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MP4 Playing Issue on Toshiba Gigabeat MEGF40

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Llorean:
Actually, MTP is unlikely to be looked at. MTP is a windows only thing as it is.

Why not instead write a better syncing app for the PC? For example, one that stores a small device.info file in the root of the device containing a list of supported formats. You could, on first sync, tick of supported formats, and on all future syncs it could use the widely available ffmpeg and other common tools to convert files to one of the supported formats.

One of the main goals of Rockbox is to *enable* UMS use of these devices, and having multiple USB modes means someone has to implement other USB formats. MTP is mostly undocumented extensions on a different standard (PTP) and there's not any good open implementations of it anyway. The job of "syncing and transferring" takes place on the PC anyway, so figuring out issues with it is, generally speaking, the job of coming up with a better PC program.

By "P4S" I assume you mean "Plays For Sure"? Please don't abbreviate things outside of the absolute most common abbreviations (for example, people are more likely to know MTP than what it stands for), due to our multilingual nature, and our blind users, many people depend on machine translation of one form or the other, and these become even harder for those users to figure out. Plays for Sure is actually a DRM standard, not a transfer protocol. (Technically it means "This media device has been tested by microsoft for a list of things including UI responsiveness, etc" but in the end it means "this device supports certain DRM standards applied to WMA files" and little else)

webtechy:
From a user perspective I would prefer something that works with what I use already, rather than requiring a separate app to be installed though really ...

GodEater:
You always have the option of going back to the original firmware then I guess.

Seriously, I can't think of a single person on the Rockbox team who'd be keen to see us start supporting MTP - we don't like it, we don't want it.

webtechy:
That's fair enough - it's your software after all :-)

Personally, I like it as I just plug the device in and in synchronizes my favourite and recently created mp3's etc. to my device (well, it does with my HTC phone anyway), rotates the music on the device (i.e. you have different stuff on there), and ensures there's always room left on your device, etc.

EDIT: Note, that's why I first installed RockBox as an attempt to see if it fixed the broken sync with WM11 which had stopped working with Toshiba firmware.

saratoga:

--- Quote from: Llorean on January 07, 2008, 08:45:15 AM ---Actually, MTP is unlikely to be looked at. MTP is a windows only thing as it is.

--- End quote ---

Well, theres libmtp on linux, which would be nice to support since various linux programs do use it.


--- Quote ---Seriously, I can't think of a single person on the Rockbox team who'd be keen to see us start supporting MTP - we don't like it, we don't want it.

--- End quote ---

I did propose it as a potential GSOC project.  I don't use either, but iTunes and MTP support would be nice so that we support common protocols on Windows, MacOS and Linux and integrate into various playback software programs (WMP, iTunes, foobar, winamp, amarok,etc).

That said, I prefer UMS, so while I'd like to see it, I'm certainly not interested in working on it.

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