DCplaya 2.0 with SD Card Support!!!

[Dingo]

Few things I noticed while messing around with this version yesterday: (not necessarily 'problems' , just things I noticed)

1. For whatever reason, the new sdcard plug-in breaks the auto load (and connect) of the network connection from the vmu. I tried using the complete new distribution, and i also tried by putting the new sdcard.lez file and modifying the .lua files manually in an older version. Both times I get the same result... an error is thrown during startup (that quickly moves off screen where I can't see what it was) and no networking is set up. I managed to just hard code the Internet settings and the connection command into my userconf.lua and it works that way. but yeah, I think there is something that has gotten messed up with the vmu settings auto-loading and auto-saving, the only thing that is changed in the config is the additional loading of the sdcard driver.

2. Can't download from http to the sdcard. I was hopping this could be accomplished. Dreamcast could be used as a stream ripper. Or one could host a bunch of iso files on a local webserver and use dcplaya to download new isos to you SD card for dreamshell to run without having to remove the sdcard to place it in a pc. I haven't tried if one can do a download from a pc connected with dc-load-ip, but you probably could. It would be cool though if one didn't have to do the extra step of making the dc-load-ip connection to get info from the PC to your dreamcast sdcard. I think this function needs a special command written for it though. (You can get files from http if you open them in ZED and then save them locally, though I'm sure there is a size limit doing it this way.)

3. Video that I had compressed long ago for DCDVIX seemed to play flawlessly from the SD card, no slow down or sync problems (well no more than usual for dcplaya) but they seemed to be at their limit. Couldn't hurt to try increasing the size of the image buffer if a few video's are experiencing hic-ups.