Vchat20 Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 looking for a decent media player for my dc. hopefully one that plays video as well as music. swap disc would be nice, but not completely neccessary. what do you recommend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 This depends on what kind of media files you want to play, tell me what kind of files and ill tell you Certain players are only good for certain types Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vchat20 Posted January 10, 2004 Author Share Posted January 10, 2004 mainly mp3's, wma's (wma's not majorly important), and would like to be able to play mpeg movies and divx encoded avi files if posible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted January 10, 2004 Share Posted January 10, 2004 ok im gonna post a list of what you should have for each one... For DivX use DCDivX http://homebrew.dcemulation.com/dcdivx.shtml MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE DIVX CODEC 5.10 OR BELOW, NOT 5.11!!! IT WILL NOT WORK!!! For MP3 use DreamMP3 Or Pelicans MP3 player http://homebrew.dcemulation.com/dreammp3.shtml Thats DreamMP3 Pelicans one is floating around in a RAR file in DC Hubs that include the MP3 player among other things (cheating discs, boot dics, etc.) Ive never tested it but this seems to play everything, it may not work well, it may work excellently, i have no idea, il test it and post again soon http://homebrew.dcemulation.com/dcmovieplayer.shtml Thats DC Movie Player by the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 Alright i tested DC movie player it plays everything GREAT, everything works perfectly except one thing when you play videos the audio is either offsync, skips, repeats, or combinations of the three works great for audio though just check out www.DCEmulation.com or www.Consolevision.com for a replacement or something for the rest of the files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vchat20 Posted January 11, 2004 Author Share Posted January 11, 2004 strange. cuz i tried DC Movie player and it ceased to function. i would start it up, hit Y to swap discs, put in my mp3/wma/mpeg disc and tried to play all 3 formats. wma's worked, but acted as if it was chopped into 1 second peicves and they were overlapping each other. mp3's would not work at all. it would just restart the DC. and mpeg's were the same way. im now using DC playa. not all formats are supported, but ver reliable and nice vis' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 well a newer version was recently released, you may have the older version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamCastLover Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 For mp3s I use ToEleven. It's great because you can use it with the VMU which means you don't have to have your TV on at all to use it to listen to music through your sound system. DC movie player by Bero is probably the best all round media player though. It seems to handle everything. Remember guys that you may have to re-encode your movies to get them to play properly on your DC without skipping and sound synching problems. Best to go to http://www.dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=40 for more info and to ask any detailed questions you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 actually DC media player plays almost any video format perfectly unless you encode it at like 2.1 MBPS All you have to do is lower the SOUND quality, i get very rare and slight problems at 128Kbps, but if you want it to be flawless i would suggest 98KBPS, trust me, you would really be able to tell the difference unless the movie has a lot of really well mixed music in it. To-11 is nice, but the VMU blurring makes it a pain in the ass, you have to keep mashing the D-Pad to get it to pause, good player, but since my VGA monitor is right next to my stereo, i dont use it much Oh yeah and about Pelicans MP3 player, forget it, its crap, it just randomly works and doesnt work on certain songs, way too unreliable, forget it... oh yeah and one more question, whats the bitrate of DVD quality Stereo sound and Movie quality, im testing the hell out of my players right now hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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