I have read the hid entry on wikipedia, so I understand basically what it
is, I was wondering is this going to make life for programmers easier, or will
actual rockbox users see benefits from the introduction of hid?
If so, what kind of benefits might they be?
Alex, my GSoC work is composed of two somewhat different parts. The first
part is making the DAP enumerate as HID, which is in simple words making it
enumerate to the operating system as a sort of multimedia keyboard. Today, the
keypad has no use when the player is connected to the computer. With my work it
will be possible to send the computer key presses, like controlling volume and
skipping tracks.
I am not trying to demean your work in any way, but if a user has there
player connected to the computer at the same time as listening to music, why
would they want to be able to use the player for adjusting volume and skipping
tracks? as presumably they would be listening to music with winamp or a similar
program which can be used to change volume and skip tracks anyway.
In the future, it would be easier for developers to add any other keyboard
mappings, such as using Rockbox as a Power-Point remote control.
I can sort of see the benefits of this, although I guess you would have to be
connected to a computer for that?
This work is useful both for users and developers.
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It should make it easier for developers to create / merge additional class
drivers to Rockbox, such as making Rockbox recognized as an MTP device (as some
players in the market do).
What exactly is an mtp device?
