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Rockbox Player - Project to design and build a Free/Open hardware audio player
Llorean:
Rockbox is not based on Linux nor is it designed to be a PDA. It might be handy to take a step back and learn more about Rockbox if you're interested in designing hardware for it.
Llorean:
Rockbox already supports recording to MP3, WAV, and Lossless Wavpack (as long as the hardware would support PCM recording, and has a fast enough processor to run the encoders). Because Wavpack is lossless, it can then be converted on the host computer to any other format the user wants.
Rockbox also already has MPEG-2 video playback, that runs effectively (24fps fullscreen) on a dual-core 80mhz ARM target at 220x176 resolution (one core is used for video, the other for audio decoding at the moment).
casainho:
--- Quote from: friendlyzookeeper on April 01, 2008, 07:25:03 PM ---Is this going to be a pda right now or you want to just get mp3 to play?I'm familiar with Atmel and loading linux on a pda (bootstrap).
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friendlyzookeeper, did you read the page of the project? At the beginning of the page, as the first objective, you can read: "Make a good quality hardware audio player and recorder;" - So, It will not be a PDA!!
However, the project can change to get It commercial possible.
If you are familiar with bootstrap and Atmel MCUs, can you give an help to make the bootloader for the AT91SAM9260?? -- my first objective is to make a LED flashing in the RockboxPlayerPrototype hardware.
Thank you.
00christian00:
Casainho,add some smilie once a while otherwise it seem you are scolding him ;D
I doubt you were doing it,since you are asking for help,but it's really easy to be misunderstood while writing.
casainho:
--- Quote from: 00christian00 on April 02, 2008, 07:54:13 AM ---Casainho,add some smilie once a while otherwise it seem you are scolding him ;D
I doubt you were doing it,since you are asking for help,but it's really easy to be misunderstood while writing.
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I am very limited in english :-( - for example, I add to look in dictionary what means "scolding":
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scold
I just want to make happen this idea of Free/Open hardware audio recorder/player for use with Rockbox. I do not want to cause any problems and I am not looking to get any.
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