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I want to get a player that rockbox supports, but which one?

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Chill:
In theory, could the firmware on the Archos units be adapted to transcode these other formats in real-time into MP3, before passing the MP3 data to the hardware decoder?  I know, I know - processor speed would be an obvious issue, as would the loss in quality that might arise out of such a transcoding approach.  Would more or less processor speed be needed to transcode to high bitrate MP3?

JonathanHull:

--- Quote from: Chill on October 28, 2005, 11:40:22 AM ---In theory, could the firmware on the Archos units be adapted to transcode these other formats in real-time into MP3, before passing the MP3 data to the hardware decoder?  I know, I know - processor speed would be an obvious issue, as would the loss in quality that might arise out of such a transcoding approach.  Would more or less processor speed be needed to transcode to high bitrate MP3?

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With as weak as the CPU in the Archos is, I doubt it would be a viable solution. Either it wouldn't be realtime, be way too low a bitrate, or suck up too much battery power, or a combination. I may be wrong though, the devs know better than I.

I would say, if you own an archos, just reencode your music on your computer.

Assimalyst:

--- Quote from: Slogra on October 28, 2005, 11:36:14 AM ---I will try to get my hands on a iriver H120/H140.

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They're pretty hard to find, manufacture was discontinued a while back. Some are still available at misticaudio http://www.misticaudio.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=4
and there's the buy/sell/trade forum at misticriver too http://www.misticriver.net/forumdisplay.php?f=97

Good luck, it's a great piece of hardware, especially when Rockboxed! ;D

JonathanHull:

--- Quote from: Assimalyst on October 28, 2005, 11:46:49 AM ---
--- Quote from: Slogra on October 28, 2005, 11:36:14 AM ---I will try to get my hands on a iriver H120/H140.

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They're pretty hard to find, manufacture was discontinued a while back. Some are still available at misticaudio http://www.misticaudio.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=4
and there's the buy/sell/trade forum at misticriver too http://www.misticriver.net/forumdisplay.php?f=97

Good luck, it's a great piece of hardware, especially when Rockboxed! ;D

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And there is always ebay.

nobby:
jonathanhull is right, as the cpu in archoses is 20mhz, it could be as slow as 5x below realtime!

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