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why porting ? kinda waste of time and just have fun only
powerpan:
1. ROCK for android is fine, but not good for sound quality, nor open remote control interface
2. compared to other codecs, rockbox is the fastest one, a lot better then ffmpeg
3. yes, I agree specified hardware is kinda hard to make but what we could do if we could have this kind of hardware easily?
(our company is making this but too expensive like Linn's play, but I am the hardware designer, so I could submit a good enough hardware platform easily)
mess production is based on order. everything is possible, right?
4. raspberry pi could be wide spread, why not rockbox just work on it a little bit more?
professional player is not niche...
I mean if we could have a kinda of good platform, rockbox could be a lot better then ever!
saratoga:
--- Quote from: powerpan on September 11, 2013, 07:39:19 PM ---1. ROCK for android is fine, but not good for sound quality, nor open remote control interface
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Its really no different than just running it as firmware. And anyway, if you're talking about porting Android to a device, you can make any changes you want to it to accommodate a remote control interface or whatever.
--- Quote from: powerpan on September 11, 2013, 07:39:19 PM ---2. compared to other codecs, rockbox is the fastest one, a lot better then ffmpeg
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Yes of course, since we are optimized for ARM, but you can use our codecs on Android/linux too.
--- Quote from: powerpan on September 11, 2013, 07:39:19 PM ---4. raspberry pi could be wide spread, why not rockbox just work on it a little bit more?
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The raspberry pi has a pretty lousy DAC, its not really meant for audio. You can use a USB DAC with it, but that is much easier in Android/linux.
Basically, its a matter of effort. If you want to use things like networking you probably want a more complex operating system that uses things like virtual memory, preemptive multitasking, etc. You could hack them to work in rockbox, but its much easier to just port rockbox as an application to something like Android or linux and use the underlying OS for these functions.
powerpan:
function of rockbox firmware is limited
linux+rockbox codec is ok, but one thing to notice, android only supports 16bit output like rockbox original fixed to 16bit.
and any comments to a professional audio playback machine like squeeze box /sonos something? please not that's professional ones, not just low cost players.
saratoga:
--- Quote from: powerpan on September 11, 2013, 08:49:03 PM ---linux+rockbox codec is ok, but one thing to notice, android only supports 16bit output like rockbox original fixed to 16bit.
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If you're going to port Android to something, add support for a different bit depth while you're porting it. Or don't even use the Android apis, just talk to the linux bits directly.
Or don't even bother since I don't know of anyone ever making a portable device with >16 effective bits.
powerpan:
--- Quote from: saratoga on September 11, 2013, 09:27:28 PM ---
--- Quote from: powerpan on September 11, 2013, 08:49:03 PM ---linux+rockbox codec is ok, but one thing to notice, android only supports 16bit output like rockbox original fixed to 16bit.
--- End quote ---
If you're going to port Android to something, add support for a different bit depth while you're porting it. Or don't even use the Android apis, just talk to the linux bits directly.
Or don't even bother since I don't know of anyone ever making a portable device with >16 effective bits.
--- End quote ---
--------------most embedded linux limits to 16bit.
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