Re: Ladies and gentlemen, we have sound on the RCA RC3000A digital boombox

2013-04-26 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 04/20/2013 08:50 PM, Boris Gjenero wrote: I now have flawless playback, including via the speakers. You rock! Congratulations!!! Linus

Re: GSoC 2013

2013-04-09 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 04/09/2013 10:29 AM, Thomas Martitz wrote: Am 08.04.2013 22:54, schrieb Frank Gevaerts: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:45:30PM -0700, Austin Appel wrote: So, I guess I will make this short: do we want to make the push to do GSoC again this year or not? So we did apply, but unfortunately we

Re: the Mach Speed mp3 players

2013-01-03 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 01/03/2013 04:35 PM, Scott Berry wrote: Hello there, I just got a Machspeed Eclipse device for Christmas. Can anyone give me some pointers how to find out about the OS they are using plus specs on processors and other items I might need to build Rockbox on this device? I am looking at

Re: Ladies and gentlemen, we have sound on Android/MIPS!

2012-06-13 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 06/11/2012 09:33 PM, Frank Gevaerts wrote: I'm pleased to announced that Rockbox on my Ainol Novo 7 Paladin running Android 4.0.3 (ICS), which has an Ingenic JZ4770 MIPS CPU, successfully played its first track: Djungel, by Björn Stenberg Congratulations!!! Linus

Re: HWCODEC

2011-12-15 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 12/15/2011 02:50 AM, Boris Gjenero wrote: If developers want to retain HWCODEC support in the trunk, I can't complain about that. However, if the latest version is not the best choice, users should be told that. Also, in that case, the older version they're directed to should at least get bug

Re: Ladies and gentlemen, we have sound on the Sansa Fuze+

2011-10-19 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 10/18/2011 11:17 PM, Amaury Pouly wrote: I'm pleased to announced that my Sansa Fuze+ successfully played its first song: Black Eyed Peas - Doom Doom Pow I would like to thank all those who made this (long !) port possible, either by hacking or by testing ! There are still lots of things to

Re: Ladies and gentlemen, we have sound on HiFiMan HM-601.

2011-10-18 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 10/17/2011 10:11 PM, Andrew Ryabinin wrote: I'm announce it with some delay cause I didn't know about this tradition till now. The first time HM-601 played was on the 10.10.2011, but playback speed was little bit accelerated. The first time DAP played with normal speed was 13.10.2011. The

Re: Rockbox funding for Sansa Clip Zip

2011-09-26 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 09/24/2011 10:32 AM, Bertrik Sikken wrote: I wonder if the rockbox fund can pay for a Sansa Clip Zip, so I can do further rockbox development on this player. Of course!!! Linus

Re: Discussion regarding reordering the main/root menu

2011-08-29 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 08/28/2011 12:41 PM, Jonathan Gordon wrote: My view regarding debug is that there is nothing there that is actually useful once a port is up and running *or during development* when dealing with custom builds anyway so disabling that by default (but adding an easy configure item to enable it)

Re: jethead71: r30097...

2011-06-29 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 06/29/2011 08:37 AM, mai...@svn.rockbox.org wrote: Date: 2011-06-29 08:37:04 +0200 (Wed, 29 Jun 2011) New Revision: 30097 Log Message: Commit FS#12150 - Fully-functional audio mixer - and finally whip old limitations about playback of voice and other sounds when paused. Channels are

Re: Ladies and gentlemen, ...

2010-12-27 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 2010-12-27 22:36, Michael Sparmann wrote: ... we have sound on the iPod Classic! (also called iPod 6G/6.5G/7G sometimes) Holy cow! Congratulations!!! Stay tuned for the upcoming Rockbox port! This is really good news! Good work! Linus

Re: Ladies and Gentlemen we have a sound!

2010-11-28 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 2010-11-27 16:44, Marcin Bukat wrote: For thous that do not follow IRC logs I am proud to announce that MPIO HD300 just played it's first song - The Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love. Congratulations, Marcin! Linus

Re: coding style

2010-10-28 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 2010-10-28 10:00, Marcin Bukat wrote: I found this simple script usefull when hacking sources. Moving pieces of code, adding something, adding simple comments, to know what I am messing with, usually breaks 'coding style'. At the end I don have to manually ident my work but rather pass it

Re: rolling stable builds

2010-10-19 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 2010-10-19 05:17, Jonathan Gordon wrote: My view would be that any bugfix for a flyspray task would be a candidate to go in the stable branch. Fixes which are too fiddly to backport would probably miss out (or at that point we talk about a new minor stable build (but 3.7.3 - 3.8)). I think

Re: getting in early... the android apk plan?

