video and audio stream in DS

[infernoDS]

I was looking into buffering it to the GBAMP and playing it from there, but that was partly working, I had to download the whole file first after which playing was possible, but streaming would be possible eventually, in different blocks, but as mp3 playback takes a lot of the DS as it is, I doubt that downloading alongside it is feasible. But we'll see.

[PickleHead]

but as mp3 playback takes a lot of the DS as it is, I doubt that downloading alongside it is feasible. But we'll see.

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Then again you could have a server program that decodes the mp3 and then sends raw data or something to the ds.

[fischju]

but then you have to worry about bandwidth

[PickleHead]

It's always something isn't it! I guess you'd just have to find a balance between the two...

[tssf]

What are you doing, InfernoDS? DPG streaming?

 

Why use MP3? Wouldn't MP2 be a lot less taxing on the CPU to decode? Or hell, GSM would be fine as well. The PC-side server should be doing most of the hard work. I imagine it takes longer to encode than to decode, or am I wrong? o.o;

[davos1]

Its better to use a format which is less in size.

[infernoDS]

Ah well, we'll see what comes to this. Mp3 was quite easy for me as even fragmented pieces of a mp3 file work nice, and I haven't really thought about other formats (I mean, I don't suppose mp4 (good audio quality + small size) (aac etc.) has been ported yet has it?).

We'll see... We'll see...

[PickleHead]

How taxing is it to decode ogg?

[fischju]

how much ram would something like this use......i bet if you got the right format fiels could be sent faster than they are played and the rest can be buffered

[davos1]

I think its better to load the whole song into the RAM. It would be faster but there will be like a 3MB limit (Unless there sent in like 2MB fragments). Or the song could be transfered into the GBAMP, SC or M3 CF.

[infernoDS]

The GBAMP bit was my idea as well.