Playorama is a cranky video player for the Playdate. You can use the crank to fast forward and backward or move frame by frame through a video.
Warning: The process to get your own videos on the Playdate is a bit clunky. There’s a demo video included in the application if you’re not at ease with encoding video and audio.
Playorama.pdx
file.While a video is playing, you can use the following controls.
A
: pauseB
: menuUp
: toggle track barLeft
and Right
: toggle through different playback speedCrank
: change playback speed up to 4x If the video is paused, using Left
and Right
or the Crank
will move frame by frame.
Playorama has two options available in the Playdate System Menu:
Data
folder, locate or create the folder the app has access to. The folder shall be named either:
com.hteumeuleu.playorama
if you sideloaded the app over a USB connection, user.xxxx.playorama
if you sideloaded the app through the Playdate website before february 2023 (where xxxx
should be replaced by your user number used in other folder names),user.xxxx.com.hteumeuleu.playorama
if you sideloaded the app through the Playdate website after february 2023 and Playdate OS update 1.12.sample.pdv
and sample.pda
).You can download the following videos to try it out.
(Coming soon!)
Download an archive and extract it in the application data folder (See 2.
above.).
.pdv
file for the video..mp3
.1bitvideo.app
the video encoder made by Panic’s Dave Hayden: https://devforum.play.date/t/video-encoder-work-in-progress-mac-only/1390/23. .pdv
and a .m4a
file. The Playdate can not read an .m4a
from a data folder, so we need to encode the audio into .pda
.Crank Player has a bash script that relies on ffmpeg and a custom Python script to convert a video into a .pdv
.
You can compile the code with the following command:
pdc ./Source/ Playorama.pdx