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scharkalvin:
I'm wondering what people here think is the best player to buy for the purpose of running Rockbox.  This would be a balance of available features on a given player with cost and availability.  Since most hardware seems to become discontinued before a given port is completed we are aiming at a moving target!  A search on ebay shows that there are plenty of ipods available (though the most desirable ones would be the 4g color/photo and the 5g video ones).  A dark horse in this race might be the gigabeat players, but there aren't as many available on ebay and the prices tend to be higher.
Anybody out there with some opinions on this?

bluebrother:
This completely depends on what you want to get -- do you want recording, optical output, color display, fm radio, etc.? Not all features are available combined. Check http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/BuyersGuide -- and if you want advice you'd better state what functionality you want to get first.

scharkalvin:
Thanks for the link, I'll look at it.
I agree one needs to know what one wants out of the player.
I am interested in hearing about availability of the various supported players and
how well they actually work.  Thanks!

Mostly I'd like the ability to play most digital music formats (mp3, ogg, flac, wav, etc) and it seems rockbox can do that on ANY platform.   I'd prefer a color LCD screen so that most of the game plug ins would work, along with being able to display video clips.
Not all players with color LCD's are readable with the backlight off.  (The Sansa is guilty of this, I think the gigabeat IS readable with the light out).

BTW is it possible to import youtube videos into rockbox?  I assume a workable flv to mpeg converter would be required.  What works for this under linux?  Or would it be possible to write a rockbox plug in that would play flv's natively?

LambdaCalculus:

--- Quote from: scharkalvin on October 04, 2007, 09:07:50 AM ---Not all players with color LCD's are readable with the backlight off.  (The Sansa is guilty of this, I think the gigabeat IS readable with the light out).

--- End quote ---

According to the Gigabeat owners on these forums, the Gigabeat's screen is completely black with the backlight off. The only DAPs you can still sort of read the LCD on with the backlight off are the iPod line (video, nano, and Color).

GodEater:
That's the colour LCDs you mean.

I have no problem reading any of the greyscale LCD screens with or without backlight.

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