2010-08-11 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 2010-08-11 03:20, Jonathan Gordon wrote: The other problem with this is when it comes time to do an update the whole thing needs to be downloaded again. Do we want android to be the only target which cant run the svn builds and users are forced to only use the builds we push to the market (or

Re: getting in early... the android apk plan?

2010-08-11 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
On 2010-08-11 10:37, Jonathan Gordon wrote: Right, but without some mechanism to load a newer build of rockbox (or a user build) it means than the android target can only run builds we release, which goes against the whole svn build system (imo). If a new build is pushed to the market every

Re: looking for connector

2009-11-23 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Marcin Bukat wrote: Hello all rockbox-dev. I am in process of porting rockbox to Mpio HD200 device. It is coldfire based DAP. It has some unpopulated 20 pin connector on PCB which I think is BDM connector. The problem I am facing is that I can't find supplier for needed 20pin raster 0.3mm SMD

Re: looking for connector

2009-11-23 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote: Give me your address and I'll send you one. Do you need anything more? Ehum, maybe I was too fast. Are you sure it is 0.3mm??? Linus

Re: H300 BDM connector (Was: Re: looking for connector)

2009-11-23 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
pondlife wrote: Slightly hijacking this thread, does the H300 BDM interface have a connector? I assumed it was a soldering job, but if it's pluggable, I plan to buy a wiggler! Unfortunately, the BDM connector on the H300 is not mounted, so you need to solder a ZIF connector to be able to

Re: looking for connector

2009-11-23 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Marcin Bukat wrote: I am terribly sorry. I measured pitch of the connector against lm339 on the photo and connector is standard 1.0 mm pitch. This one is easy to get. Sorry again. Anyway - Linus can You confirm H300 uses 20pin 1.0mm pitch connector - from photos it looks exactly the same as in

Re: Ladies and Gentlemen: we have SOUND! on Mini2440

2009-11-03 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Casainho wrote: Hi everyone, I am pleased to announce that the mini2440 can now play audio. The first track played was Dancing Queen - ABBA. Way to go! Congrats!!! Linus

Re: Buttons in Hold Mode

2009-10-23 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: In principle I have no problem with this assuming its disabled by default.. but I do object to this being accepted when customising the rec/spare buttons behavior was rejected... they are the same thing. I agree that having a Hold mode where certain buttons are allowed

Re: jdgordon: r21307 - trunk/apps

2009-06-17 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Bryan Childs wrote: I'm all for keeping the old behaviour thanks. I fully agree. I haven't found the splashes annoying at all. Linus

Re: how is strnatcmp aka Interpret numbers while sorting supposed to sort?

2009-03-19 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Paul Louden wrote: No, this isn't. This is having intuitive handling of numbers as normally written by people. People don't normally precede numbers with a 0 unless there's a specific reason to. I'd think that many files will have names with leading zeros, especially if they are copied from

Re: how is strnatcmp aka Interpret numbers while sorting supposed to sort?

2009-03-19 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Bryan VanDyke wrote: 1. Numbers sort before Non-numbers. - Leading zeros are striped. A leading zero on a zero is still zero. - 000 becomes 0. - Some of the code that has been used has trouble with this. 2. Lesser number before greater. - 1,2,3,4 etc 3. Anything else strcmp. Sounds simple and

Re: r20105: Enable USB mass storage on PP5020, PP5022 and PP5024 targets

2009-02-26 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Rene Peinthor wrote: Since USB is now enabled, on this PP targets, will the insert USB cable behavior also change? I mean that rockbox will be the default boot target then and not the OF? If not can someone post a patch to change the default to rockbox(or give me a hint for the lines to

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-10-31 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: Hey all, OK, I think this patch is finished and working so I want to commit it next week sometime... Going by the quick talk in IRC it doesn't look like there will be much complaints, but speak now if you want to... It gets my blessing. :-) Linus

