NSF player for DirectShow?

NSF player for DirectShow?
by tepples on 2007-09-05 (#26729)

Is there a plug-in that allows Windows Media Player and other DirectShow apps to play NSF and NSFE files? Or do I need to use Winamp or an NES emulator?

by blargg on 2007-09-05 (#26736)

Amen. Someone needs to write a plugin shell for the major operating systems so that we aren't stuck with special players for game music formats. Authors would then be able to port their players into plugins with ease. The Winamp plugins are a start, but it's still not an OS-wide plugin format.

by tepples on 2007-09-06 (#26743)

download the source code for illiminable.com ogg codecs
learn how to interface with DirectShow
pop in Game_Music_Emu
...
PROFIT!

by blargg on 2007-09-06 (#26760)

Got a comparably simple procedure for doing that with QuickTime on Mac OS (X)? Also, for both platforms, how do you handle multi-track formats like NSF and GBS?

by tepples on 2007-09-06 (#26765)

blargg wrote:
Got a comparably simple procedure for doing that with QuickTime on Mac OS (X)?

Replace DirectShow with QuickTime and illiminable with XiphQT. If anyone needs motivation, imagine NSF in iTunes, ready to transcode to M4A for your iPod player. I'd try it myself, but I can't afford a copy of Visual Studio nor a new computer to run it on, and these projects do not appear to build in MinGW.

Quote:
Also, for both platforms, how do you handle multi-track formats like NSF and GBS?

One possibility is to create new formats .mininsf and .minigbs. Like .m3u, these are text files. They consist of a path to a .nsf file or .gbs file on one line and a track number and length on the second. Then the decoder would treat the .nsf or .gbs file as one would a .psflib, .gsflib, or .usflib.

But for now, I've rigged up a decoder based on basics.c from GME that converts the first x milliseconds of track y of a .nsf into a .wav file. This should at least let me render songs from the NSF collections after having played them in Nestopia.

by kyuusaku on 2007-09-06 (#26777)

tepples wrote:
but I can't afford a copy of Visual Studio

Would Visual Studio 2005/2008 Express be suitable? http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/default.aspx

by dXtr on 2007-09-07 (#26784)

kyuusaku wrote:
tepples wrote:
but I can't afford a copy of Visual Studio

Would Visual Studio 2005/2008 Express be suitable? http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/default.aspx

Unless things have changed with Express I think you also would need to get the Platform SDK which can also be downloaded from Microsoft's homepage.

by tepples on 2007-09-07 (#26786)

The platform SDK also appears to require a CD recorder, a broadband connection, and a sufficiently large system hard drive. I have a broadband connection, but I don't know how to troubleshoot unknown failures in my CD recorder.

by dXtr on 2007-09-07 (#26791)

tepples wrote:
The platform SDK also appears to require a CD recorder, a broadband connection, and a sufficiently large system hard drive. I have a broadband connection, but I don't know how to troubleshoot unknown failures in my CD recorder.

...or daemon tools