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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: WAV Codec for ArchosRe: WAV Codec for Archos
From: [IDC]Dragon <idc-dragon_at_gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:35:53 +0100 (MET) > Aren't most of the existing plugins just developer toys? ;-) > (Just kidding!) Offense taken. > From what you're writing it seems to me that you already did some > testing with the codec. Is that right? What are the results? No, I didn't, only read the datasheet. > > A similar problem exists for the disk I/O, here we have to endian swap > byte > > pairs. Archos unfortunately wired the 16 bit data bus directly 1:1, not > > taking into account that IDE is little endian and the SH CPU is big > endian. > > Isn't there the same problem when playing/recording MP3 data? Or does > the built-in MP3 codec take care of this? Yes, and that's a reason to tackle both at once: squeeze the bitswap to the output stage, buffer the data as-is. > I don't think that my idea is too bad at all, since e.g. the video > plugin does in a way exactly the same (processing data that cannot be > handled by the Rockbox CPU simply outside of the unit.) Don't tell me, I wrote that plugin and the authoring procedure. Not many people (or nobody?) is using that seriously, for good reason. > I just think that the goal shouldn't > be set too high for the start and that the code can be improved once the > basic things are running. True, I was talking about the far end goal, or what I would view as my goal. Jörg -- DSL-Aktion wegen großer Nachfrage bis 28.2.2006 verlängert: GMX DSL-Flatrate 1 Jahr kostenlos* http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dslReceived on 2006-01-26 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |