VideoNow Player

This program is essentially a PC player for VideoNow discs. It has been tested with rips of the original black and white discs, color discs, and XP discs + regional variants.

The program supports opening standalone .WAV files ripped from the disc, a .cue file for a full CD rip, It also supports playing back discs from the drive but I only own one real disc I was able to test it with. I did test it with a burnt  XP disc and it seemed to work fine. And yes, custom VideoNow crap seems to work as well, I don't know why it wouldn't. This is a 64-bit program and has only been tested on Windows 10. I don't know how to port it to Not-Windows OS™ nor do I know if 32 bit is good enough for the live decoding junk so please don't ask.

The green theme is based on the VideoNow Color FX player I own. It's a piece of shit that I think is starting to die because it struggles to read my Jimmy Neutron disc and no longer reads burnt discs but at least it looks cool. Custom themes coming at a later date. Yes, I know the GUI looks like shit. Eventually I want to make it look nicer and more mid 2000s-ish especially with custom button shapes.

This is possible thanks to the existing VideoNow disc decoding info posted by Marcos Del Sol Vives, saramibreak who created PVDTools, and VideoNowDude who originally documented the VideoNow Color crap over 20 years ago. Simple DirectMedia Layer is used for rendering. A fixed version of PVDTools source and its exe that properly decodes all 3 formats correctly, to my knowledge, is included. So yknow, the fixed decoding stuff is available for non player use.

The interactive side of the VideoNow XP discs plays back since its just the same video content but there is NO actual function to interact with them with the button prompts it asks for. I have no idea how the fuck they work so call it a WIP if even possible.

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Possible to-dos:

Custom themes

Interactive XP content buttons

Disc ripping wizard

Direct video conversion

Properly stop non VideoNow WAV files from being opened

Fix potential issues with BW decoding that might be caused by corrupted rips being read incorrectly

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THERE IS NO COPYRIGHTED CONTENT INCLUDED WITH THIS PROGRAM. YOU MUST SOURCE YOUR OWN VIDEONOW DISCS. AKA: Pls no sue

The VideoNow logo and branding is owned by Hasbro, SpongeBob SquarePants is owned by Nickelodeon, Clifford's Puppy Days is owned by Scholastic, and That's My Baby is owned by Animal Planet, which I am not associated a single fucking fraction with any of these entities pictured in the screenshots.