Cd/DVD image support

[drtoxic]

Hello. This is my first post to the forum.

I am writing with a new and (maybe) odd concept for the iPods with big storage.

I have an iPod video 5g that has recently lost it's audio-out. I might be able to resolve this, but still use it to hold my extra data (like an 80gb pendrive). What I just thought of when I was searching for my USB DVD drive to reinstall a net book, I thought it would be a good idea to write an app for the iPod that allows a daemon-tools-like service, where the iPod appears as a USB DVD drive to mount images on.

Firstly, this would prove faster (access time and average read speed), and secondly, for peeps that do t want to carry cd/dvd's and multiple pendrives and stuff.

Unfortunately I'm no coder, so I wouldn't know how to do this. I am able to test this if someone tries to do it.

It would be nice to see at least a couple of formats working (iso, mdf (alcohol))but will settle for just iso.


Regards,
Drtoxic
Post Merge: April 14, 2011, 09:40:56 AMIt has just occured to me that the largest file on fat32 is down at 3gb, so a possibility to have image parts would be good (though challenging for programming) such as (file.rar; file.part1) but with Isos, which would induce pc-software, too. Sorry if this is a pain-in-the-hide request, and I understand if you tell me to take my idea, go forth and ...well, you get it.
Post Merge: April 14, 2011, 09:43:10 AMSorry, I meant to type 'split the iso files, such as rar example'. iPod touch 4g screen is too small. Lol.

[saratoga]

You mean something like this:

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SummerOfCode2011#USB_CD_emulation

[drtoxic]

Yes.

Apologies for failing to find it. I assume theres no ETA at this point in time.

[gevaerts]

I assume theres no ETA at this point in time.

There's no ETA for *anything* in rockbox

[saratoga]

Yes.

Apologies for failing to find it. I assume theres no ETA at this point in time.

You can check back in a couple months to see if anyone gets it as a GSOC project, and then if they get anywhere. 

[drtoxic]

I assume theres no ETA at this point in time.

There's no ETA for *anything* in rockbox

this is understandable.
Post Merge: April 15, 2011, 04:26:55 AM

Yes.

Apologies for failing to find it. I assume theres no ETA at this point in time.

You can check back in a couple months to see if anyone gets it as a GSOC project, and then if they get anywhere. 

I would love to see this implemented. it will save on carrying around bootdisks that become scratched and unusable.

[JohnP]

(Yes, I do want to post this, despite the thread not being updated for more than 120 days )

Have you seen this ? :
http://renosite.com/details.html

It started as a teensy-project, but was then ported to the evk1104 development-board.
Source-code is available for use !