pippin wrote: > Adding audio beyond USB audio for me mainly brings up the question of > drivers and codecs. > Don't you have codec/patent licensing issues also with USB audio ? Isn't the issue related to MP3 codecs and similar ? Won't those be needed also if you use USB audio ?
However, as I said in my previous post a few minutes ago, I think it's best to just do a real DIY solution where each user buys the parts and assembles it themselves and load the necessary software on it, then you could probably avoid the codec/patent issues as you are just selling a circuit board without any software, or am I missing something ? You would of course still need drivers, but hopefully those are already available if you select hardware components which already have Linux drivers. pippin wrote: > > On the server side the main point is that you probably need to branch to > be able to supply your own firmware which in turn means you need to > de-brand LMS but I might be wrong here. > For a DIY solution you would probably not load firmware through LMS. The real Logitech Squeezebox devices in the system would get firmware from LMS, the DIY devices would get their firmware through a SDHC card, USB stick or some other way. We aren't talking mass market convenience, we are talking DIY solution for enthusiasts as I've understood it. One reason to re-brand LMS is if you want to ensure long term survival and not risk that Logitech will stop maintaining it in a year or two. Another reason could be that you want to add new features to the core parts of LMS since this won't happen as long as Logitech maintains it. Most things can probably be added as plugins and won't need a community maintained LMS, but if you want to really revolutionize it, you would probably need to branch it since new features would be needed in the core parts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
