EZBuilder
DPG Video Converting with EZBuilder
The Moonshell DS application can play DPG video. It does a very good job and compression is pretty good. The R4 Revolution DS has Moonshell builtin. You can play DPG on any DS cart that allows you to load Moonshell.
I stumbled upon a very good batch converter for DPGs, it doesn’t have a nice gui but it’s very well made. Just drop the files in a folder, run a text program, hit 2 keys and it starts converting.
Software needed:
EZBuilder
AVISynth
KLite Mega Codec Pack
- Download English version of EZBuilder.
- You need codecs, I usually use the Klite Mega codec packs from free-codecs.com
- This has every codec under the sun, DIVX, Xvid, RM, QT, etc
- Download and install AVISynth. I’m using 2.5.7
- Unzip EZBuilder to a directory (www.7zip.org to download decompresser)
- Copy the videos you want to convert into the MediaFile folder
- For SRT subtitles, put them them in MediaFile folder with the same name as the movie. ex. shrek.srt with shrek.avi
- For SSA/ASS/IDX/SUB subtitles, put them in Subtitle folder
- Run ezbuilder.exe
- Choose [2] ” Nintendo DS About “
- Choose [1] NDS-DPG
- Wait, encoding times varies with your CPU, I have core2duo 1.8Ghz and it converts pretty fast.
- When your file is converted, it should show up in the DoneFile directory
- Copy the WHATEVER.DPG file in the DoneFile directory to your microSD card
- Launch Moonshell and watch
Hints:
1. Try not to have funky characters or spaces in your file name
2. Use the NTFS Link Shell extension
