Nintendo DS Modding Index

Rocket Video Player

Advanced users, Windows x64 only #

This is a time-consuming process, and may not be noob-friendly. It should only be followed if you are an advanced user.

  1. Download Vid2RVID
  2. Download an old build of VirtualDub2
  3. Download and install Audacity
  4. Download and install the first-listed Win64 dynamic at 16 bits-per-pixel component build of ImageMagick under Windows Binary Release
    • During installation, once you’ve reached Select Additional Tasks, tick on Add application directory to your system path
  5. Create a folder which will later contain the video’s frames. It can go anywhere, but creating a folder called rvidFrames and placing it in the same place as Vid2RVID.exe will work as well

Extracting video frames #

  1. Open VirtualDub2
  2. Click File -> Open video file...
  3. Search for the video file, and open it
  4. Click Video -> Filters...
  5. Click Add...
  6. Search for resize, and click on it
  7. Click OK
  8. Under New size, change the top-left number to 256
  9. Click Video -> Frame Rate... to check the video’s frame rate displayed next to No change (current: , and keep it in mind (or write it somewhere) for when you’ll use Vid2RVID later
  10. Click File -> Export->Image sequence...
  11. Set the exact following in this screenshot: VirtualDub settings
    and click ... to find the new folder where the extracted video frames will go
  12. Click OK to export the frames, and wait until the extraction is done

Extracting video frames (bottom screen) #

If your video is not dual-screen, skip to Extracting audio

  1. Make sure the video is the exact same aspect ratio and resolution as the video for the top screen (ex. if the top screen video is 4:3, the bottom screen video must also be 4:3)
  2. Create a folder called bottom inside the folder containing the video’s frames
  3. Follow the above steps for Extracting video frames, but for step 11, open the bottom folder
  4. Make sure the amount of .png files in the root frame folder and in the bottom folder are the same, otherwise Vid2RVID will complain about the amount of frames not matching

Extracting audio #

If your video does not have audio, skip to Converting to the .rvid format

  1. Click Audio -> Full processing mode
  2. Click Audio -> Conversion...
  3. Under Precision, click 16-bit
  4. Under Channels, click Mono
  5. Click File -> Save audio... to save the .wav file somewhere
  6. Open Audacity
  7. Click File -> Open...
  8. Search for the .wav file, and open it
    • If you’re asked to set the project tempo, click Yes
  9. If the audio waveform is below 0.5, click Effect -> Volume and Compression -> Amplify...
  10. Make sure Allow clipping is ticked
  11. Depending on how low the wafeform is, set Amplification (dB) to either 6 or 12
  12. Click Apply
  13. Click File -> Export Audio...
  14. Set File Name to sound.raw
  15. Set Folder to the folder containing the video’s extracted frames
  16. Set Format to Other uncompressed files
  17. Set Channels to Mono
  18. Set Sample Rate to 32000Hz or less, keep that in mind (or write it somewhere) for when you’ll use Vid2RVID later
  19. Set Header to RAW (header-less)
  20. Set Encoding to either Signed 8-bit PCM or Signed 16-bit PCM, keep that in mind for Vid2RVID as well
  21. Set Export Range to Entire Project
  22. Click Export

Converting to the .rvid format #

  1. Open Vid2RVID by dragging and dropping the folder containing the video’s extracted frames into Vid2RVID.exe
  2. Press the ENTER key
  3. Choose the amount of colors to display on-screen by pressing one of the number keys
  4. When asked to choose the frame rate, choose the one that you’ve kept in mind during the video frame extraction process in VirtualDub2
    • If for example, the frame rate you checked in VirtualDub is 24.000 fps instead of 23.976 fps, hold the Right -> key while selecting the 23.976FPS option
  5. If the frame rate is 24FPS or less, you’ll be asked to compress the video frames. Press the Y key to compress the frames
  6. When asked to choose the audio sample rate, choose the one that you’ve kept in mind during the audio export process in Audacity
  7. When asked to choose the encoding of the audio, choose either 8-bit or 16-bit depending on which one you picked during the audio export process in Audacity
  8. You’ll now be asked if the entered information is correct. If you believe it to be correct, press the Y key to save the information and begin the conversion process
  9. If you’ve picked 256 (8 BPP, RGB565) as the color amount, open the Process Frames.bat file that has been created in the same place as the folder containing the video’s frames, and wait until it’s done, where you can then press the ENTER key to continue
    • If you’ve gotten an error for one of the video frames, that means ImageMagick has failed to process that frame, so it’ll not be displayed properly in Rocket Video Player

When this process is done, drag and drop the new .rvid video file to SD card. Once you put the video on your SD card, it will be ready for playback via TWiLight Menu++ or the standalone Rocket Video Player.

NOTE: If the video file is above 4GB, it cannot be placed on the SD card, and as a result, cannot be played.