[RELEASE] Pep-Viewer 0.8

[ytsejam1138]

All credit goes to Pensoffsky. I'm just the messenger. You can grab it here: PeP-Viewer 0.8

Here's the blog site: PeP-Viewer Blog

And here's the readme file:

Readme
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PeP-Viewer v0.8 - by pensoffsky
Readme by MjW
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For information, requests, support and more please visit:
http://pepviewer.blogspot.com



About:
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PeP-Viewer is a comic and picture viewer for the Sony PSP handheld.
It supports JPEG and PNG images with no Height, Width or Size limitations.




Installation:
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Considering you have a homebrew able PSP (for example version 1.5), you COPY
the folders pepv08 and pepv08% to your GAME folder in your memory stick.
The files should then be in \PSP\GAME\pepv08 and \PSP\GAME\pepv08%

The application should be compatible with any PSP that can run homebrew.
Meaning: 1.5, any PSP with HEN and any PSP with a Custom Firmware.

NOTE that if you have a custom firmware you homebrew folder will probably be
GAME150 instead of GAME, depending on your settings.





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Controls and Settings
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Controls while in Settings:
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X: Confirm or enter a selection or option.
CIRCLE: Main menu or back.
D-PAD: Is used to browse between options or selections. Also D-Pad Left and
Right can be used in big lists of selections to jump 5 rows up or
down.
SELECT: Pops Up the mp3 player options.
L-TRIGGER and R-TRIGGER: In the Files browser it jumps to the first or last
selection.


Controls while in Image Viewer:
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CIRCLE: Main menu.
SQUARE: Pops Up the ZoomBox. Pressing again toggles between the 3 Zoom
Levels.
D-PAD: Is used to move the image around.
ANALOGUE STICK: Is used to move the image around.
L-TRIGGER: Next image.
R-TRIGGER: Previous image.
SELECT: Pops up the mp3 player options.
START: Pops up Various resizing options and image information.




Config:
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CPU-Speed: 3 settings adjust the CPU speed to your needs, 111, 222 and 333.


Precaching: Precaching allows you to silently load the next 1 or 2 pages
while you are reading. This minimizes the loading time near
zero.
Image Padspeed: Not a lot to say about it. 4 different speed settings,
Slow, Middle, Fast and Faster.

Image Analogspeed & Zoom Padspeed & Zoom Analogspeed: Same as above.

Fit to : Here you can set a default resizing option. You can choose between
None, Width, Height, Double Page and Width+Offset

Fit to offset: Here you choose the offset for the Width+Offset option above.
You can choose between 0, 20, 40, 60 or 80.

Rotation: Choose a default rotation setting of 0, 90, 180 or 270 degrees.

Top/Center/Bottom: Choose from where the image should start.

Left/Center/Right: Same as above, choose from where the image should start.

X and Y Offset: Are used to configure the starting point of an image with
more precision.

Reverse L & R: Reversing the L & R triggers.



Bookmark:
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The bookmarking feature is quite simple and is explained in the application
itself as well.
First use SQUARE to set a bookmark and then use R-TRIGGER to save. X to load
a bookmark and TRIANGLE to delete. Press CIRCLE to go back to the main menu.


MP3:
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As with bookmarks the controls are explained in the application itself.
Browse to you mp3 songs which should appear in blue and then press
TRIANGLE to Pause, SQUARE to Stop, X to play and CIRCLE back to the main
menu.
The folders appear in green colour and the mp3 files in blue. Everything
else that is not supported will appear in light grey colour.


Files:
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Here you browse to your comics. The folders appear again in green colour and
the supported images in light blue. Everything else that is not supported
will appear in light grey colour.

[SnYpEr WoLf]

Info please...

[flatmush]

Any kind of explanation anywhere?

Edit: Ok I googled it and found this (http://pepviewer.blogspot.com/) but it's kind of useless posting "Here's something by someone" without an explanation.

[ytsejam1138]

This program has been around for quite awhile. It just hasn't been updated in over a year. I figured everyone knew what it was without an explanation. It's similar to PSP comic, but many more features. However, PSP Comic can read archived images (.zip .rar .cbz .cbr) and PeP Viewer cannot.


The readme only mentions JPG and PNG image files, but Pep-Viewer will also display BMP, GIF, PCX, and TGA image files as well.

[Spirit Hawk Leon]

Nice, I've wanted an update. Though no archive support. Has the author thought of ever implementing it?

[pensoffsky]

i thought about it but where is the advantage of having cbr and cbz support?
you can just unrar or unzip these files and everything works.
just to mention it, the precaching works only with jpeg and png, this feature is relatively new, i have to tweak it a lot

[ytsejam1138]

I wish it had archived support as well. However, if you don't feel like unarchiving the files on a PC. You can always use Tipster's Unzip/UnRar utility. It works great with .cbz/.cbr as well. You can download it here: TipsterUnzipUnrar03.zip

[Spirit Hawk Leon]

Well i'm pretty sure it takes longer to transfer multiple files than just one file that contains them all. Not sure if it compresses that much, but still...

