The Mindcaster

As the time goes by, a lot of progress has been made in my Stackless port for the Sony PSP.

Here I will list everything that changed since the last published archive:

• Time function returns correct date based on PSP Timezone
  

• OGG Vorbis support
• I have added a basic OGG Vorbis support for the port. The API is based on oggplayer from PSPMediaCenter. The problem is that i loads the entire file into memory and playbacks it from there. On MP3 this doesnt happens.. more below.
• The API for the OGG is very simple, a sample application follows at the end of the post.
• MP3 Support
• Its here! With the great help from Ghoti (thanks Rein) the MP3 streaming playback is now available transparently. What streaming means? Your application wont load the entire file into memory for playback. The application creates a buffer and loads small chunks from disk as needed. This leaves a lot of memory to the interpreter and you play with. In my tests, my interpreter have around 18Mb RAM available.
• A small demo is in the bottom of this post.
• SSL Support
• This is the latest addition. Since I cant test all its functionality, I need someone to test it for me. I made a small test where a import socket; hasattr(socket, "ssl")returned "True" so I assumed everything was fine.

All this progress couldn't be made without the help of a lot of people. Jerome for its awesome Python port, Jim for his oggplayer and mp3player libraries based on libTremor and libMad. Ghoti for the MP3 streaming support and all guys that ported the libraries to PSP.

Now I will start tracking the released versions using my own version numbers after a _ character.

This new release is named: PSP-Stackless-2.4.4_1.zip and can be downloaded here.

Here are some example apps:

OGG Playback:

import pspogg, psp2d

pspogg.init(2)
pspogg.load('REALTEST.OGG')

pspogg.play()

while 1:
pad = psp2d.Controller()
if pspogg.endofstream() == 1 or pad.cross:
print pspogg.getsec()
print "end of stream"
pspogg.end()
break

print "exit"

MP3 Playback:

import pspmp3, psp2d

pspmp3.init(1)
pspmp3.load('test.mp3')
pspmp3.play()

while 1:
global lastPad
pad = psp2d.Controller()
if pspmp3.endofstream() == 1 or pad.cross:
print pspmp3.gettime()
pspmp3.end()
break

print "exit"

SSL Support:

import socket
print hasattr(socket, "ssl")


The modules have the following API:

pspogg

pspogg.init(ch) Initializes the OGGVorbis subsystem.
pspogg.load(file) Loads an OGG file.
pspogg.stop() Stop OGG playback.
pspogg.pause() Pauses OGG playback, call again to unpause.
pspogg.play() Play a loaded OGG file.
pspogg.endofstream() Returns 1 if stream has ended.
pspogg.getsec() Returns the stream play time in seconds.
pspogg.getmin() Returns the stream play time in minutes.
pspogg.gethour() Returns the stream play time in hours.
pspogg.volume(vol) Sets the OGG subsystem volume.
pspogg.end() Stops playback and free up used memory.

pspmp3

pspmp3.init(ch) Initializes the MP3 subsystem.
pspmp3.load(file) Loads a MP3 file.
pspmp3.stop() Stop MP3 playback.
pspmp3.pause() Pauses MP3 playback, call again to unpause.
pspmp3.play() Play a loaded MP3 file.
pspmp3.endofstream() Returns 1 if stream has ended.
pspmp3.gettime() Returns the stream play time in format HH:MM:SS.
pspmp3.freetune() Free up used memory and releases MP3 subsystem.
pspmp3.end() Stops playback and calls freetune.

Carlos
carlosedp+themindcaster@gmail.com

Labels: mp3, ogg, psp, python, stackless