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adobe flash opened up, does this affect rockbox?
petvirus:
just read this:
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/04/adobe-drops-lic.html
does this mean that rockbox can now get a flash player?
LambdaCalculus:
Only if someone wants to work on one.
petvirus:
do i understand correctly, that in order to get flash on any given supported player, one would need to write the code for that cpu, or can generic code be written and then ported to each player with "less" work then writing it from scratch?
Strife89:
--- Quote from: petvirus on October 17, 2008, 11:48:27 AM ---just read this:
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/04/adobe-drops-lic.html
does this mean that rockbox can now get a flash player?
--- End quote ---
Not necessarily. Flash is still resource-intensive, and it will take a good deal of work just to port a Flash player to Rockbox to begin with.
While this is not an absolute, the most certain way to see a Flash player on Rockbox is to port it yourself. But even then, there are other obstacles to get pass before it has a shot at showing up in SVN.
karashata:
--- Quote from: petvirus on October 17, 2008, 11:54:15 AM ---do i understand correctly, that in order to get flash on any given supported player, one would need to write the code for that cpu, or can generic code be written and then ported to each player with "less" work then writing it from scratch?
--- End quote ---
Most of Rockbox's code is written in C, with assembly thrown in where it marks a definite improvement in performance and bin size, if I'm understanding things correctly. I would imagine if you could write a flash player in C, the cross compilers for each target's processor would compile it such that it would be understood by that target's processor. If you have any knowledge of assembly code for the various architectures the DAPs Rockbox supports, it may not hurt to use it where appropriate, if it helps improve the player's performance and/or reduces the bin size (without compromising performance).
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