Re: the sleep timer

2008-10-31 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
alex wallis wrote: hi list, I have just been having a few thoughts about the sleep timer. I was wondering, is there any interest in reviving patch 8630 to allow the last used value of the sleep timer to be saved to the cfg file? I asked about this some time ago, and nobody liked the idea, but I

Re: discussion regarding adding settings (PLEASE add your 2 cents)

2008-10-29 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Paul Louden wrote: That means less useful features should be considered critically even if they have small binsize costs, just because they're useful to only an exceptionally small group. They're a dilution of the total usefulness density. Let me chime in with my $0.02. I think that the

Re: Optimizing to functions for a plugin

2008-10-16 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Joseph Garvin wrote: There don't appear to be any builtin functions for converting strings to floats or longs, so I wrote a couple, but they're very very rough. We use sscanf() for that in Rockbox, but it doesn't support floats, since we don't use floating point calculations in this project.

Re: PP5020 IIS interrupt question

2008-09-09 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Lees, Christian wrote: I am writing a recording plugin for a Iriver H10. Since I need to be able to record at 96kHz and 24bit I've decided to not use the plugin api recording function. Are you absolutely sure that the PortalPlayer IIS can handle 24 bits 96kHz? I'm not so sure about that.

Re: my comments on meeting1

2008-07-02 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: always keeping track of bookmarks means more disk access. and that extra main menu entry... I thought it was enabled by default and would have no problems changing that default. Couldn't they be cached in memory and flushed at shutdown? Linus

Re: my comments on meeting1

2008-06-29 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
alex wallis wrote: Hi. Just wondering, where can I get this recording? I would be interested in having a listen if that would be ok. I would be interested in getting a sense of what devcon was like. http://www.rockbox.org/devcon2008/ Linus

Re: question about the menus in rockbox

2008-06-10 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
alex wallis wrote: Hi list, I was just wondering why in rb under settings the menu playback has the word settings spoken after it? as its in the settings menu, so surely its fairly obvious its settings, also, as far as i can tell none of the other menus have the name settings after them. It

Re: Settings as a plugin

2008-05-20 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: Yes, there would be a HUGE binary delta if the settings were moved to a plugin but this has been shot down before.. As far as I can see, we have very few targets where this would really matter. Sure, we could save 30-40Kb of code, but it would not give a measurable

Re: Header file policies

2008-04-27 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Bertrik Sikken skrev: It's not my intention to suddenly tear up the entire codebase but I'd like to take these guidelines into account when modifying code anyway, although 4) is basically essential IMO. I agree with all you wrote, and it's always good to keep things simple. However, do not

Re: Evil ads

2008-04-17 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonas Häggqvist wrote: This is absolutely one of the things I hate most about ads. Could we please add a huge ADS BELOW! WATCH OUT! sign above them or something? I understand that you may not like ads, but it's not like they are life threatening. Don't you think you are overreacting a bit

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-07 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
pondlife wrote: But not for my H300... I have the same 80GB drive as petur (I think, mine's a Toshiba MK8007GAH), and am happily using r14938M (modified, but I can't recall how - probably just the RTC alarm now you mention it). Hmmm, so it *might* be an issue with petur's device rather than a

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-06 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Matthias Mohr wrote: Unfortunately it seems that only Linus is able to do this - and it seems he doesn't have enough time or isn't in the mood to do it... The thing is that the current SVN bootloader still has issues with some hard drives, and I don't want to release a bootloader that doesn't

Re: building bootloader from source (h300)

2008-04-06 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Matthias Mohr wrote: If the risk of bricking my device isn't big (or if it's possible for me to reanimate a bricked H300) I would try to put a current SVN version of the bootloader on my device... That is the problem. You can't reanimate a bricked h300 without special equipment. Linus

Re: B#8753 Task opened by kousu: Plugging in headphones always unpauses--

2008-03-17 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: Hi all, It turns out noone in IRC is willing to admit they actually use this feature and we have agreed that either way makes sense (leaving the current behaviour or fixing it).. So, does anyone on this list have a strong feeling about this one? it should be a simple

Re: Nano 1G registers?

