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rockbox network support (via usb)?

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bluebrother:

--- Quote from: fixed on September 03, 2006, 11:17:12 AM ---i'd just love a way to be able to use my iaudio as a network mp3 player pointed at the huge stack of music i've got network-available!

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This won't ever be possible.
USB is handled via hardware, as you can find on the DataSheets wiki page by a controller by Cypress. This controller is the USB-to-ATA bridge. As this is a hardware controller it can't be reprogrammed, thus you won't ever be able to make your player a network device.

The only option you have left is to buy a cheap PC that does the network stuff and simply mounts the player as UMS device. Btw, there are even routers out there that can do so with the use of 3rd party firmware.

Bagder:

--- Quote from: bluebrother on September 03, 2006, 02:15:08 PM ---This won't ever be possible.
USB is handled via hardware, as you can find on the DataSheets wiki page by a controller by Cypress. This controller is the USB-to-ATA bridge.

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No no no. This guy has an X5. It has a USBOTG chip with no data sheets nor docs available, and sure it might indeed be possible to write weirdo USB network drivers for it. At least I don't think we can rule that out for sure until we know heaps more about it.

bk:
However the X5 has a USB 1.1 host controller, which may not provide enough bandwidth to implement network music streaming.

Bagder:
AFAIK, USB 1.1 does some 12mbit/sec (at least in theory) and I think most people with 12mbit internet connections still consider streaming possible...

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: Bagder on September 03, 2006, 05:53:46 PM ---No no no. This guy has an X5. It has a USBOTG chip with no data sheets nor docs available, and sure it might indeed be possible to write weirdo USB network drivers for it. At least I don't think we can rule that out for sure until we know heaps more about it.

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But USBOTG works as USB host -- and when he wants to connect to the PC the USB host is the PC. As USB is host centric and each USB bus has exactly one host controller I can't think of any way how this should work.
Except for the fact that the USBOTG chip could be programmed as a usb device (which I doubt a bit). Or possibly by using one of those usb-to-usb-via-network cables. But for a direct connection from USBOTG to PC?
Anyway, it seems _really_ unrealistic to me.

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