FFplay Xbox360 - Homebrew Media Player Posted by XanTium | August 29 02:50 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From the readme/nfo: [QUOTE] Welcome to our release of FFPlay. From Cancerous and JQE This is using FFmpeg libraries from http:\\ffmpeg.org as ported by Ced2911 This is using SDL as ported by Lantus This should play allmost all 720p videos. 1080p IS UNSTABLE please don't report it we know about i. INFO FOR USERS: A brings up a menu, rewind, Fast Forward, Stop, Play, Pause. NOTE: Fast Forward, and Rewind might be unstable. It is know and we are working on it. NOW we have our people to thank. cOz helped with some coding and solved a issue with running it on JTAGS Thanks to testers: Blackwolf, JPizzle, Mattie, Razkar, and Trajik. Thanks for direction and assistance: MaesterRo, Anthony, And node21 Thanks for the libraries Ced2911 and Lantus [/QUOTE] Official Site: http://code.google.com/p/ffplay360/ Download: here News-Source: xbins.org / elitemodscene.com

Man. It's been a great 24 hours for homebrew.

Sweet! Gonna check this out right away!

heh no news source for elitemodscene huh Xantium, oh well. The scene is what matters

Boy a lot has happened these past 2 weeks I've been away from NY. A lot of things to check out when I get back tomorrow. Thanks for all of your hard work, I wish I knew how to code to help out but don't think I would learn it soon enough

That was fast. Great job guys.

That is INSANE this comes out about the same time as the new reset glitch. I've been using Showtime on my ps3 for a few months now and have grown very accustomed to using it despite many flaws. I'm thrilled I have a second option now.

Does this mean you can play 720p Mkv from your internal HDD and your external HDD?

If so this would be awsome

Regards mimicuk

I have been testing it with mkv at 720p and so far it does not like it at all, slow downs and crashing.
I am going to see if it likes 480p mkv content after i get some sleep.

Don't know about external, though I don't see why not, but yes, I was just playing x-men first class 720p .mkv from my internal HDD, and it worked well.

Image quality is slightly lacking, jagged edges/screen tearing, but it's still a great step forward

Only time it slowed down and crashed for me, is when I was wiggling the thumb sticks around. Are they supposed to do something?

I have also tried a 720p movie from my external HDD and can confirm the jagged edges and a slight slowdown but it still plays, further testing is needed but this is a great step forward for movie playback on the 360.

One more question though, when i was testing the movie and pressed the A button to bring up the player controls and pressed stop the machine froze!
Is there a way to go back to freestyle dash or your original dash?

Thanks

Thanks to all involved for this.

Looking forward to a more stable release.

The scene is starting to come alive again with all the latest news

Are there any streaming capabilities yet ? Do i just place the FFplay folder in my apps folder on hdd .

Now all we need is USB Bluray player support! :-)

cant wait to see this progress I hate having wait for the pc to boot up to launch xbmc on my HTPC

great news :-)

ffplay360 section added to spiffy360 if anyone wants to have a go at theming this

here is a nice sample source mkv files:

http://tomtom2k5.free.fr/mkv/

Works great for myself..Great release thanks to all those involved

This is very much an alpha release. We wanted to get this out to the community to start improving on it and build it into something better for everyday use. We don't need tests done, we had testers try almost every media type and have a huge list of what worked and didn't.

1080p XVID plays fine for me, 720p almost everything else, performance will vary between different container types and codec's. you may also notice one 720p mkv plays differently than another, this is because the audio codec types and number of channels can effect playback performance as well.

I tested temps watching a few 2hr movies(@700mb probably 480p) back to back and they were as low as staying at dash

Developers please note source is released, patches can be submitted so if the community wants a better player, they can contribute to it.

Thanks guys, this is awesome.

matroska is an unstable codec at best, I have to use a variety of players PC To get a variety of files to play FMP, seems to be a good fall-back. The fact this works at all on 360 is amazing (To my mind) I think in the future, more attention will be paid to encoding in a 360 friendly manner, that should give the best results... If anyone has good success with any particular5 methods/settings/appps pls let us know :-)

Matroska isn't unstable, and it's not a codec.

Just out of curiosity, can it play strictly audio?

i was just saying how now that all hdmi's are homebrew capable, we will prolly see a media player and some of the emu's release a little quicker and not even 24 hours later someone proves me right. thanks.

Just did a few quick tests. It played FLAC in .mkv and .mka, .m4a 320 and .mp3 V2. Did not play .wma lossless, .flac or Ogg Vorbis q8.

