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How to put movies on a Nintendo DS using a Mac

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blogmywiki
on November 19, 2007
in MacOS X, Nintendo DS, children, computers and gaming
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Memo to self, type post - please ignore if you don’t have a Mac and a Nintendo DS…

You will need:

  • A Mac running OS X
  • A Nintendo DS or DS Lite
  • An M3 card or similar to run Moonshell - the homebrew multimedia player
  • The excellent, free Mac/Windows MPEG Streamclip to convert your movie to a 15 fps (frames per second) 256 x 192 resolution AVI with MPEG-2 128 kps sound.
  • You can go command line to convert the movie to a DPG file that Moonshell will play, but much easier to use Mac DPG Converter and Mencoder - make sure you put Mencoder in the same folder as Mac DPG Converter.

    And then there we are, enjoying Shaun the Sheep, transferred off the Humax PVR and onto the small screen - 1 episode clocks in at about 9 MB. Perfect for boredom-relieving.