If we are wanting to write a frontend for something that plays MP3
files, may i suggest using 'ffmpeg' .. it works great even on fixed
point systems like the ARM and can decode damn near anything that has
anything to do with MPEG - from MP3 to DiVX to AC3. I have heard that
DiVX is fully watchable on 200mhz or slower ARM's! Going ahead with
something like a full media player project would be IMHO, neater and
more useful than an audio-only player. FFMPEG can be compiled with
selective support for codecs so you could save some space if you only
needed mp3 codec for example.

The audio support could go in natively and the app could be started as
an mp3/audio-only player and later, we could add the video support.
PicoGUI would need to be extended to support drawing methods like shared
memory or directfb style hardware video overlay/scaling, but such
features would be highly useful things in PicoGUI anyway, if there were
apps that required them...

Just an idea, since I really have no time to code such a beast... ffmpeg
is at ffmpeg.sourceforge.net, btw.

John




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