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[pomegranate]

Originally Posted by rasher

This is because the jpeg viewer uses the same memory space as the audio buffer.

Album art! Goddam it I can't believe I didn't think of doing that yet!
Thanks!

[inluxication]

Originally Posted by rasher

This is because the jpeg viewer uses the same memory space as the audio buffer.

Indeed, because of the clever 33-level greyscale hack. Would it be possible to have a 4-level greyscale jpeg-viewer plugin that *could* be used while music is playing? (Having said that, what I really care about is full-quality, gapless, glitchless music playing and recording; the rest is just frills.

-Greg

[inluxication]

Ah, sorry -- my previous understanding was that it was an issue of the CPU needing to be free to keep flipping the pixels to get 33-level greyscale. If it's a problem of memory space then maybe even 4-level grey can't be done concurrently with music.
-Greg

[rasher]

Originally Posted by inluxication

Indeed, because of the clever 33-level greyscale hack. Would it be possible to have a 4-level greyscale jpeg-viewer plugin that *could* be used while music is playing?

This has nothing to do with greyscale. It's simply because the jpeg is loaded in the same memory space as is used for sound cache.

[themadcub]

Is it possible to modify Rockbox in such a way that when the player is plugged into the mains it would not draw power from the battery but straight from the mains (overcoming battery at all)? I was just wondering, but it's probably hardware and not firmware that matters in this case... What do you think?

[linus]

The hardware is designed that way, nothing we can do about it.

[cormie]

Originally Posted by rasher

This has nothing to do with greyscale. It's simply because the jpeg is loaded in the same memory space as is used for sound cache.

But can the album art not be shown with the same plugin that is opened to view the "Grayscale" plug-in in "Plug Ins", I mean, you can view this image screen while the music is playing ya know? can it not just open the album art with this plugin? I'm confused

[linus]

Originally Posted by cormie

But can the album art not be shown with the same plugin that is opened to view the "Grayscale" plug-in in "Plug Ins", I mean, you can view this image screen while the music is playing ya know? can it not just open the album art with this plugin? I'm confused

The JPEG image data is loaded in the same memory as the audio. It has nothing to do with grayscale.

[qwert-e]

i'm not too fussed but pictures as a screen saver might be nice. how about a limited bmp viewer, which will only load pictues which are less than 50kb in size, and only display them in the native 4 colours?

it would mean reducing the audio buffer size, but only by a few seconds.

[cormie]

Originally Posted by linus

The JPEG image data is loaded in the same memory as the audio. It has nothing to do with grayscale.

Ahh, so JPEG and grayscale are two completely different things. I thought it was the same thing since 33 shades appear when doing both!

[iHead]

Hi all. I've been trying to get on the Rockbox.org discussion forums for a month to discuss the Rockbox for iRiver, etc. Questions, bug reports, etc.

But they haven't been able to accept new registrations for at least a month now because they're having trouble sending out their initial activiation email. You get:

An Error Has Occurred!

A new activation email has successfully been sent.

And no email. If anybody has an account over there or the ability to contact a moderator or owner of the site, I'd really appreciate it if you could let them know.

I'm loving the latest Rockbox. For several weeks my patched firmware woldn't boot any of the daily's. But last night's worked and the volume and hangs are greatly improved and suprise suprise, the radio is well on the way.

[Febs]

MisticJeff, who runs this site, is the moderator and host of the Rockbox forums. Try sending him an e-mail or private message.

[inluxication]

I joined the Rockbox forum about a week ago with no trouble. Could you have a bad cookie or something? (I've had occasional cookie-related problems with unrelated forums; it's just a thought that may or may not be helpful.)

[jeff]

Originally Posted by iHead

But they haven't been able to accept new registrations for at least a month now because they're having trouble sending out their initial activiation email.

Eeehhh... Buzzer goes off... wrong answer...

We've seen approx. 100 new members in the last month or so... the problem actually lies client side with the users email program, ISP, combination of both, hotmail or yahoo account (putting activation email in junk folder), or spam blocker.

I found your account and activated it for you. Have Fun!!

[iHead]

I will dig into my email spam settings to make sure I can get incoming mail.

If I jumped to a conclusion there, my apologies ... didn't check the spam filters because of the "An Error Has Occurred" web page message.

Thanks again, see ya on Rockbox.org!

[wjmuldowney]

Can someone give me a BRIEF summary of what is available right now with RockBox and any downsides to putting it on my H120 now?

Much appreciated.

[Dunno]

Originally Posted by wjmuldowney

Can someone give me a BRIEF summary of what is available right now with RockBox and any downsides to putting it on my H120 now?

Much appreciated.

EVERYTHING you want to know is here http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IriverFAQ

[Mike]

The only downsides are:

-- If you're like me, you can spend LOTS of time playing with all the settings and making THE PERFECT "what's playing" screen.

-- Rockbox for iRiver iHP-xxx is not yet complete and changes daily--mostly improvements but there can be occasional minor bugs. But the worst of the bugs usually only requires a 5 second reboot. I have neither heard of nor personally had any issue that a restart or reset press wouldn't fix. (Correction: one person with a replacement battery that went bad and damaged his hard drive thought that the battery (an iPod replacement bought on eBay) had swelled up as a result of excessive Rockbox hard drive activity, causing the battery to overheat. I believe that this was said to have occurred after 8 hours of replaygain gain adjustment activity (although someone else may have mentioned that).)

-- And in the "worst case scenario," you simply can still boot up with the iRiver software--the only downside there (apart from its limitation!) is having to press the on and record buttons simultaneously.

And so, in the end, the only real downside in loading up with Rockbox is a 2-button on press if you want to simply keep on doing what you're doing right now. And the advantages are multitudinous.

[linus]

Originally Posted by Mike

(Correction: one person with a replacement battery that went bad and damaged his hard drive thought that the battery (an iPod replacement bought on eBay) had swelled up as a result of excessive Rockbox hard drive activity, causing the battery to overheat. I believe that this was said to have occurred after 8 hours of replaygain gain adjustment activity (although someone else may have mentioned that).)

Please educate me. How can 8 hours of USB hard drive access be called "Rockbox activity"?

[Mr Whippy]

I left my iriver on all night acessing the HD with updating replaygain in foobar. No swelled battery or damaged HD. Stock battery.

[SRGilbert]

Originally Posted by Mike

(Correction: one person with a replacement battery that went bad and damaged his hard drive thought that the battery (an iPod replacement bought on eBay) had swelled up as a result of excessive Rockbox hard drive activity, causing the battery to overheat. I believe that this was said to have occurred after 8 hours of replaygain gain adjustment activity (although someone else may have mentioned that)

Unless I'm confusing him with someone else, you must be refering to SuperFly76 on the Rockbox forum. The battery he was using at the time was the actually stock battery.

Here's one of the threads regarding this: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?...sg7525#msg7525

[Dunno]

It took me 2.5 days to ReplayGain my entire share and everything is still fine, no swollen battery, or any other ailment and yes I have Rockbox installed. (installed battery is Ionity 1900mah).

[Mike]

The person I recalled had posted here, I believe. He thought that his replacement battery (I believe it was the iPod) had swelled as a result of excessive accessing of the iHP hard drive (I thought he had said that he thought this was during the course of replaygain gain-setting, but I may be mis-recalling that). But this all was speculation as to what caused his battery to swell--