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Rockbox displays stuff on Sansa v2
The small team of Rockbox hackers working on the Sandisk Sansa v2 architecture have been doing some great progress recently and I think it’s fair to say that we all enjoy Rafaël Carré’s photo on the left here (showing a Sansa Clip) that shows the state of where things are right now.
There is code running. [...]
Rockbox on FLOSS Weekly #43
Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte interviewed our own Paul “Llorean” Louden about the Rockbox project on FLOSS Weekly and we were a bunch of Rockboxers hanging out on the IRC channel #rockbox while it was streamed live. This will be in the FLOSS Weekly episode #43 that’s supposedly going to become available on friday the [...]
Not Based on Linux
Ok so the guys on the Linux Action Show podcast don’t really get a lot of bonus points from me lately. The episode after they had their “we need to sell proprietary software” outburst, they slammed the Rockbox 3.0 release (roughly 23:40 into the episode for you who want to fast-forward to it).
They started off [...]
So THAT is the point of releases!
In the Rockbox project we’ve been using a rather sophisticated build system for many years that provide updated binary packages to the public after every single commit. We also provide daily built zips, manuals, fonts and other extras directly off
Rockbox 3.0
We finally shipped it!
Corbet mocked us a bit about the very very long time since the previous Rockbox release, but we finally released Rockbox 3.0 and all is fine and dandy now.
MP3 playback optimized for dual-core targets
Enhancement, improvement or optimization: MP3 playback optimized for dual-core targets
gdgt #2 said Rockbox
Ryan and Peter from Engadget and Gizmodo fame are now making a new site and podcast series. The latter seem to have climbed the “charts” very rapidly and it is a top podcast in the tech sector on itunes apparently.
Anyway, in the second episode (about 20 minutes into it) they did a very brief and [...]
A bad move. A really bad move.
So I wrote this little perl script to perform a lot of repeated binary Rockbox builds. It builds something like 35 builds and zips them up and gives them proper names in a dedicated output directory. Perfect to do things such as release builds.
Then I wrote a similar one to build manuals and offer them [...]
DFU mode on 2nd gen Nanos
Some clever hackers in the Rockbox community wrote up a tool to access the Meizu players’ DFU mode (while running Linux - which I already mentioned), and using this we can upload and run code on several Meizu targets. The code is put and executed in SDRAM only. It makes it a perfect way to [...]
Good port day
Things happen in bursts. Development goes on and on for long periods without any noticeable big breakthroughs, and then all of a sudden a lot happens at once. And those days are the best days!
Rockbox now works somewhat on the iAudio7, new patch posted today!
Rockbox now almost runs on the Creative Zen Vision:m, but at [...]
A talk that won’t happen
I had already talked to the guys about going to FSCONS 2008 and do a talk about Rockbox and reverse engineering when I realized that the very same weekend we’re going to Rome, Italy with my company and if that isn’t enough, the Google summer of code mentor summit is also taking place that weekend [...]
Site deadness
When I got to work this morning I immediately noticed that one of the servers that host a lot of services for open source projects I tend to play around with (curl, Rockbox and more), had died. It responded to pings but didn’t allow my usual login via ssh. It also hosts this blog.
I called [...]
Rockbox is mainly GPL v2 or later
I just wanted to express this loud and clearly:
At the Rockbox devcon back in June, we discussed this issue and we did deem the Rockbox license to be “GPL v2 or later”, so during this summer we have updated the Rockbox source code headers pretty much all over to reflect this fact. (Previously we had [...]
Rockbox on iAudio 7 with screenshot
Back in October 2007 I wrote about the first stumbling attempts to get Rockbox onto the iAudio 7 player, but development really didn’t get up to speed until very recently when Vitja Makarov posted his initial patch for this and now has also followed-up with a shot of his player showing custom code displaying debug [...]
Redesigned recording screen
Enhancement, improvement or optimization: Redesigned recording screen
Vacation days are slow days
I just wanted to drop a note saying that the biggest explanation for the silence and slowness of my blog the last couple of weeks have been my ongoing vacation, which is still going on for another two weeks.
Of course things are happening still, but due to my lack of computer time right now I [...]
SAP codec
New feature: SAP codec
Interview with me
I spoke to Anthony Bryan from the metalink project over Skype the other day, and the 16 minute recorded interview was recently posted so I thought I’d just announce my local copy of the 14MB file.
The topics should be of no surprise to readers of my blog: me, curl, Rockbox and metalink basically.
study mode renamed to "Skip Length"
Enhancement, improvement or optimization: study mode renamed to "Skip Length"
Initial support for the Onda VX747
New feature: Initial support for the Onda VX747
Rockbox on the Onda VX747
Maurus Cuelenaere has been very busy lately with his work on porting Rockbox to the Onda VX747 player. This 3″ LCD 4GB/8GB flash player isn’t just touch screen and very ipod touch-looking, it is also equipped with the Ingenic Jz4732 chipset. This is particularly interesting because this baby boasts an XBurst processor, which has a [...]
Added keybox plugin.
New feature: Added keybox plugin.
Rockbox devcon 2008 summary
As it has become somewhat of a little tradition of mine, I’ve put up a little summary of devcon 2008 page to round up the previous very intense weekend we spent in Berlin. And I just feel a need to include the tower picture here as well:
24 different targets and 8 beers
This evening we collected all the different targets we have represented here at the Rockbox devcon and made little picture of them. We managed to pull together 24 different models for it. All these devices run Rockbox, although some of them are not really mature ports. 9 different models didn’t make it to the picture [...]
Rockbox devcon discussion recorded
We had an almost two hour discussion today on Rockbox devcon, and we recorded the thing on ustream and you can enjoy it here.
Topics: release 3.0 about 55 minutes
Some little about gsoc2008
GPLv2 discussions about 1h:00 in
Rockbox
Rockbox Devcon kind of starts today
In just a few hours I’ll take off to Berlin to go visit The Rockbox International European Developers Conference 2008. This year is hopefully going to become the biggest devcon so far. If you’re in Berlin this weekend, show up and say hello!
For you people living on a continent more to the west, keep your [...]
Rockbox devcon tshirts
As previous years, Haxx is sponsoring the Rockbox team with a set of tshirts for Devcon this upcoming weekend.
If you intend to show up in Berlin and join us, do tell me (on IRC or email) your preferred tshirt size, M, L or XL, so that we can bring along the suitable amount of shirts [...]
Add conditional viewports to the WPS, details i...
New feature: Add conditional viewports to the WPS, details in CustomWPS
Change the progressbar tags, and remove the lef...
Enhancement, improvement or optimization: Change the progressbar tags, and remove the left margin tag from the WPS, details in CustomWPS
Sound on the D2!
Rob Purchase just blurbed the news on IRC that he has now made Rockbox on the Cowon D2 produce its first 10 seconds of (ear-blasting) sound!