PPlay v3.8 Video Player with PS4 Support PKG by Cpasjuste, v4.02 Compiled by PSBax4

Proceeding his OpenTyrian Homebrew Game Port PS4 PKG and PEMU Portable FinalBurn Neo Emulator PS4 PKG, PlayStation 4 Scene developer @Cpasjuste recently updated the pPlay video player for Nintendo Switch in his Github repository with a pPlay v3.6 PS4 PKG adding PlayStation 4 support for Jailbroken PS4 consoles followed by a pPlay v3.7 PS4 PKG, pPlay v3.8 PS4 PKG update, PPLAY v3.09 PS4 PKG and PPLAY v4.0 PS4 PKG updates with more revisions linked below compiled by @psbax4.

Download: pplay-3.8_ps4.zip (34.5 MB - includes IV0001-PPLA00001_00-PPLA000013080000.pkg and subfont.ttf) / GIT / IV0001-PPLA00001_00-PPLA000013090000.zip (41.93 MB - PPLAY 3.09 includes IV0001-PPLA00001_00-PPLA000013090000.pkg) / IV0001-PPLA00001_00-PPLA000010400000.zip (44.32 MB - PPLAY v4.0 includes IV0001-PPLA00001_00-PPLA000010400000.pkg) compiled by @psbax4 / IV0001-PPLA00001_00-PPLA000010400100.zip (46.09 MB - PPLAY v4.01) / IV0001-PPLA00001_00-PPLA000010400200.zip (47.66 MB - PPLAY v4.02) / IV0001-PPLA00001_00-PPLA000010400300.zip (45.83 MB - PPLAY v4.03)

Spoiler: Depreciated

In the changelog below @Cpasjuste notes he's currently seeking donations to buy a PS5 to develop on, so those interested in supporting his ongoing homebrew work in the scene can do so directly HERE via PayPal.

pPlay v3.8 Changelog:

• PS4: correctly fix some clock/sync problems (previous fix was running all videos at 60 fps, they now correctly sync at video fps as on other platforms)

pPlay v3.7 Changelog:

• PS4: fix some clock/sync problems (fix lag problems on 1080p videos)
• PS4: fix "watch-later" mpv option
• PS4: add new shader (support more videos)
• common: correctly show currently selected video/audio/subtitle track in options menus
• common: correctly restore video/audio/subtitle track selection and position on video restart
• common: create pplay data directory on launch

pPlay v3.6 Changelog:

• add PS4 support
• further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments to enhance the user experience...
• note: I'm actually seeking donations to start developing on the PS5 (to buy a device). If you want to support this, please donate here!

And from the README.md: pPlay

pPlay is a video player for the Nintendo Switch. pPlay support most popular video format, subtitles, http and ftp streaming and more. pPlay use the MPV interface to handle ffmpeg interoperability, which provide a fast, stable and powerful experience.

Installation

• Switch: copy "pplay" folder to switch sdcard ("/switch/pplay")
• PS4: install pkg and copy "data" folder on ps4 internal hdd

Usage (switch)

• Use left/right to switch menu's and windows... select a media and... have fun.
• When playing a media, you can press the "DOWN" or "A" button to bring the UI, the "R" shoulder for fast forward ("L" button to stop), and "LEFT" to access video, audio and subtitles selection.

Notes

• pPlay can stream media from an http server with directory listing enabled, or an ftp server. To do so, you must edit the configuration file (pplay.cfg) to add your server address:
  • NETWORK = "http://samples.ffmpeg.org/";
  • NETWORK = "ftp://user:password@ip:port/";
• As pPlay use MPV, you can put a file named "mpv.conf" in the "mpv" folder to play with. See the CONFIGURATION FILES and OPTIONS sections in the MPV manual for more information.
• pPlay should be able to play most media. While 720p and 1080p medias should be fine, you can unlock all the switch cpu speed for heavy medias in the main options menu (LEFT button)

Cheers to BiteYourConsole of BiteYourConsole.net for the heads-up on this via Twitter!

 

[psbax4]

@JeanPlu70 sounds like pplay.cfg is from v3.8, delete or rename the old pplay.cfg and start the PPlay app to generate a new pplay.cfg. libScePigletv2VSH.sprx and libSceShaccVSH.sprx might be corrupt try starting PPlay without piglet and shader compiler by renaming them, if that works you can reenable them again.

@wxywp4 seems like you are confusing play direction with play speed. I have tried mentioned feature and ps4 cannot handle it. Play backward is slow and crashes PPlay on high resolution media. You can still try it out by adding play-direction=backward in mpv.conf.

 

[adamssf]

@JeanPlu70 No need folder ps4shacom, delete o rename this -precompiled app psbax4?-. The app works without it. No blue screen or other defects. The subtitles work better than others versions

ps: @psbax4, the download link for pplay v.4.01 is down. I used the mirror 4.00. thanks for your work

 

[jamiroquai]

stunning!

Will get this going on my 5.05 console and report back.

 

[JeanPlu70]

@psbax4 Thanks for your quick helpful response! With a new pplay.cfg file it is working fine. Oh yes there was problem with the .sprx files. I removed both of them including folder.

@adamssf I agree. the folder ps4shacom is not necessary. PPlay works fine without. Could not yet test all popular video codecs (for example H265), but that ones I tested worked perfect.

 

[psbax4]

Many new features and configurations have been implemented, making it possible for PPlay to control and make use of features from mpv and ffmpeg. This should improve sound quality, picture quality and configurability of subtitles. For technology demonstration 3D and VR support have been added.

Do not get your expectations up, it does not perform due to hardware limitations for the same reason gyro is not supported. VR is in some case quite use able, in other it will cause stability issues due to lack of computation power, memory limitations and above 4k media. Detailed description on how to install, configure and use is provided in readme.txt.

PPlay version 4.02

• IV0001-PPLA00001_00-PPLA000010400200.zip (47.66 MB)

I do not know how long the link will be up mirror if you want to.

If you use iptv or streams to watch public TV I recommend updating or overwrite the old mpv.conf in data/pplay/mpv as the new mpv.conf contains configurations making it cache and stream with less cache miss and stream stop.

 

[Droby25]

@psbax4
Does it mean the latest 4.02 would support 3D mkv OU or SBS movies thru PSVR?

 

[psbax4]

@Droby25 The provided version does not work with psvr. Use your mobile phone, remote play and some cheap vr goggle, resolution depends on the phone you use, but they should all have better resolution than psvr.

However you could repackage PPlay with psvr attribute to make it work with psvr, but I am not sure how it would work in psvr. Use Attribute 8405000 this enables neo mode, stereoscopic 3D and psvr support.

 

[wxywp4]

Bug report: Version 4.0.2, many MP4 videos cannot be played, version 4.0.1 has no problem

 

[nuttertools]

Is it possible to run it on PS5? Will there be support?

 

[EtherEax]

@psbax4, is your version closed source or you run a Github repo? We could take from your version and keep it open source to keep it synced with ffmped updates.

Here's Ethereal, new to this forum and to the playstation scene in general, but with several years of experience in Xbox 360 scene, where I contributed to several homebrews and projects like Linux on the Xbox 360.

I'd like to work on that, starting from your source or Cpasjuste's.
About version 4.0.2, I get error CE-34878-0 on some MP4 videos, it should be codec related, previous version is no more on 1fichier so I can't try it.