2008-02-14 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Andrew Wyer wrote: ( MOV R0, #0 ) -- is this loading the literal thats at 0x00; the power-on jump opcode? No, it isn't. It is loading the literal 0 into register R0. Write R0 to Base+0x14C -- Write R0 to Base+0x144 -- It means that it writes 0 to Base+0x14c and Base+0x144

Re: Power Efficiency Tradeoffs

2008-01-14 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Mike Holden wrote: But that's precisely what proportional means - linearly proportional! To be proportional, the two values have to be always at exactly the same ratio, such as y = x * 2. Well, it can also be exponentially or logarithmically proportional, as far as I know. Linus

Re: IDE to ZIF adapter available, Iriver with 80GB MK8009GAH

2008-01-04 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
john wrote: Whatever: A fully functional adapter is now available. This means at least two things. Firstly I will no longer try to develop one by myself. Secondly I would like to integrate the special 1k boundary adressing of the MK8009GAH drive into all platforms, that have a PATA connector

Re: question about lang files

2007-12-16 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
alex wallis wrote: But supposing the option isn't voiced in the first place. i'm guessing we can't just add entrys to the lang file. i mean for example if i want to add an entry so rockbox announces the option dump rom contents under debug i'm guessing you can't just add a string to the lang

Re: christian: r15632 - in trunk/firmware: . export

2007-11-16 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Christian Gmeiner wrote: I will fix this in of my next commits. Atm i am working to get a general interface for audiohw for software and hardware based players. Before I will commit my work on this part, I will update the wiki page and the corresponding patch id in tracker, so that everybody can

Re: customisable statusbar - how far do we want to take it?

2007-11-04 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: Apart from doing nothing, the bar minimum we can get away with is doing something similar to the list icons, where we just load a bmp strip with all the icons, so the order stays the same but the size and colours are changeable. I'm happy with that except, do we add the

Re: Iriver with 160GB drive

2007-10-30 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
john wrote: Looking at the market I see only the MK8009GAH/MK8010GAH (Should be identical or does only the MK8010GAH do the 1kb block transfers?), which is also build into the IPOD. The only other 80GB drive I know is the MK8007GAH. Maybe it is that type that works without problems, as it also

Re: Iriver with 160GB drive

2007-10-30 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
David Rothenberger wrote: I'm sure this is a stupid question, but can someone point me to some documentation that says the MK8009GAH is limited to 1kb blocks? The thing is that the drive only allows access on even sector boundaries, i.e 2 sectors at a time. So yes, it still has a sector size

Re: ColdFire-rockbox and GCC 4.2.1

2007-09-25 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Nils wrote: If you are interested in my patches I will post them somewhere for you. Please do. We have a patch tracker for exactly this purpose. http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/index.php?type=4 Linus

Re: ColdFire-rockbox and GCC 4.2.1

2007-09-25 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Nils wrote: And here is the tracker task :-) http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/7832 Thanks a lot. Now please remind me, what was the benefit of using 4.2.1 again? Linus

Re: IRC channel

2007-09-20 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Daniel Stenberg wrote: Splitting users from devs (even the distinction is wierd) will just risk that either users sit in a channel where not enough devs are so they won't get the help they seek, or they come to the dev channel to ask the questions since there's where the devs are etc. And I

Re: XML for language files

2007-09-20 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonas Häggqvist wrote: I still doubt translators will care much one way or the other, even if they were to edit the file by hand. For now, I'll go ahead and have a go at implementing genlang using this XML format. One additional question: is the XML parser module included in standard Perl? Or

Re: lack of responsiveness

2007-08-15 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
David wrote: There is a lack of responsiveness when skipping songs. I'm listening music, press next key and the hdd have to start up. The old songs is still playing. I've no info what happens, so I press next button again. I think this is quite confusing. I agree completely. The music should

Re: ihp120 software

2007-07-22 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Wayne E. Shevlin wrote: Hi there. I am trying to setup an I-river 140 and have tried to download the ihp120.txt software and get a dead link. Does anyone have another link or the software they can email me? There is no firmware file called ihp120.txt on the server. What exactly are you

Re: Iriver h340 for spare parts

2007-07-14 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Dave Wright wrote: Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right list to be posting this on, but anyway, I have an iriver h340 which doesn't seem to be working. I'm not sure what's wrong with the device, but I'm pretty sure it's the harddrive. If anyone is interested in this item for spare parts,