Yes plays music rather well. And Dan, feel free to contribute to the project if you can

This is a pleasant surprise
Especially as tonight my 360 would only play Limitless without the audio synced, had to fire up XBMC on my orriginal xbox
It will be nice to see if this really goes anywhere esp with the new glitch hack broadening the dev horizons

Yea there isn't much to theme on this software, but maybe eventually the dev's will give us more options in future releases. Anyway, our theme section is open for FFPlay 360 on spiffy360.com

Subtitle support??? via .srt.... .sub or embeeded to mkv?

Awsome release, I look forward to the next media center app

MAGIC! Great guys! - so 'mplayer' should be a piece of cake now (?)

Thanks for the hard work guys! I will check it out.

amazing work people glad to see that the scene is being revived

I was just thinking the same thing.

Nice work on this devs.

This is exciting to see, even in alpha. I'm seriously looking forward to more updates. Besides the compatibility and performance issues, you should also look into streaming from PC and support for NTFS drives. Most of my 720p movies are more than 4GB and sit on an NTFS drive and I'd rather watch them all in one go than split them so they fit on FAT32.

The source has been released, feel free to contribute

oh man after 6 years we're finally getting some good homebrew! thank-you!

the provided download source is... lets say glitched

not working anymmore btw

It worked just fine for me. The first time I had to redownload it as my download got corrupted, but I've had no issues running it.

Just watched "archer.2009.s02e02.720p.hdtv.x264-ctu.mkv" without any problems.
A slight glitch for a 1/4 of a secound, then it corrected itself again and kept playing.
Nice work guys! I even skipped forward a few times without any problems.

Falcon on newest dashboard if that's of any interest.

Network streaming would make it perfect though
Like, that would just.. I don't know, that would just be to much for me to handle

edit: could you release a GOD version as well?

did you look in the usual places? idk who linked that download to the news but that isn't how it was submitted

Too bad I got sick of waiting for an ideal console media player and built an HTPC.

But it's nice to know I could have waited it out.

So how do i use it, where do i place the folder ?

Put it wherever you want and run the .xex. You'll get a simple file browser (text only) and be able to select your file from that. If the file is playable, it will load. If not, it returns to the root.

Thanks.

Tested a 720p x264 and 6ch ac3 in mkv, played perfectly.

Tested 360p xvid and 2ch mp3 in avi, played perfectly.

Tested 720p h264 and 2ch aac in mp4, played perfectly.


Internal hard drive working.

Fat32 USB drives working.

NTFS USB drives not working. so no files over 4gb.


Y button changes display format, stretch 4:3 16:9 native etc.

Back button quits video playback. If at root, Back button quits to dashboard.

Triggers appear to fast forward/rewind (buggy).

A button brings up on screen menu.

nice, now thats there's a glitch for slims n all. maybe we can see one day xbmc ported now to x360

wouldn't using a HFS+ (mac) formatted hard disk solve this issue? one would need the ipod optionnal plugin to be installed though.

I doubt people with existing NTFS drives full of movies want to scrap the whole thing and reformat.

Finally, an end to Microsoft's DRM bullshit! Out of about 5 JTAG's I have put together only one would play media reliably without throwing off a codec error. And it's driven me half mad trying to figure out why it never worked as it should.

Suck it MS!

Oh, and in other news, congrats on getting bent over harder than Sony.

been waiting for this since 2006, somehow Thank You just dosent say it.

looks like i wont have any problems playing any of my movies as they are mostly 720p xvid with either mp3 or ac3 audio, if only it supported smb so i dident have to move everything external, im sure it will eventually.

im sure by the time i get done building some reset glitch boards there will be a rebooter out and i can use this on a slim (even my jasper is a bit loud to play movies)

in any case this is major progress in the right direction, thank you for releasing the source, much appreciated.



o did i say

Thank You

no?...ok i will say it again

Thank You

The optional media update works great as long as you set it up correctly. It will of course only play the codex and formats that MS allows. Any other codec's will need to be played with FFplay360.

Steps to get video to play:
1. Find the "optional media update". Use yariswap to remove or verify there is no console ID.
2. Put media update on a XBOX formated mem stick, hdd, or usb hard drive. It will not work if you place it in the contents folder on your USB drive. It must be located on an XBOX formated media.
3. Install full dashboard release that includes avatars. Without installing the full dashboard w/ avatars I found the screen shows up black.
4. Goto stock NXE dashboard, click on your Video Library and enjoy!

I can't wait until this FFplay360 is more stable and the optional media codex pack is a thing of the past. Keep up the great work guys!