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Chapter 1. Introduction

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Chapter 1. Introduction

Simple Media System (SMS) is a result the original author's (Eugene Plotnikov's) curiosity

about Sony's Playstation2, MIPS, DivX and MP3. His original goal was to create a simple

DivX player able to play good resolution movies at good frame rate on an unmodded PS2

without any extra equipment such as HDD and network adapter.

Why create a complete "system"? Just because having only a player program is not

enough. Since the PS2 conventionally ignores "illegal" disks, he took the idea of Drakonite

with his UMCDR and developed his own "UMCDR". (called CDDAFS). It just stores data on

a CD audio disk format, which can be read on (hopefully) any PS2.

This is the first component of SMS. The second component is a PC program that makes

cue/bin files in order to burn such a disk. And, finally, comes a player program itself. This

system is not complete yet, but it can play DivX movies with sound at good frame rate

already. Player's base is a famous ffmpeg project. EEUG took just some parts of it (DivX

5XX and MP3) and made some modifications specific to PS2 hardware. It has been tested

with many DivX/XviD movies with different screen resolutions and encoding methods and it

seems to be working.

Since the initial concept, the SMS project has now grown to include support for network

files, USB drives, hard disc drives. It now also allows subtitles to be displayed, and contains

a fully functional MP3 player. All the software is now available in the subversion (SVN)

repository at ps2dev.org. It has been made available in the hope that it will be interesting

for PS2 enthusiasts who use it as a base for their own development.

This document provides comprehensive installation and usage instructions. Currently it is

written/maintained in DocBook XML format, and processed for output in a variety of formats

including single HTML and HTML pages grouped into sections. Later it will (hopefully) be

distributed in PDF format as well.

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