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esper256:
OK, hear me out. Obviously you wouldn't want to replace your phone's firmware with the rockbox firmware. But what about compiling rockbox as an application to go on top of windows mobile 5 or 6

There are currently no real good media playing solutions for WM. There are a few programs that play mp3s. A few play OGGs. Nobody has the codec support that rockbox has, or the great user interface features. Can any more experienced rockboxer weigh in on how difficult it would be instead of porting all the hardware centric stuff to instead just implement the lower level APIs using the MS SDK for windows mobile. They all run on ARM, and I assume RockBox already runs on ARM right?

Feel free to tell me my idea sucks.

LambdaCalculus:
Rockbox as an app is being discussed here:

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=15139.0

What we need is SDL for the Windows Mobile platform.

Microsoft's SDKs? Not happening.

esper256:
Thanks Lambda. Sorry didn't manage to find that thread.

Apparently there might be home for SDL on WM.
http://www.libsdl.org/faq.php?action=listentries&category=4#40

Does RockBox really use SDL?

saratoga:

--- Quote from: esper256 on February 14, 2008, 06:30:54 PM ---

Does RockBox really use SDL?

--- End quote ---

Yes, though honestly if someone were really interested, I don't see why they couldn't port it to some native WM api.

JdGordon:
I havnt had much finding info on getting sdl to compile for WM, but I have found ceGCC which supposedly woulld let you compile sdl apps for it, but havnt had much luck with tthat yet.

IF someone points me in the right direction to get sdl compingg for WM then ill do the rockbox code needed for proper rockbox-as-app which has been requested for a while.

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