Rockbox

Enhancement, improvement or optimization: Improved UI and seeking support for the video player.

The photo here was taken by “shotofadds”, and is the first proof of actual custom code running on the Cowon D2 target. The D2 features a TCC7801 chips from Telechips as the main SoC. More HW details are in the Rockbox wiki page. (The photo is slightly bigger in the forum but just as dark…)

I just wanted to share with you some very friendly and encouraging words I received in a mail from an individual that shall remain unidentified. It is actually rather unusual to get this kind of cheerful words as people who get things and enjoy them rarely get back, but instead we hear [...]

New feature: PictureFlow: A nice animated visualization for album art.

On my Sansa v2 web page, I’m collecting firmware binaries for these new targets in order to figure them out and kickstart the Rockbox effort for them. All firmware files have a .bin extension. It is quite clear (by simple human inspection) that the first 0×400 bytes in each .bin file is a header (padded with [...]

With the recently published jailbreak for iPod Touch, combined with the SDL port for iPhone there should be little in the way for running Rockbox on it as an application, pretty much in exctly the same way I mentioned how Rockbox could be made to run on mobile phones. It seems a suitable place to start [...]

Many of the hackers involved in the Rockbox project of course have had the dream to hack our phones as well one day to make them start behaving and working more in the way we want them to. Many times people have brought up the possibilities of (and the inherent problems with) porting Rockbox to [...]

AMS was very friendly and replied to my data sheet requesting email very rapidly, and now I have the data sheet for the AS3525 in my possession. This is good news for an upcoming porting effort to the SanDisk Sansa v2 series of players, but it doesn’t make it all perfectly easy since we still [...]

There’s been eager activity in the Rockbox forums lately, and I’ve also had help from friendly guys over at anythingbutipod. But now things are much clearer on the Hardware front of many of the recent SanDisk Sansa players: SanDisk has released new or updated mp3 players this autumn, named Sansa View, Sansa e200 v2, Sansa c200 [...]

New feature: Matrix Demo for all non-mono bitmap displays.