Right now I'm in the process of cleaning up my modified PSX2LIB sourcetree and as soon as this is finished I will upload the new release here. I will also check and contemplate which changes will be merged into the official PSX2LIB CVS repository (please let me know if you have any opinions on this).

Personally I think my Makefiles are a lot better structured and manageable than the original Makefiles which come with the PSX2LIB distribution.

But thus far I haven't gotten any pro or cons to whether or not we should change the Makefiles to my Makefiles.

I just updated to DVD conversion tutorials to the new site-design. Although I did not yet manage to update the contents to the newer Tools (or never releases of old tools). I try to update the tutorials to reflect the new versions later this week.

I am also working on getting the Compiler Tutorials for the Gameboy Advanced online and as soon as time permits I will also continue on my sndoggvorbis Playstation 2 project.

Today I updated the PS2DEV section with the PSX2LIB Compiling Tutorial and the Naplink Upload Tutorial. (This weekend I will also upload a newer version of my repackaged PSX2LIB including a different and more complete libc which I need to get my sndoggvorbis to run on the Playstation 2)

You can find the tutorials in my PS2DEV section here.

NOTE:
The PSX2LIB Compiling Tutorial uses my repackaged release of the PSX2LIB library since I still believe that my Makefiles are a lot easier to maintain than the original PSX2LIB Makefiles.

Effective immediate I will no longer cover DiVX as the main encoder when writing and converting my DVD->MPEG4 tutorials.

This change in direction has been initiated by the recent change in DiVX's license policies which no longer make this codec GPL or freeware.

From now on the codec of choice for all future (and after the modifications also for the old) tutorials will be the XViD Codec, which is still open-sourced and actively being developed on.

Windows builds of the most recent CVS sources (this is the encoder part) can be grabbed at uManiacs XViD Binary site which can be found here.

A very good playback filter (for all MPEG4 content, including DiVX 5.01 and XViD) is the ffdshow project which can be found here. (ffdshow also includes greate post-processing filters)

With the XViD Encoder and the ffdshow playback Filter you have a good combination for your DVD backup needs. As soon as I update the DVD tutorials to the new design I will also change all references to DiVX to XViD.

At first sorry for my lack of presence lately. I had quite some personal stuff going on during the last weeks but I hope to get back into PS2 Development soon.

During the time of my absence there've been some software releases for DVD to MPEG4 conversion.

1. XMPEG V4.5
   Sadly there haven't been any releasenotes for this new version of XMPEG (which is based on the latest FlaskMPEG sources).
   
   Download XMPEG V4.5 here
   
   
2. DVDDecrypter 3.0.0.17
   There have been some corrections to minor bugs and the VOB Splitter has been rewritten.
   
   Download DVDDecrypter 3.0.0.17 here

During the process of changing the DVD->MPEG tutorials to the new design (which will also be done soon) I will also try to reflect the newer tools in the screenshots !

I updated my modified PSX2LIB sources package to reflect the most recent sources that can be found on CVS. These new sources incorporate the changes to PSX2LIB that now add IOP-Callback functionality to the library.

You may download it here or via the link at Latest Downloads.

NOTE:
This version has not only been compile-checked but I also checked whether or not binaries compiled with this version do actually run on a PS2. So it should be safe to update to this newer release.

I had the first success in getting my sndoggvorbis library (so far only being available for KallistiOS on Dreamcast) to compile and even run using PSX2LIB on the Playstation 2. So far I did not hook up the decoder to an audio-driver but this will have to wait until the whole decoder is working as it should be.

NOTE:
I also had to change the PSX2LIB included libm to a somewhat more complete and working libm (I took this libm from the current version of KallistiOS).

It seems that sndoggvorbis still has some memory issues. Just wanted to let you know in case anyone using it has some unexpected crashes or memory problems.

They will be fixed as soon as anyhow possible (I don't have too much spare time on my hands these days, but Dan Potter is searching for these problems right now)

Those who are using my sndoggvorbis sound library in their Dreamcast projects should update their KOS to the most recent CVS release or to the next major release as it becomes available.

The current CVS features some fixes for various memory lleaks which caused a 100 kb memory waste every ...start() ...stop() cycle. With these fixes sndoggvorbis should now be leak-free.

Dan Potter (the main person behind KallistiOS) also informed me that he is using sndoggvorbis for his game project Feet of Fury. Nice to see my library actually is being used in a bigger project.

Today I updated my Modified PSX2LIB Sources package to include the newest sources of the original PSX2LIB by Gustavo Scotti.

I take no credits for the changes in the library itself only for the new Makefiles which are a lot easier to maintain than the original ones.

You can download the new tarball here or via the Latest Downloads.

NOTE:
Due to the fact that my USB cable does not work currently I only did a test-compile, not a test-run on a PS2 ! As soon as I have a new cable (which will be either tomorrow or on Friday) I'll post the results here.!

Just wanted to let all of you who are following my site know that I'm back from my vacation in Japan and with quite some surprise I realized that quite some stuff was going on during my time of absence. (it starts with quite a bunch of tutorials available for PS2dev and goes on with quite some changes in KOS)

I'll try to get heads on with all the latest developments in both Dreamcast and Playstation 2 dev and update the site soon.

I will also update my modified PSX2LIB package to reflect the most recent version from CVS since I think my Makefile architecture (kudos to Dan Potter) is more usable than the original one in case you don't have the tools where PSX2LIB expects them.