Free McBoot 1.4b CNF Autoboot problem?

[TnA]

I think DVDV-Support will come, if ESR is FINAL.
I have nothing to do with ESR.
I help Jimmi with testing and give him some hints on how to do what (My opinion is to have highest compatibility with a few features, mod-chips provide.).

How you could help:

-Test Beta-Builds (+Bugreport)
-Provide solutions, or a "(sub)program structure chart" how to fix problems, or add features.
-Sources
-Ideas (+ solutions, if possible)
-etc. (anything else, that might be helpful)


It's maybe 5Sec. faster, but even a direct-boot of a disc.
I didn't test, how faster it is.


About DVDV-(Fast)Boot:

It depends on the way, ESR is working, why it isn't that easy to implement Fastboot of it.
I didn't see any sources of it yet, but ffg explained it very well, so I doubt it's harder, than the Fastboot-Feature for PS2-CDVDs.
It would be easy to integrate DVD-Video-Fastboot, but to differ between ESR-Disc and DVD-Video, ESR must be loaded (afaik).

Easiest way is to recognize SYSTEM.CNF on DVDV-Patched disc.
If it isn't there, it is a normal Video-DVD and directly could start the PS2-DVDPlayer.

[suloku]

Well, on an unmoded ps2 if you can't read the disc, it's an original ps2 disc, but to read a dvdvideo disc (thus triggering esr launching) you need libcdvd with dvd video support, which I don't know if is used for the launcher in fmcb.

[TnA]

Eeerm,... Well.
If this is a statement to my post, it wouldn't help much (because the problem is, how to differ between ESR-DVD-Video-Disc and a real DVD-Video). :-/

Or maybe, I got something wrong.
Was kinda hard to read (for me ^^ ).

[suloku]

I'll reexplain my post.

To read a dvd video disc with a homebrew app, the library used to read the discs needs to support the dvd video filesystem. uLe doesn't (if not launched from ESR, which makes uLe support dvd video discs) and I dunno if the default loader does.

If the loader has dvd video support, it may be able to read the dvd video contents (ie system.cnf and de TS_video folder), which means it is a dvd video game, so we can launch ESR to make it boot.

On an ummoded console, if it is a normal ps2 disc it would just be unable to read the disc, so trying to launch it is futile.

Now I remember ffgriever saying that the GUI version of ESR will be able to launch no patched discs and have some checking like this one. I don't remember crearly, maybe he never said something like that.

[TnA]

I'll reexplain my post.

To read a dvd video disc with a homebrew app, the library used to read the discs needs to support the dvd video filesystem. uLe doesn't (if not launched from ESR, which makes uLe support dvd video discs) and I dunno if the default loader does.

If the loader has dvd video support, it may be able to read the dvd video contents (ie system.cnf and de TS_video folder), which means it is a dvd video game, so we can launch ESR to make it boot.

I thought about that, too.
But then there is the driver in RAM.
It needs an IOP-Reset from within ESR, before it reinitializes the support for DVDV-Disc and starts the game.
Maybe Jimmi has a better solution.
We'll see.

Now I remember ffgriever saying that the GUI version of ESR will be able to launch no patched discs and have some checking like this one. I don't remember crearly, maybe he never said something like that.

If he did, please point me on this.