Nice to see you on the forum, William. Hopefully you do have some time for developing patches/troubleshooting/new features - I'm sure everyone would appreciate the contributions of someone from MIT with the sort of experience you have! :-)
wcattey;189906 Wrote: > The end nodes ALWAYS get smarter. Make sure your architecture takes > advantage of that! They currently are taking full advantage of the processor, even pushing it beyond its abilities: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=188851&postcount=28 Also I hear the firmware is nearly full. To accommodate extra features, including a barebones server, would either require: - a lot more firmware space. It's a hardware change so a new device would have to be introduced. Existing owners wouldn't be able to have this. - removing lots of features in the current firmware. Now there are a lot of features and a few codecs I could do without, so that would be fine with me, however this would cause howls of protest from others. The "server in a Squeezebox" idea keeps coming up but it's currently opposed to the Squeezebox paradigm - the emphasis is on new features and new codecs, which were made easier to implement since the codecs are all in firmware since the SB2. Putting an elementary server in would require substantial firmware rework as well as removal of a lot of these codecs, plus other features. However things are still being pulled the other way - there are people that would like to see RealAudio, AAC, AAC+, Apple Lossless and Windows Media Lossless added to the firmware. Clearly Slim/Logitech is going to have to start saying "no" and not bending over backwards to support every codec ever developed natively. In regards to synchronization, there were plans to introduce a fine-grained network clock in 7.0, but I see that's no longer in the software roadmap. Still, as the developers are fond of saying, patches are welcome...if you were to submit code I'm sure it would be well-received given your credentials. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33695 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
