CEVidium - Video Conversion and On-Calculator Playback Project

Warning:

• This only works on the TI-84+ CE.
• This will not work on the TI-84+ CSE.
• This will not work on any TI-84+ (SE)

Motivation

I wanted to see Bad Apple play on my TI-84 CE. Then I wanted to see more cool stuff.

Project Dependencies

• Python 2.7.x
• FFmpeg (you may need to Google how to install this; they don't make it easy)
• ffmpy (Python library used to link to FFmpeg; install via pip/pip2)
• pillow (Python Imaging Library fork; install via pip/pip2)
• CE programming toolchain (described in the video player section)

Converting the Video

1. Copy your .MP4 or other video file to the CEVENCODER folder.
2. Rename that video to a name that contains 8 or less characters.
3. Open a command prompt in the CEVENCODER folder.
4. Type:
   • BUILD2.BAT -h
5. Read the options, then retype the above line without the '-h' flag and with the flags that you want. For example, if your input video is MYVID.mp4 and you wanted to use the 96-by-X 4 level grayscale encoding with dithering:
   • BUILD2.BAT -i MYVID.mp4 -e M1G4 -d
6. If everything worked, copy the contents of CEVENCODER/bin to your calculator.

Building and Sending the Video Player

1. If you have not installed the CE programming toolchain, download and install from: https://github.com/CE-Programming/toolchain/releases
2. Open a command prompt in the CEVPLAY folder and type the following in order:
   • make gfx
   • make
3. If everything worked, copy CEVPLAY/bin/CEVIDIUM.8xp to your calculator.

Building and Sending the Decoders

1. Double-click CEVDECODER/build.bat to run it.
2. If everything worked, copy the contents of CEVDECODER/bin to your calculator.

Copyrights and Licenses

• The ZX7 (de)compression code and executable was done by Einar Saukas. See CEVENCODER/tools/ZX7_LICENSE for details.
• SPASM-ng (e)z80 assembler was done by a bunch of people. See CEVDECODER/tools/SPASM_LICENSE for details.
• The rest of Project CEVidium was done by me. See LICENSE for details.

Acknowledgements

• Merged fix for counting logic, by github user ctrefethen
• Those fixes for the original version of the encoder, by commandblockguy, whose pull requests I mismanaged because I didn't know what I was doing. (sorry!)

Controlling the Video Player

Controls on video selection:

Controls during playback:

Version History

• 0.00 - Initial commit
• 0.01 - Updated the documentation to make what's available actually useable
• 0.02 - Updated docs again, figuring out merge stuff to include others' improvements.
• 0.03 - Fixed a bug that prevented 4:3 video playback with the M1X2-ZX7 decoder. Also changed UI spacing in the media player for readability and made it easier to make other changes like that in the future.

Known Issues

• Deprecated the original encoder toolkit without prior notice but still have references for it for debugging purposes. You should be using BUILD2.bat
• If you choose to modify the build to use the old codecs, encoder 4 (DECODR03) is known to crash.