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Jim · Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 487 Location: Sydney

I've ported MikMod module player V3.0.3 to PSP. I think this about the last version released before the player GUI was split from the actual player, c1999. I can't find any current maintainer to submit changes to.

It will play most MOD, XM, IT, S3M, STM, MTM, 669, FAR, DSM, MED, ULT and UNI tracker files (while other things are happening).

An example app is included. I built it with cygwin and beta 1.0 SDK.
The modules I used are hardcoded in the source.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~jimshaw/PSP/mikmod-3.0.3.zip

Thanks to Peter Amstutz and all the other MikMod developers who released it under a free-to-anyone license.
Also many thanks to the ps2dev people for the psp sdk.

Jim

emumaniac · Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 79

link not working ?

Jim · Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 487 Location: Sydney

Fine here. :-/
Jim

caetla · Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 3

get compilation issue :

Jim · Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 487 Location: Sydney

Looks like however you unzipped it has messed up the file dates.
Try using the 'touch' utility to fix them.
eg.

caetla · Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 3

it seem you miss the final error :

../lib/libmikmod.a: could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to add one
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [mikmod.elf] Error 1
All done.

Caetla

Jim · Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 487 Location: Sydney

I'm sorry, I don't know what's wrong there.
Maybe if you do what it says, find libmikmod.a and do

Shine · Joined: 03 Dec 2004 Posts: 728 Location: Germany

Nice work, but for big sound files it needs some minutes to load. I've patched it to load from memory the source and compiled with a nice sample. Now the music starts immediatly after program launch and I've added some text output for the instrument names, which are used for the composer comments.

With the bin2o it is very easy to include large binary files into the PBP file, but you have to use the -G0 switch, if the file is too large. Just put a "music.xm" file into the userdir (need not to be in xm-format, but the name is hard coded in the Makefile) and you can recompile it with your own music.

It is only a quick hack, the clean solution would be to use a special FILE_MIKMOD struct instead of FILE*, which has some pointers to the file IO functions and could be initialized with memory IO or file IO functions, like in ZLIB.

Jim · Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 487 Location: Sydney

Thanks! That's a good idea.

What I think I'll do today is build a proper file selection graphical front end for both MikMod and the YM players and put up a src+binary release.

Are there any directory scanning APIs or is it going to be easier to use a playlist?

edit: Another question, maybe it will be enough to improve the buffering in stdio in PSPSDK to get the big modules to load - I'm guessing the real problem is streaming byte-by-byte from the MS?

edit2:
You'll like this one a lot more. MikMod PSP V1.1 is released!
http://members.iinet.net.au/~jimshaw/PSP/mikmod-3.0.3.zip
Includes a file browser and a binary release!
Big modules now load instantly too!

Jim
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Sixtoe · Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1

Loverly to have a .mod player for the psp, good work. Handful of requests if possible for a future version...

Can you support files in directories please? (I have too many mods ;) At the moment if you have a directory and select it the player crashs the psp.

Can you make the player automatically move on to the next song in the list?

Can the graphics on playback be optional? (seems to be badly flickering, also not having graphics will improve battery life I imagine)

Can the list be sorted alphabetically rather than randomly (or is it by order added to the dir?)

Cheers,

Six...

Jim · Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 487 Location: Sydney

I think all those things are desirable, along with playlists, shuffle and all the other wonders of media player.
The graphics are crap, and just an experiment, I don't think they're going to flatten the battery too quick. I'll have to learn how the blitter library works for next time.

Thanks for the feedback.

Jim
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wulfie · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 28

have there been any updates to this awesome player? personally I'd like to see the graphics be 'optional' ;)

Jim · Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 487 Location: Sydney

Frankly, this was never supposed to be a binary release. I wanted to use a mod player for doing as yet undesigned PSP demos. Both the YM player and MikMod have been incorporated into PSPMediaPlayer. While that also is an immature product, I'm sure it would be better if all these media types were supported in one central program and we could all work on the UI, which is the important thing for end users. We're not yet all cooperating at that level, though I hope soon we might.
So, no, I'm not really doing updates unless I need them myself and I feel like it.
Thanks for calling it awesome though :-)

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Warren · Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 173 Location: San Diego, CA

People are more than welcome to contribute to PSPMediaCenter, we were supposed to have a GUI to it made by qubitz but he seems to have dropped the ball. We have setup the gui subdir of PSPMC so that it is very easy to add new GUIs and select them at compile time.