Re: compiling rockbox

2007-06-08 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
daniel dalton wrote: However When I tried to compile a build with no patches I got the following errors. The APE codec was missing from the source zip file. Try the 07-06-08 version. Linus

Re: Configurable buttons; was: Re: button changes from devcon, someone play evil dictator

2007-06-07 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Tapio Kelloniemi wrote: A file could look like this: The file format is not the problem. The implementation in the Rockbox code is. And handling all the support questions from users who don't know how to use this feature. The most difficult problem is that not all button combinations are

Re: 1 standard generic callback system

2007-06-05 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: Questions, comments? I think it sounds like a good idea. The implementation looks clean and simple. 1) Why this: +#define register_ata_idle_func(f) \ +register_event_callback(EID_ATA_DISK_SPINUP, (event_callback)f) Why not replace the calls in the ATA

Re: Interface fundamental proposition.

2007-05-29 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Paul Louden wrote: I think a very, very minor inconvenience (as I think this is) is not a high cost for actual consistency of the interface. If you only own one Rockboxed device, you couldn't care less if it is consistent with other Rockbox targets. You want it to work in the best and most

Re: Improving simulator

2007-05-10 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Christian Gmeiner wrote: But I am not a build system guru.. so somebody need to help out, if my idea of a simulator is wanted and accepted by the community and the developers. One major hassle with simulator builds are the plugins, and I don't see how a separate x86 target could help that. By

Re: Improving simulator

2007-05-10 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Christian Gmeiner wrote: To run the new created rockbox.x86 we need a special boot loader, which loads compiled code form x86 and executes it. Why would we need that? And how would this work with gcc? Wouldn't this cause some extra problems loading the correct symbol tables etc? Linus

Re: Improving simulator

2007-05-10 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Christian Gmeiner wrote: Hmm... good question ;) If I recheck it in my head then it will work without the bootloader. We create a normal executable and run it. Sounds good. All in all, I think this sounds like a good idea. Unfortunately, the target tree concept only applies to the firmware

Re: Make chessbox store game history

2007-05-02 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Mauricio Peccorini wrote: Before making a huge mess out of this code, I'd like to know if everyone is ok with people modifying that file. Unfortunately I don't see any other way of pulling this feature off. I don't see any problem with that. Linus

Sponsored tickets to DevCon 2007

2007-04-17 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Hi developers! We have decided to sponsor the travel expenses for any developers who decide to go to Stockholm, with 100EUR from the Rockbox fund. This offer is valid for core developers only, i.e those with SVN commit access. Email us for questions regarding this. See you there! Linus

Re: Estimated Runtime feature.

2007-04-17 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Paul Louden wrote: How many people think this feature is worth keeping? I was talking in IRC, and I realized it's a fairly weak feature. With all the various codecs music can be played with, and the conditions under which it can be played, for the vast majority of people the runtime is, if

Rockbox International Developers Conference 2007

2007-03-29 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Hi friends! Linus Nielsen Feltzing and Daniel Stenberg invite YOU to participate in the Rockbox International Developers Conference 2007, to be held in Stockholm Sweden during the weekend May 19-20 2007. We thought we'd get together for a two-day Rockbox hacking session, and that it would

Re: WPS tokenizer

2007-03-29 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Nicolas Pennequin wrote: I've updated my WPS tokenizer patch again. It's now reached a state where I think it's nearly committable, but before I do so, I'd like some help from someone who knows the archos player code to fix the issues I have with it. Maybe it's just in the sim, but the

Re: Request some icons

2007-02-14 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Michael Sevakis wrote: Guess I missed out on the debate but + is used for expandable tree items in UIs and it's meaning I think well established. I guess I don't understand why these common conventions should be ignored and something else reinvented or misappropriated. So what is the main

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Daniel Stenberg wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Jonathan Gordon wrote: Well the idea came up in irc yesterday about possibly adding a plugin which would add extra tags to the wps without overloading the core, anyway, its sort of finished and I want t know what people think and weather its

Re: Now Playing Menu Entry

2007-01-16 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Paul Louden wrote: Just to clarify, I may have misunderstood, but I was referring to the left-to-wps patch. I'm not sure as to the exact holdups regarding the play-to-wps-in-menu patch, which has its own hurdles, though I can't recall what they are. The issue with that patch is that it for

