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Rockbox Player - Project to design and build a Free/Open hardware audio player
00christian00:
I pointed it out because i noticed many misunderstand you,so if you put some smiley it's more clear.
That website doesn't explain what "to scold" mean.
To scold mean telling someone that is action is wrong,like what a teacher would do with some children when they don't do homework for example.Sorry it's hard to explain in english.
casainho:
--- Quote from: 00christian00 on April 02, 2008, 10:36:53 AM ---I pointed it out because i noticed many misunderstand you,so if you put some smiley it's more clear.
That website doesn't explain what "to scold" mean.
To scold mean telling someone that is action is wrong,like what a teacher would do with some children when they don't do homework for example.Sorry it's hard to explain in english.
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Thank you Christian ;)
While I wait an answer from you, can you please tell us what are important things to convince your "friends running factories in china", to make this kind of Free/Open hardware? - sorry If I am asking information that should be secret.
I am asking this because of my curiosity, I did read a few messages about "Made in China", in the bunnie's blog - http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?cat=7 , one person working on the Chumby, assembled at China, another Open Source hardware:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby
Der Papst:
Just to throw in my 0.02$...
00christian00: I like both designs you linked to ;-)
casainho: Imo you souldn't focus too hard on a _pure_ audioplayer. If you look at current devices that do more than just audio (e.g. simple games and 2-3 different video formats) you'll notice that they have far far better battery runtimes than daps purely designed for audio.
Take the Cowon D2 as example (rockbox port being worked on). It supports various video codecs, has a nice and large LCD (320x240) and "Rated battery life: 52 hours for music, 10 hours for video" (linky). :-D
If this player should compete to other commercial player I wouldn't go below a resolutions of 220x176 (larger LCD means more space for a larger battery ;-)) and a SoC being able to handle MPEG4 with 30fps easily.
But i agree that a touchscreen isn't needed (though i wouldn't complain if there is one). ;-)
00christian00:
The first thing would be to let him see Rockbox.He was always busy these days and didn't had the chance to show him.I would leave the other guys out for now,because except this one they are all completely the opposite of tech geek,and explain the rockbox features will be a almost impossible task :D
Chumby is open source?!But it does use flash lite 3 which is all except open source.It's partially open i think
@Der Papst
Good,i am not the only one hehe.
Mpeg4 support is not present in rockbox.I don't know if someone could port ffmpeg or some other similar fast decoder.
casainho:
--- Quote from: Der Papst on April 02, 2008, 12:33:10 PM ---If you look at current devices that do more than just audio (e.g. simple games and 2-3 different video formats) you'll notice that they have far far better battery runtimes than daps purely designed for audio.
Take the Cowon D2 as example (rockbox port being worked on). It supports various video codecs, has a nice and large LCD (320x240) and "Rated battery life: 52 hours for music, 10 hours for video" (linky). :-D
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Simple because they were design for video and not audio! So they have a large and expensive battery. We want also a player that is small and cheap, and we get It reducing audio for 24 hours, for example - so we can have a battery less than half of that one, and cheaper. The money saved on that, can be put on good quality hardware for recording and playing.
--- Quote from: Der Papst on April 02, 2008, 12:33:10 PM ---If this player should compete to other commercial player I wouldn't go below a resolutions of 220x176 (larger LCD means more space for a larger battery ;-)) and a SoC being able to handle MPEG4 with 30fps easily.
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I think is a mistake to try compete with that kind of players, because market is flood with them and I think will be easy, quick(already done), to have Linux + some media player like VLC instead of making that on Rockbox. As soon as this devices get SoCs for video, they will also have large memories and batteries that can handle Linux.
But as we can see, portable players are quick getting media players, who will invest in good, only, portable audio players?
However, I think is best to have Free/Open hardware portable media player than nothing :)
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