PompeySteve · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 14

Hi

I'm having trouble compling... the first error I get is :

mikmodpsp.c (79) : error: parse error before 'dir'

Any ideas?

Cheers

Steve

Jim · Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 487 Location: Sydney

The source is compatible with an older version of the SDK. I'll post up a new version later this week.

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adresd · Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 43

As Warren pointed out.

in PSPMC, the gui's have been abstracted out, so ppl can add more.. I please ask they leave the debug gui pretty much alone for me and warren to play with (unless good reasons).

The same is true of the decoders (mp3,ogg,mikmod etc) so they can be easily added/compiled in/out.

the main thing PSPMC does, at its base is handle a list of decoders, the main other point is the gui, which is easily alterable/selectable.

This was all done to try and encourage people to contribute to it, without the normal complaints of 'i dont like that gui', well easy, write your own one, as long as we dont end up with 2^40 gui's it should be manageable.

Jim · Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 487 Location: Sydney

Is there a reason why I can't see the source for pspmediacentre in SVN?

Anyway, as promised, updated source for MikMod with latest SDK version is here
http://members.iinet.net.au/~jimshaw/PSP/mikmod-3.0.3.zip
also including new binaries.

Changes:
Source updated to latest PSPSDK.
Sorts the file list alphabetically.
Media files now live in PSP/MUSIC instead of local folder.
Some WAV files can now be played (flakey).
Graphics are off by default.

Jim
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Warren · Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 173 Location: San Diego, CA

It's in the PSPWare repository, not PSP.

Shine · Joined: 03 Dec 2004 Posts: 728 Location: Germany

What's the current state of mikmod? Looks like there is already a bit of mikmod integrated in PSPMediaCenter. I've compiled PSPMediaCenter (which was a bit difficult, because it expected libmad and libTremor directories instead of using the standard include path, but libmad uses PSPDIR instead of PSPSDK, so even if using the standard directory it would not work, or do I need to set the PSPDIR variable, too? ), but looks like it shows only mp3's from the music directory.

nevyn has repackaged Jim's latest port to a library, perhaps it should be imported in psp svn repository, like libmad and libTremor, and then it can be used from PSPMediaCenter and other programs. If this is the way to go, it should be done like other libraries, first importing the original source as a vendor branch and then the PSP changes.

nevyn · Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 136 Location: Sweden

Here's my feeble attempt at a library package:
http://ncoder.nevyn.nu/psp/mikmodlib.zip

(Packaging and unix libraries really isn't my area of expertise, so that package is seriously fugly. ('tho it works))

Jim · Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 487 Location: Sydney

If someone wants to drop mikmod in as a library into svn, then do it. Sounds like a good idea. I'm on holiday for the next month :-) so I won't be doing any work on it.

I've updated it to the latest PSPSDK and mikmod builds and works well there.

It's true that 3.0.3 isn't the latest version of mikmod, but the 3.1.x and 3.2.x libmikmod code I found will be a fair bit harder to port for very little gain. So I'm not planning to do that.

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_tmator_ · Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 19 Location: France

Hi,

i port libmikmod 3.11.1 and i want to commit it on svn but is it a good idea to have twoo mikmod vesion with same headers filename ?

this can do a conflict ....

i wait your suggestions

thx.

nevyn · Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 136 Location: Sweden

_tmator_ · Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 19 Location: France

i don't know but i use it to run bb demo from aalib ;)

Shine · Joined: 03 Dec 2004 Posts: 728 Location: Germany

Jim · Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 487 Location: Sydney

It didn't look like much had changed in the driver, feature-wise, to me. Still only mono PCM samples for instance, and one new module format added. All the work seems to have been done in the front-end player, which isn't much use on the PSP. The player is GPL.
I didn't think it was worth the extra hassle to go from PD to LGPL.

Jim
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