[transce08]

I haven't tried this yet but the last version was an excellent application and the best of it's kind that I have tried for PSP. It's good to see it's still being updated. Thanks.

[TuncaCeleste|]

Yes! I've been longing for an update for quite some time now.. great GREAT app. What I like the most of PEP Viewer is the smooth scrolling through the image AND the awesome resize algorithm it uses.

Keep on updating it, pensoffsky!

Cheers.

[mechagodzilla]

Nice work! I enjoy this app, but I too would like it to read archived files. It would be easier to just transfer a CBR than unzip it then transfer... But thats just a suggestion.

Other than that its a great app! Keep it up.

[MjW]

Nice to see the application out. Good job man


Compressed archive support would be a nice feature to have since the image transfer is faster.
But in the end its all about reading the comics and the experience you gain through it
so if cbr/cbz support can be added on the psp without sacrificing image quality and/or lessening the reading experience then be my guest, if not.. then no thank you.

[gsk]

Very Nice. Love the features (mp3 especailly), speed and GUI, stylish. And the zoom box is excellent. Though the file bowsing is alittle slow as theres no 'Up One Directory' button, or cycle back to the top when you get to the last file in a folder.

Also... another vote for cbr support. Quicker transfers, saves space, and for those that have all their comics in that format, its a pain having to extract a series for example - I've been re-reading Watchmen (for the 100th time) using PSPComic via IRShelll, which is in 12 seperate folders for each chapter - it would have been a pain extracting each one.

It cant hurt to add the feature can it? For those that want to use them But anyway great program, look forward to any updates.

[MjW]

Originally Posted by gsk

Though the file bowsing is alittle slow as theres no 'Up One Directory' button, or cycle back to the top when you get to the last file in a folder.

When on file browser pressing left or right d-pad it moves 5 selections up or down, pressing L-trigger or R-trigger it moves to the first or last selection.
First selection is the 'Up One Directory' button.

[gsk]

Ah L/R button great. And yeah I knew about the ... just was thinking about a shortcut button for it. Cheers.

[parsifal968]

.cbr .cbz NEEDED!

[Ziggy530]

Amazing, I love how smooth it is and I'm glad the size restriction is gone. The only thing I would add is cbr/cbz support since it's faster to transfer a single file than multiple ones, but other than that, it's a solid program.

[AzN_PlaYEr]

Originally Posted by parsifal968

.cbr .cbz NEEDED!

While I do agree with the others about achieve reading features, I just want to say Thanks so much for this app. I use it all the time for my huge manga collection, and has never crashed or failed me yet.
Don't get me wrong, after you iron out all of the bugs and add what you feel is appropriate for PEP Viewer, then you can start expanding to archives. I'd like it but I can still live without it. Just do what you feel is best for the program.

--AzN_PlaYEr

[NeonBox]

yea i was kinda holding back by one version just so i didn't have the size issue because it was causing all kinds of problems because alot of my comics and and even more of the mangas have dual pages in one file and that didn't like them

but great app intend to try this version out when i get a chance been using this since it was first released

[steelsheen]

ok, i finally got this to work with my psp slim (with the help of e-Loader) but it didnt say how/ where to place my comics/ jpegs so that the pepviewer can see it. i'm looking at the pepviewer interface and the FILES part is empty, but i have comics (both in folders and cbr files) in my psp.

can anybody give me a clue here? where am i supposed to place my comics so that pepviewer can see them?

[ghostENVY]

Holy God this was way back in 05. Thanks for updating it!

[Archaemic]

...have you tried PSP/PHOTO?
Also, PePViewer can't do CBRs. If you want something that can do CBRs, check out PSPComic.

[Toransu_Purei]

Originally Posted by steelsheen

ok, i finally got this to work with my psp slim (with the help of e-Loader) but it didnt say how/ where to place my comics/ jpegs so that the pepviewer can see it. i'm looking at the pepviewer interface and the FILES part is empty, but i have comics (both in folders and cbr files) in my psp.

can anybody give me a clue here? where am i supposed to place my comics so that pepviewer can see them?

You can place jpegs anywhere on the memory stick (the navigator lets you browse everything) but comics need to be in folders and in jpeg format in order for you to see them. I dont believe PEP can read cbrs - you might want to try pspcomic for that.

[steelsheen]

Originally Posted by Toransu_Purei

You can place jpegs anywhere on the memory stick (the navigator lets you browse everything) but comics need to be in folders and in jpeg format in order for you to see them. I dont believe PEP can read cbrs - you might want to try pspcomic for that.

thanks man . i kinda felt my way through it. i guess i could keep my comics in one place after all (preferably in the default PSP picture folder).

Originally Posted by Archaemic

...have you tried PSP/PHOTO?
Also, PePViewer can't do CBRs. If you want something that can do CBRs, check out PSPComic.

actually the reason i signed up here was for your PSPComic . i posted in the PSPComic thread (v0.9.9) yesterday but for some strange reason my post disappeared . anyway, i'll repost in your thread again

[boba]

Could someone mirror this link to a different upload site?
Rapidshare doesn't let me download the file.

[FaT3oYCG]

here you go

LINK

[boba]

Thanks mate.