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Welcome
Tridion, unlike others on this forum, I have used Rockbox and know that 3rd party firmware can be very, very good. I also liked your closing comment that if iRiver beats you to it...great! Otherwise there is a plan B in the works and that is good news as well.
Whether it works out or not, doesn't really matter to me...I am glad that you are trying and can only wish I had the knowledge to try and reverse engineer it. I can only wish you the best of luck.....
If you do start up another forum, please post back here so we know where to go and follow your progress.
I also agree with your comments that the initial effort will be to fix a couple of bugs.
My Rockbox firmware (for Archos) is <120Kbs, the iRiver firmware is nearly 2Mb....any idea why the difference? The Rockbox has all of the features of the iRiver plus on the fly playlist, a couple of simple games, but does not record or view test files. Is the recording feature the big user of the space or is the code likely to be inefficiently written?
Just seems to be huge difference....having written computer programs years ago I am very familiar with the problem of code efficiency..many different ways to get from A to B...
GOOD LUCK!!
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"I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out."--Bill "Spaceman" Lee, BoSox Pitcher 1969-1979
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