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SanDisk Sansa c200 v2

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Bagder:
Yeah, I've summarized the situation, as I mentioned in my blog earlier today:

http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2007/11/27/sansa-v2-and-view-roundup/

Btwizt:
Woot my firmware donation got put up on a blog. I rally dont get why the original developers at teh companies are so secretive about this. You would think that since tey dont avhe to give support for rockbox and its features and the fact it offers extra functionality that tehy would want to facilitate the open source coders.

Llorean:
Read how many people attempted to put Rockbox on their e200s, didn't follow the directions because they "assumed" you were supposed to do an extra step, got their e200 in a state too difficult for them to recover, and lied to get a warranty replacement.

Due to dishonest people, Rockbox doesn't exactly reduce the support costs necessarily.

sprith:
As for capabilities, I do know that the video format for the e200v2 is different.  The SanDisk firmware on the e200v2 supports Divx video (MPEG-4) in the .avi format instead of the MJPEG .mov files.  I'm not sure what the limits are to allowing the video to play; I can't get any video to play that isn't converted with the SMC software.  Presumably these changes affect the c200v2 as well, though I haven't read anything about that specifically.

I think the listed processing power of the ARM922TDMI (in the v2's AS3525) and the one in the PP5022 (in the v1s) are both similar (200 MIPS?).  Whether there is some sort of hardware specific feature behind this video format change I don't know.

I saw a news item about Sandisk getting licensing rights for Divx on their devices some time ago, maybe they are just getting around to implementing a decoder in their firmware.

Btwizt:
well i never considered how stupid people could be . I guess when i messed mine up i did more research than jsut trying to toss Rockbox on mine. But still, the more capable and options their players ahve the more popular they become, and orckbox is a capability thats whould be seen as a plus.

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