Recording via optical in - sample rate 44,1 khz or 48 khz

[pabouk]

- do I have to visit the friend with the PC or can I do it from the Mac?

No. You just need to extract an archive to the disk in the player.

It's not easy for a rookie to differ between the terms "Daily Build", "Bleeding Edge" and a CVS.

Bleeding edge and CVS builds are the same. They are built automatically whenever a developer changes the Rockbox code. The change is called commit.

Daily builds are virtually the same but they are made only once per day and they are archived for one month. The developers should also ensure that the Rockbox code is functional (when there is a serious bug introduced by a recent change) before the daily built is made (about 5:00 UTC).

I recommend you trying the CVS build unless it is broken.

In the root of the H140 drive there is a file named rockbox.iriver dated 1st Oct 2006, 7:09.

Is it enough just to replace the old one with the new one?

Overwrite the rockbox.iriver file and the .rockbox directory on your player. The .rockbox directory is probably hidden by default on Mac OS X. In the command line you can list hidden files and directories using ls -a but I do not know how to list them in the GUI.

[perjak]

That was great help! Thanks.

I want to save the config file (settings). I go to Manage Settings, Write .cfg file. I get a screen with the settings, BUT CAN'T FIND OUT HOW TO SAVE the damned file.

It's not in the RockBox manual.

Best from Per

[pabouk]

I am glad to hear that it was helpful

What you get after selecting the "Write .cfg file" item is the Virtual Keyboard. To save the .cfg file you have to confirm the filename by pressing Play.

Unfortunately in the manual there is not a link to the Virtual Keyboard description from the Manage Settings menu description.

[perjak]

I believe I tried all buttons and combinations - incl. Play - several times. Got confused, ran through manual like a mad.

Obviously one have to wait some seconds before it saves.....

Thanks for relieving my confusion  

One have to learn something every day....

Per

[perjak]

This is strange!

I got this
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I read it (thanks!!) and spotted a typo in my previous post. I edited that, saved, and suddenly petur's very helpful reply was gone

What has happened?

Per

[petur]

I read it (thanks!!) and spotted a typo in my previous post. I edited that, saved, and suddenly petur's very helpful reply was gone

What has happened?

well, I was just being silly and used my powers to hide it

I popped in during work, saw your question without seeing that I was on page 1/2 and answered. Then I saw what I did, see the answer was already there and decided to remove my own post again as it was just out of place there.

[Arni]

yesterday I tried the 7.november build on my H140 and recorded 50min from my dvd-recorders optical out into the iriver´s optical in.
all was fine, no problems at all.

only 1 question:
the displayed sample rate on the recording screen was  WAV/64k Why 64k when my panasonic dvd recorder puts out an PCM audio signal when recording at Panasonic´s XP-mode?
Of course I checked the Panasonic´s Audio setup before I recorded the concert from TV to make sure the output will be as PCM.

I recorded the show while the panasonic was playing back the concert.

thx
arni

[hellokitty]

Hi everybody!

Yesterday I recorded 2:30 h from my digital satellite receiver with automatic timesplit at 2:00 h. Everything worked just fine (48 khz/16bit).

Daily build: 20061109

Finally I can use bookmarking in .txt-files again and record via optical in!

Thank you very much!

[perjak]

Hello again

I updated to the build of 20061207.

Yesterday I recorded a DAT tape - recorded in 48kHz/16bit - to my H140. To my surprise the recorded file showed up in Cool Eddie as 64kHz and sounds a bit 'Donald Duck' like. It is easy to "Adjust" the recording to 48kHz, but what is wrong  

Last time I tried - with an older build from around 20061001 - the recorded 48kHz file showed up as 44.1kHz and sounded 'slow and lazy'.

Regards from Per in Denmark

[hellokytty]

Hi,

you have to enter the recording screen after you plugged the optical cable into the player (and of course there has to be "red light"). If you do so the recording screen will "read" the data coming in. It should now say 48k - and sound allright.

If you first enter the recording screen and then plug the cable it'll say 64k which causes the strange sound.

In the recording menu you should choose "same as source" - then it'll work like described above.

Good luck!

[perjak]

Great help!

Solved now.

Thanks a million.

Per

[jhMikeS]

I want to resolve this at some point and make it more friendly. The CPU can fire off interrupts or at least recording can check incoming samplerates while prerecording/waiting and switch when the cable is plugged. As for switching while recording, possibly. Rather a small thing to tell the encoder to do something else. I could probably never guarantee a gapless split in that case or that some samples of the incorrect rate will never make it to the current file or next.