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[chronoserpent]

For some reason, my supercard can't play the movie files from this website: www.gbafilm.com which should be compatible with all devices using the GBAMP firmware.  It can open the file, but the video is all distorted.

I think it's because I need to update my firmware (for the video player).  However, every time I try to update, it says that it was successful but when I go check the version, it's still the same.

Any suggestions?

[morpheus384]

Been there, done that, people here helped me out.

 The reason you cant view the video from that site is because the people there are using the most updated software for Filmplay.  The version that supports Supercard is the old 3.0 software. All more recent versions do not support supercard.  You should find that you have no problems with viewing movies or listening to audio converted with the software available from the Supercard site. However you will not be able to find many files online that support 3.0 and hence your Supercard   .

 When I figured this one out I suggested that Supercard users should get together and have a site to exchange files already converted by the software for our units e. g. 3.0. The thread died after that. Most folks here have DS's and use Moonshell for viewing Video.

I thought it was a good Idea since it takes alot of time to convert video since your basically resizing every frame at 24 frames per second to fit the gba/DS screen.

If your using DS I would suggest Moonshell-It has unbelievable resolution ,plays mp3s wma,ogg; as opposed to gbs-files which are larger than their target conversions (I converted a 42 meg MP3 of "Retrogaming Radio" and after it was converted to gbs it clocked in at 150 megs  :? in gbs format ),but the video conversion with Moonshell is "lossless" so the files get to be quite huge.

Cheers!

[Koji]

Close, but the last version Supercard supports is 1.3, not 3.0 ^_^

Also, moonshell no longer uses a lossless format. It uses MPEG-1 as it's primary compression format which is (thankfully) lossy, and thus MUCH smaller. 175MB episode of anime converts to just under 60megs with full screen (can easily read subtitles) and very very nice.

[morpheus384]

Thanx for the chime in Koji! I stand corrected on the version, your completely right  :oops: ! As I dont own a DS, I was going on what Id read on the boards....sounds like a significant improvement on Moonshell video conversion!
Gotta get me a DS and a Passme 2 to try it out

Thanx!

[chronoserpent]

So there's no way to update FilmPlay or anything like that?  Oh well, I guess I'll have to shell out the bucks and get a PassMe.

[Koji]

So there's no way to update FilmPlay or anything like that?  Oh well, I guess I'll have to shell out the bucks and get a PassMe.

Filmplay is actually a program you have to buy... I don't know the entire circumstances... but it's a program designed for GBAMP and M3 and downloading it from anywhere else is actually (probably) illegal.

Romman wanted to add video capabilities to the supercard so it could better compete with the GBAMP. So what he did was he hacked version 1.3 to support reading directly from the supercard. I'm not sure if Romman was later threatened to keep him from doing it with later versions of the program, he never figured out how to do it with the later versions of the program, or just gave up work on keeping up to continue working on the supercard firmware (most likely) I'm not sure.

Also, really in comparison moonshell is much better in graphic and audio quality and it's generally smaller in size. MPEG compression makes me smile.

[MAD2X]

Yeah moonshell is the bomb and converting a movie/show to dpg really doesnt take all that long, a couple of minutes and it's ready.