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My first experience with Rockbox
AlexP:
--- Quote from: rockbox-newbie on June 13, 2007, 06:09:11 AM ---Is there a way to request features for Rockbox?
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Click the link marked Feature Requests on the left of this and every page.
--- Quote from: rockbox-newbie on June 13, 2007, 06:09:11 AM ---Maybe i encourage someone to write a simple pdf or html viewer, or TV-out support.
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Sure anything is possible. PDF and HTML viewers would be 'easier', as we have no knowledge of any of the chips in the iPod (including the TV out/Broadcom decoding chip) - all work has been done by reverse engineering or by using datasheets for similar but not identical chips that are available. Either way, it is non-trivial.
--- Quote from: rockbox-newbie on June 13, 2007, 06:09:11 AM ---I also have a cool idea. Well, an accessory that allows connecting keyboard to iPod does not exist, but it can be designed,right? A homemade microcontroller based device which converts PS/2 keyboard protocol to iPod remote protocol, which then is recognized by a driver embedded into Rockbox and allows composing texts.
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You would first need to write a driver for the apple remote protocol.
rockbox-newbie:
I tried to open .tap files. Zxbox starts loading the file, but it's very, very slow.
If someone will ever want to write iPod remote driver, the protocol description is here: http://www.maushammer.com/systems/ipod-remote/ipod-remote.html
saratoga:
--- Quote from: rockbox-newbie on June 13, 2007, 06:37:07 AM ---I tried to open .tap files. Zxbox starts loading the file, but it's very, very slow.
If someone will ever want to write iPod remote driver, the protocol description is here: http://www.maushammer.com/systems/ipod-remote/ipod-remote.html
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Thats how you write a program to talk to the Apple OS. Since we don't use the Apple OS, its not really useful.
GodEater:
--- Quote from: BigBambi on June 13, 2007, 06:23:07 AM ---Sure anything is possible. PDF and HTML viewers would be 'easier'
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Easier perhaps - but neither of these are new feature requests, they come up all the time, and so far no-one's started either - because they're not easy. HTML in its many incarnations is not that easy to parse, especially because a lot of it is so badly written. Modern internet browsers (which have *enormous* code trees) have been written to try to show what the author meant, not what he actually ended up writing.
A PDF viewer is probably not that much easier, although I believe most PDF generators tend to stick to the rules a lot more than HTML authoring systems do. Acrobat, evince, xpdf and the like are all pretty large programs - and you've got to bear in mind, the formats they're designed to show are supposed to be viewed on a large computer monitor, not a tiny DAP screen.
In other words, as I've said before on the subject - don't hold your breath. :)
AlexP:
--- Quote from: GodEater on June 13, 2007, 11:20:54 AM ---
--- Quote from: BigBambi on June 13, 2007, 06:23:07 AM ---Sure anything is possible. PDF and HTML viewers would be 'easier'
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Easier perhaps - but neither of these are new feature requests, they come up all the time, and so far no-one's started either - because they're not easy. HTML in its many incarnations is not that easy to parse, especially because a lot of it is so badly written. Modern internet browsers (which have *enormous* code trees) have been written to try to show what the author meant, not what he actually ended up writing.
A PDF viewer is probably not that much easier, although I believe most PDF generators tend to stick to the rules a lot more than HTML authoring systems do. Acrobat, evince, xpdf and the like are all pretty large programs - and you've got to bear in mind, the formats they're designed to show are supposed to be viewed on a large computer monitor, not a tiny DAP screen.
In other words, as I've said before on the subject - don't hold your breath. :)
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I know, that's why I said easier and I put it in quotes. It wasn't me who requested them, and I was trying to give the OP some idea of why this was not likely to happen in a rush. I'm also aware of all you wrote above, it's not me who needs telling.
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