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chaetophile:
Howdy! I use the iRiver H10 20Gig. Like many boxes, it has a design foible that Rockbox might be able to address.

The iPod's scrollwheel has the option, during playback, of scrolling through a track, which takes the place of ff/rw buttons. This is a wonderful idea, and makes audiobook listening so much more enjoyable. Long tracks get interrupted, and this feature make it possible to find your place in the track when resuming.

The iRiver's ff/rw buttons are slower than molasses in January in a JAR.
The iRiver has the touch-pad on the front, and it is only being used for volume and file-scrolling. Is there a way to make it scan through a track?

Llorean:
Have you tried Rockbox's fast-forward yet? It accelerates quite nicely for long files.

chaetophile:
I'm not actually using Rockbox yet, as it's not quite sorted for the H10. I like using the FM tuner. I am looking forward to losing the ugly firmware wallpapers! I shall overcome them with strange beauties.

Accelerating fast forward is a wonderful solution, thanks.
I was mostly disappointed to find that the iRiver's "river" was not used to its full advantage in the design. It seems such a glaring waste! I dislike Apple's
overproprietarinesses, but the iPod user-interface really is quite sweet.
Thanks for the answer!

keenerd:
You'll probably be more disappointed with Rockbox, then.

True. the radio does not work, but you can dual boot both firmwares when needed.  Otherwise its fairly stable and slick.  H10 users miss out on some of the latest and greatest plugins, and it the code base is not optimized for our processor at all.  So we lag a bit behind in plugins.  (Gameboy emulation is slow, mpeg video is playable as long as there is no audio track, and battery life is about 1/3 of stock firmware.  Btw, that is just listening to music with the screen off.  No fancy postwork like crossfeed or plugins.)

The bigger issue that you'll take immediate notice to is the complete lack of scrollpad support.  The pad is not direction sensitive.  It is divided into two zones, each zone acting as a plain button.  Even this is not done well, as there is no dead space between the two zones, and the *very* top of the scrollpad triggers as a down button press.

Optimally (IMHO) the scrollpad would be divided into three zones.  The top and bottom act as normal buttons, and the center space initiates scroll mode.  (If you've ever used the gsynaptics linux touchpad driver, you'll probably get what I mean.)  Scroll up/down and button up/down would both do the same thing, just scrolling would be faster.  Anyway, the scrollpad still has a very long way to go.

You may not mind this.  Rockbox's FF/RW buttons have tweakable acceleration values.  Tracks can be zipped through with great ease, making scrollpad navigation a little superfluous.

H10 20Gb

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: chaetophile on February 08, 2007, 03:42:34 PM ---I'm not actually using Rockbox yet, as it's not quite sorted for the H10.
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Do you really consider it a good idea to give advices for Rockbox if you haven't used it yourself yet? I think that's a bit strange idea.


--- Quote from: keenerd on February 09, 2007, 08:19:14 AM ---The pad is not direction sensitive.  It is divided into two zones, each zone acting as a plain button.  Even this is not done well, as there is no dead space between the two zones, and the *very* top of the scrollpad triggers as a down button press.
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Nobody has found a good way to do it better yet. it's not done "not good" because nobody cares (your post sound a bit like implying that) but it's simply not that easy. If you have a good idea how to read reliable values from the touchpad please tell.

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