Re: Battery and volume level display in WPS

2007-01-04 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Tobias Heimann wrote: IMHO it would be more logical to spread the highest interval as the other ones, e.g. using: int l = MIN(battery_level(), 99); ... *intval = limit * l / 100 + 1 + 1; The volume display interval has the same issue

Re: rockbox-recorder-20061122 - volume representation messed up

2006-11-23 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
mat holton wrote: how many hi-fi's have negative numbers next to the volume knob? None, that's how many. That's odd. Then maybe my hi-fi isn't a hi-fi, because it displays the volume in dB. And I like it. We could use any representation we want, and we opted for a representation that

Re: rockbox-recorder-20061122 - volume representation messed up

2006-11-23 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Philipp Pertermann wrote: If the percentage- versus decibel-volume-scale is that much of an issue - why not make it an option wether to display the volume as % or as db? Because it is a waste of precious code space on the archos? Linus

Re: Volume control in the digital domain

2006-11-10 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
john wrote: Seriously: It seems there is absolutely no code in the firmware that allows changing the volume by manipulating the digital audio data. If I am wrong, please tell me. The ReplayGain code in Rockbox uses the apply_gain() function in apps/dsp.c. Linus

Re: how should ata_idle_notify handle SYS_USBCONNECTED and SYS_SHUTDOWN?

2006-11-07 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: hey, I'm pretty sure that the idle notify callbacks should be called for these 2 events. I'm not. Let the callback owners deal with that. Linus

Re: jethead71: firmware/target/coldfire system-coldfire.c,1.2,1.3

2006-11-04 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
RaeNye wrote: That explains why ROM: 1001 move.b d1,d0 ROM:0002 8000 or.bd0,d0 ROM:0004 0008 ori.b #8,d0 doesn't make sense... However, see how the OF does it: seg018:30EB8C3A reboot:

Re: jethead71: firmware/target/coldfire system-coldfire.c,1.2,1.3

2006-11-03 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More tweak to ColdFire default exception handler. iRiver reboots on power press but x5 just shuts down. Haven't yet thought much about why or how to make it reboot on x5 if it's possible. The X5 shuts down because the KEEP_ACT signal goes inactive when the port pins

Re: jethead71: firmware/target/coldfire system-coldfire.c,1.2,1.3

2006-11-03 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
RaeNye wrote: Actually, system_reboot() is correct only for iriver. Jmp-ing to 0x4 is utterly wrong in the X5; you should either jmp to 0x0 (the preloader) or to 0x1 (RB bootloader) I find that extremely hard to believe, since vector 0 is the initial stack pointer. Linus

Re: Reviewers and committer for talkative RB

2006-10-12 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Stéphane Doyon wrote: -And there's a few features that would be useful to audio book readers... for one, it's too easy to skip to the next track when you just wanted to adjust the volume, and the bus happened to hit a bump at that moment... Audio book tracks can be very long, so it can be VERY

Re: lamed: apps/gui splash.c,1.9,1.10

2006-10-04 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonas H wrote: What does this mean? Please provide a more descriptive commit message, especially important for future use, when looking back at things that changed, to find out why things are as they are. He admitted the mistake in the IRC channel, and requested help from the developers to

Re: menu/settings merging take 2!

2006-09-07 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: Both config blocks have been removed. All settings are now stored in a very long list (settings_list.c). Settings are loaded automatically from /.rockbox/config.cfg and /.system.cfg (system.cfg is used for settings which are important but the user does not configure them,

Re: iRiver H320 scrolling bug or feature?

2006-08-24 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About the Stop button I double checked and it really works :-) Yes it does. However, using Stop for combos is a bad idea, since you will turn off the device if you hold it for too long. Linus

Re: my next crazy idea... rework the menu system

2006-08-23 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: So, Does this idea sound workable and do you like it? I agree that the setting menu code could be made simpler and more flexible, and your idea is as good as any other. However, I don't think it needs to be done offline with a text file and a script. I believe we

Re: Option rework (was: Re: my next crazy idea... rework the menu system)

2006-08-23 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Paul Louden wrote: One option is to move all the playback options out of the main menu, and into the WPS context menu, as well as any of the options in the sound menu which don't affect audio in plugins with audio (for example, is bass and treble applied to gameboy games? I really don't know

Re: Archos Player taken out?

