing videos containing 8-bit audio stream.

v2.1.0: TWL Christmas Release 🎄

Read this guide for how to convert a video to the .rvid format.

🎁 What's new? 🎁

• Switched over from devkitARM/libnds to BlocksDS!
  • Load speeds have doubled.
  • Progressive scan 8BPP 60FPS videos, interlaced 16BPP 60FPS videos, and dual-screen (but interlaced) 60FPS videos are now playable (without issues)!
  • Filesize has been reduced slightly (combined with switching to THUMB code).
• Untested: Re-added support for old Rocket Video files.
  • Support for old compressed Rocket Video files is still disabled.

🎁 Bug fixes 🎁

• Fixed interlaced 16BPP RGB565 videos not playing properly.
• Fixed filling of top/bottom borders of non-4:3 interlaced videos being a pixel off.
• As a result of switching to BlocksDS:
  • Videos should no longer freeze randomly when playing back from the DSi/3DS SD card slot.
  • 16BPP RGB565 videos no longer have vertical shaking pixels on the right-side of the screen when playing back from the DSi/3DS SD card slot.

v2.0.0: Revival

Read this guide for how to convert a video to the .rvid format.

What's new?

• Videos up to 60 FPS can now be played on DS & DS Lite systems (all without memory expansion)!
  • This has been achieved by allowing the .rvid format to support 256 (8 bits-per-pixel) on-screen colors (combined with dithering for reduced color banding).
• Dual-screen videos are now supported (at half the supported FPS)!
• Added support for playing 16 BPP videos with the RGB565 color mode!
• Added support for 8-bit audio playback.
• The bottom screen backlight can now be turned off by pressing the SELECT button.
• .rvid is no longer shown as part of the video's title.
• The video's title is now centered if it fits within the screen.
• The bar where the video title is shown now contains your set color in the system settings!
• The full play bar is now visible (complete with the slider)!
• Videos can now be jumped towards some seconds or minutes! (Scroll down to Video UI Controls for how to jump.)
• NitroFS has been removed, allowing a .cia build of this application to be made available for 3DS users!
• The logo for Rocket Video Player has a brand new look!
• Due to the many changes within the .rvid format, old versions are no longer supported.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an overlooked bug in libfat where files larger than 2GB would not be read properly.
• Fixed video/audio desync issues by removing the MaxMod library and reading the correct amount of samples per-second.

Known bugs

• 16 BPP RGB565 videos will have the horizontal lines on the right-side of the screen shimmer when playing back from the DSi or 3DS SD card slot. This does not occur when playing back from flashcards.
• Since prior versions, when playing back from the DSi or 3DS SD card slot, there's a rare chance of freezing (with corrupted colors for 8 BPP videos). Closing the console's lid and opening it back up (or pressing HOME twice on 3DS systems) will un-freeze the video.

Video UI Controls

• A or touch Play/Pause button: Play/Pause video
• L shoulder or touch the left tip of the play bar: Stop video
• D-Pad Left/Right: Jump 5 seconds (30 seconds with R shoulder held)
• D-Pad Down/Up: Jump 10 seconds (1 minute with R shoulder held)
• D-Pad Left+Down/Up+Right: Jump 15 seconds (2 minutes with R shoulder held)
• SELECT: Turn off/on bottom screen backlight (only applies to single-screen videos)
• B or touch Return: Exit video

v1.1

What's new?

• You can now play videos losslessly compressed with the LZ77 format!
  May lag, depending on how big the height of the video is.
• Interlaced videos can now be played!
  For those videos, the frame rate limit for streaming from SD card, is doubled from 24FPS to 48FPS.
• Rocket Video Player's logo is now shown on the top screen, when browsing a .rvid file.

v1.0: Initial release

Requires either nds-hb-menu or TWiLight Menu++ to use this.