This is the beginning of the readme file of the SMS project (under AFL) :
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 Created by Eugene Plotnikov <e-plotnikov@operamail.com>
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Introduction
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Simple Media System (SMS) is a result of my curiosity about Sony's Playstation2,
MIPS, DivX and MP3. My original goal was to create a simplest DivX player able
to play good resolution movies at good frame rate on the unmodded PS2 without
any extra equipment such as HDD and network adapter. Why "system"? Just because
having only a player program is not enough. Since PS2 is forced to ignore "illegal"
disks, I've took an idea of Drakonite with his UMCDR and developed my own "UMCDR".
(I called it CDDAFS). It just stores data on CD audio disk, which can be read on
(I hope) any PS2. So this is a first component of SMS. Second component is a PC
program that makes cue/bin files in order to burn such a disk. And, finally, comes
a player program itself. This system is not complete yet, but it can play DivX movies
with sound at good frame rate already. Player's base is a famous ffmpeg project.
I took just some parts of it (DivX 5XX and MP3) and made some modifications specific
to PS2 hardware. I've tested it with a couple of DivX/XviD movies with different
screen resolutions and encoding methods and it seems to be working. So, I've decided
to put all this stuff to the CVS at ps2dev in hope that it could be interesting for
PS2 enthusiasts who use it as base for their development. This "document" provides
basic info about SMS.

