Too long in all probablity, however I’ve been working on a little tool project the past few days and felt that I needed to share the fruits of my labours.
The tool in question is a video conversion program for the 3DS, when I found out how easy it was to get videos up and running on the 3DS I decided that it was worth taking the time to make a tool to make the whole process painless. To this end I present you with VidTo3DS (yes I know not a very original name), here’s a shot of the main window.
It’s not very exciting either, but it does have quite a few nice features, firstly since it uses FFMPEG for conversion it handles just about any video format you could care to mention (and a few others that it’s probably best not to mention), secondly as you can see it’s highly customisable, you can choose the output resolution, the video layout, even the audio stream (it does actually count the audio streams for you). It even calculates the number of sections required to fit within the 3DS’s 10 minute clip limit (it actually uses 9:59 for safety). The Create 15 second Tester Video is a nice feature, this allows you to create a small test video that will encode in a few seconds to check that your parameters (particularly the reverse image one) are correct before you commit to the long process of converting an entire video (each subsequent section takes longer than the last since FFMPEG doesn’t seek very well and tends to skips all the proceeding frame to get to the desired start time).
And just what would you expect to pay for such a fantastic gem as this? How about nothing, nada, zip, that’s right I’m giving this away for free from the goodness of my own heart (okay more like to avoid GPL issues using FFMPEG as the conversion tool), so here’s the program.
Download: VidTo3DS
To make this work you will need the .NET Framework 4.0 you can download it from Microsoft here.