A newer version of KOS can be found on the CVS depository over at sourceforge. Dan Potter now included some standard functions (like qsort, abs and labs) that were needed for compilation of sndoggvorbis.

As for my current status on sndoggvorbis. I did some cleanup but did not include seeking yet. This could get a bit more complicated than I thought. But if it takes longer than Dan Potter needs to package up a new version of KOS I will submit the sources as they are to the sourcetree so that sndoggvorbis will be part from the coming KOS release on.

I hope to have better news in the mid of next week (still trying to get seeking working).

In case those of you who follow the DVD recompression scene didn't already notice, there's been a new release of the popular DivX codec. With release 4.02 the following improvements were made:

• Encoding performance increased by 20% in average
• New Post-Processing/Deringing Algorithm which improves playback quality of DivX movies.

You may grab the codec over at their homepage.

I haven't updated my site the last week since I didn't spend too much time on my computer lately (except for checking eMails).

Development of sndoggvorbis is still being done and coming along nicely. I try to get seeking in Vorbis-files done today or tomorrow and then the sources will be integrated into the KOS sourcetree.

Also I want to note that I'm in the process of writing a full Vorbis player. So far only parts of the GUI are working, but as I said I didn't spend any time at all during the last week on Dreamcast development.

I hope to post more news soon.

As time progresses sndoggvorbis (an Ogg/Vorbis player library for KallistiOS) gets more and more stable and richer in features.

Also, GhettoPlay-Vorbis gets more and more a real player (this was never the intention, it was just meant to be a test-tool for reading Vorbis Files from CD, but while implementing new features to the library I also include these features in GhettoPlay in order to test them)

For those more interested in the Codec please visit www.vorbis.com. In my personal opinion Vorbis is the Codec that should be used in the future. It's open-sources, license fee free and just sounds better than MP3 at lower bitrates.

You can still grab the actual GhettoPlay-Vorbis at my geocities storage here.
(just go to this site and download GhettoPlay-Vorbis there)

NOTE:
I will also put up a Discjuggler selfboot image soon so that those who wanna try it the real-way on a CD can test it !

Addendum October 11th, 22:34:
I updated the file above with a newer version that now supports something like an internal playlist and is also based on a newer build of the library (the playlist feature has just been added to make it more usable for people who just want to use it to play their music !)

Made some more progress on sndoggvorbis today. Now the library is also able to read comment fields (structures much like ID3tags in MP3) and the actual bitrate of the read bitstream.

I also compiled a newer GhettoPlay-Vorbis binary with this new version of sndoggvorbis which uses the new getter-functions to display current playing bitrate and some contents of comment fields. (it seems GhettoPlay-Vorbis develops more and more into a real Vorbis Player for the Dreamcast)

You can grab this file at my geocities storage here.
(just go to this site and download GhettoPlay-Vorbis there)

A new version of the DVD->(S)VCD Converter program DVDx has been released. But due to my involvement in the DCDEV scene I had no time to change the pictures in the tutorials but if you already used former releases you will find the right configuration values in the new Interfaces.

• Several bug fixed (incl. splitted output of AVI files)
  
• DeMacrovision
  
• HDD Buffer (Save the DVD drive)
  
• Resize / Crop (Custom zoom)
  
• PX3 optimization (not ended)
  
• Few improvement in the motion search (internal encoder)

You can download it here

Dan Potter has released version 1.1.4 of this Dreamcast OS KallistiOS. Here's what has been changed (taken from changelog of the distribution):

• Store queue support
  
• New and improved matrix math routines
  
• Patch to KGL to clip polygons with bad w value
  
• Patch for serial I/O that does not reset the baud rate if it's already
  been set. This should eliminate a lot of problems with mismatched
  serial baud in dcload
  
• Patch to fix GL_QUADS constant
  
• ftan support, plus KGL usage
  
• Fix for iso_ioctl
  
• New spinlock code works a lot better
  
• Fixed a bug where thd_enabled wasn't being set to 1
  
• Render done seems to work again, so it's now re-enabled
  
• Added 'menu' command in KOSH to exit to the DC menus
  
• Added rtc_unix_secs() support for reading the current date/time
  
• Fixed some problems in VMU writing
  
• Added a new 'hello' example in the DC examples tree which shows
  a basic project skeleton which you can start with.

Get over at sourceforge to download it here

Progress on sndoggvorbis is coming along nicely. It now runs on its own thread and is controlable just like libmp3.

Also, in order to test out sndoggvorbis with a variety of Vorbis files I changed the KallistiOS ghettoplay example to be able to playback Vorbis files from CD. So far it works great apart from the fact that when you're playing a file (and sndoggvorbis accesses the file for buffering) and you're changing to a path on the CD where the OS has to read its entries the whole thing messes up.

You can grab a binary of this GhettoPlay-Vorbis from my Yahoo storage here
(if you can't download by just left-clicking, right click the link and choose save-as ! There seems to be a problem with geocities)

NOTE:
Please report when you have Vorbis-files that you cannot play using this binary so I can track down what's making the problem.

Those who spotted my postings on the DCDEV List already knew that I'm developing a Ogg/Vorbis player library (with the same interface and usage as libmp3 which comes with KOS).

Work on this is coming along nicely. I already posted the link to a working decoder binary (which was based on a very draft version of my lib). Later today I changed the whole interface to reflect the same as libmp3.

I still have to do some major bugfixing and cleanup. But be assured that as soon as the quality of the library hits my expectations, I will submit the sources to the KallistiOS sourcetree.

You can grab the binaries from my Yahoo storage here