2006-08-22 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Vladimir Pantelic wrote: I have 5-10 players, does that make you change your mind? :-) Hehe, no, but it makes you a good candidate for the Player branch maintainer. :-) Linus

Re: CONTEXT_SETTINGS reworking..

2006-08-19 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: (iriver only because sdl is broken and i have no sim) You keep saying that. Why don't you fix it? Linus

Re: H300 USB charging patch

2006-08-13 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Matthias Mohr wrote: Now that the feature freeze was lifted I wonder why it still does not get committed to the CVS. Is there still something wrong or missing? I'll have a look at it. I had simply forgotten about it. Linus

Re: How easy is it?

2006-08-10 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Dave Hooper wrote: There's no 'easy way', no. And yes, to port or write a codec for Rockbox you would need to understand how the Rockbox codec system works - and also either how the .tzx file works, or how the iPod linux codec works -- but take a look at the source code for a simple codec in

Re: Proposed changes to threading API

2006-08-09 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Nix wrote: True concurrency may eventually require some sort of simple locking in any case, but the... strongly separated nature of much of what Rockbox does hopefully means that this can be kept to a minimum (e.g. if one core does nothing but audio, not much will need locking: if somehow the

Re: raenye: bootloader main.c,1.31,1.32

2006-07-30 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
RaeNye wrote: It's relevant only to X5, but I don't really know when TARGET_TREE is #define'd. Enlighten me please :) http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TargetTree Linus

Re: shared library support?

2006-07-25 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: what about loading the static libraries into the codec or audio buffer? it would mean no audio in those plugins, but would add heaps of functionality. That is a solution, but I still don't understand why it would be a problem to link statically. Linus

Re: closing old bug reports?

2006-07-17 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Zakk Roberts wrote: It's saying that this ought to be fixed, nobody's arguing that, so let's get it out of the way of the real bugs, and if it does happen to show up later, we can open a new one. I agree. It's not that we close them as fixed. We close them as Out-of-date because of lack of

Re: A nasty inefficieny in file.c?

2006-07-17 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Bill Janssen wrote: Why doesn't the sector buffer in the readwrite function already do the necessary buffering? The sector buffer in the readwrite function does the buffering, and it works perfectly fine. The nasty inefficiency in this special case is that readline reads 1 byte at a time

Re: A nasty inefficieny in file.c?

2006-07-15 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: // move the fd back to AFTER the \n if needed if (!errno) lseek(fd,num_read-count+1,SEEK_CUR); That could be a really lengthy operation if it crosses a sector boundary. Linus

Re: A nasty inefficieny in file.c?

2006-07-15 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: to limit the distance it has to seek back would it be better to read the smaller of MAX_PATH and buffer_size untill either the buffer is full or we hit a new line? instead of just reading the full buffer size? In any case, the read_line() inefficiency is not a big deal.

Re: Release policy and coordination

2006-05-31 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Mike Holden wrote: For me, the battery life is a non-issue and I use my unit a lot. It could always be improved on of course, but it's plenty good enough to release IMHO. If this was a question of optimization, I would agree. In this case, it is a hardware issue, where some component is

Re: Release policy and coordination

2006-05-31 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Malcolm Tyrrell wrote: ... The moment we come out of freeze, a whole slew of new features will go into the source, and a slew of new bugs with them. If the current code is flaky, how much more flaky will post 3.0 code be? Has the possibility of maintaining seperate release branches been

Re: Release policy and coordination

2006-05-30 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Bryn Smith wrote: Unfortunately most of the code I looked at had very little commenting. I was a little surprised to find that even functions weren't documented as to their purpose and none of the files even had a basic description of their function! Welcome to the world of unpaid volunteer

Re: X5 OF not aware of RB usb changes

2006-05-22 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Malcolm Tyrrell wrote: I'd like to propose that RB deletes the file /_sys/pllist.sif. This would guarantee that the OF will have a consistant file view after using RB has been used. Thanks for your work on finding this out. Now we know how to fix this once the feature freeze is over. Linus

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