Rockbox

Overview:

This adds the hotkey [short home], and allows you to stop/start play more or less anywhere [long home] which I find quite useful. Hopefully, it’s a little more consistent too, though it still needs a bit of polish.

Problems:

I’d quite like [short power] to stop play in the menus by calling ACTION_TREE_STOP, but unfortunately that only works for local files, not for the radio, which feels inconsistent. I’ve put in a feature request; http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=25657.0

The recording screen isn’t very consistent with the rest of the keymap - you can press [left] or [home] to get back to the menu, and [short power] and [right] both open the recording menu. This seems to be a peculiarity of the way the recording screen is designed, though I’ll try to improve it.

There is a ‘glitch’ in that when you press [long home] deep in the menus, it’ll sometimes jump through another menu before dropping back to the WPS / Radio screen.

Some users prefer to have a free button with which to turn the backlight back on - they are seemingly used to using [short down], which is bound to playlist here. However, if they don’t set the WPS hotkey, they’ll still have a ‘functionless’ button, so no functionality is lost.

I haven’t touched the HID part at all, because I have no clue what it does…

Details of major changes:
WPS:
[Long up] Pitch screen
[Short down] Playlist screen
[Long down] Quick screen
[Short home] Hotkey
[Long home] Stop

Pitch screen:
[Short select] Cycle mode
[Long select] Reset

Recording screen: (troublesome)
[Short select] Start / pause
[Short left] / [Short home] New file / exit
[Short right] / [Short power] Recording menu
[Volume] Adjust settings

Radio screen:
[Short select] Scan / search
[Long select] Presets
[Short down] Radio menu

Built against r2799. All comments and suggestions welcome, and thanks for reading.

This attempts to implement the idea in http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=25169.0 this only works for the Settings menu in the main menu.

With this patch, if you reenter the Settings menu, it shows the menu shown when you leave the menu just like when you return to the browser or the database.

This patch adds a frequency response graph below the equalizer's controls, making it an EQ that is actually "graphical".

I'm still not sure about the accuracy of the represented curve, in particular the Q factor on the peaking filters seems to have an effect opposite to the expected, though the equations are taken from the same "audio EQ cookbook" the equalizer is based on, any help is appreciated!

The user interface is still incomplete, I want to add proper tags on the axes and bars. I also thought about re-enabling the theme on this screen (why is it disabled?) and change the behavior of the "right" button, making it consistent with other menus.

Tested on a Sansa e200.

3.7.1, r29372, tested on Sansa e270

The idea is that when connected via USB, devices with button/wheel lights will indicate disk activity using the light, similar to a USB flash drive.

This works, sort of.
One real problem has been encountered:
The calls to buttonlight_on() and _off() seem to override the backlight_timeout_plugged setting, preventing the backlight from shutting off when this is enabled.

I didn't like that the "Backlight on first keypress" function ignores the first keypress no matter which key was pressed. For example, I want the volume keys to work normally even when the backlight is off (that is, they should turn on the backlight *and* change the volume).

This patch restricts "Backlight on first keypress" to certain buttons only. in other words, these buttons work normally only when the backlight is on; otherwise, they just turn on the backlight. As a proof of concept, it changes the Clip and Clip+ behavior to filter out only the Home key when the backlight is off, allowing the other keys to function normally.

It works by allowing button-target.h to define the buttons that are filtered by the "Backlight on first keypress" function. If left undefined, the function filters all buttons when the backlight is off, as in the status quo.

[EDIT: Clarified that there is no overlap with  FS#9305  - Context sensitive backlight on key press]

Split out from  FS#11748 .

This patch adds an option to prevent rewinding to the beginning of a track to avoid losing the current playback and resume position by accidentally pressing the Left key. Instead, Left always directly skips back to the previous track. This behavior can be enabled for all tracks or only for those tracks that can be autoresumed on automatic track change (which already is separately configurable).

I'm dropping this patch here for now because I see little chance right now of this being accepted into the trunk. Some developers have complained about the considerable configuration complexity of autoresume as it is, and although this additional behavior can be convenient, there is no ultimate need for it because the resume position prior to the rewind to 0:00 is preserved as long as another skip occurs within the first 15 seconds of the rewound track's playback (for example, by pressing Left again to skip to the previous track).

This change was originally contributed by Dave Slusher in  FS#11748 . I just added the configuration logic.

Patch relative to r29484.

Attached is a patch that:

* adds an option to chose the date format in the system menu (choice between YMD, DMY and MDY)
* adds a %cF theme tag so that theme can know in which order to display the date

There are a few new strings that I only added in English.

This is my very first rockbox patch so please let me know if anything should be improved.

I did the patch against svn 29827 and tested it in a simulated Fuze v2 as well as a real one.

I know keymap changes can be a difficult topic, this one however is just a small change - which, I hope, improves usability of Clip players quite a bit.

I just swapped the behavior of two functions when browsing lists: short press on the power button returns to WPS, and pressing menu + center stops playback while in lists. Return to WPS is arguably the much more often used functionality of the two, and this change makes it easier to do that.

This patch will add a setting, called "Scroll Bar Border", which will determine whether menus / lists will have scrollbars with borders or not.

The default value for this setting is "yes", so that it matches previous behavior.

The following set of WPS tags demonstrates:

# WPS Document
%wd
%V(0,0,-,10,2)%Vb(000000)%Vf(FFF000)
%aL%cH:%cM %ac%pv %aR%bt
%V(0,11,-,30,2)%Vb(000000)%Vf(FFF000)
%it

If you alternately insert and remove a space between the second occurence of %Vb/%Vf, the track title text appears and disappears. It appears to happen in a few other variations, but this is the shortest concrete example.

Whenever screendump is enabled,It gets a panic error.
Error Message:
*PANIC*
Stkov usb
pc:080739ac sp:080f5458

Neither of the tools, ipodpatcher or Rockbox Utility 1.4.0, work on macOS Catalina.

Catalina removed 32bit support.

Using ipodpatcher generates the following error:

bash-3.2$ ./ipodpatcher
bash: ./ipodpatcher: Bad CPU type in executable

And Rockbox Utility has a white circle with a line through it indicating that it does not work with this version of the OS.

(see attached file)

Create database application.

1) At first FS9349 patch file (http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/9349?getfile=17401) apply.

2) After this task’s patch apply.

The aim of this patch is to make releases as simple as possible... i.e the end goal would be to have someone run “$ ~/rockbox/tools/release/release.sh 3.3” and that would do everything except feed the cat...

the first version just modifies bins.pl to accept a version number which eventually gets passed to the Makefile and used in the source to set the version string in the source to “3.x-rBLAAA”.

This also defines RBRELEASE which can be used in the source to do stuff, for example, remove the debug menu in releases (if we decide to do that...) (RELEASE is defined in speex so had to add the RB prefix...)

Also, this changes the way configure is run to use command line args instead of passing input to it which is Just Wrong (TM) :p

Emuriver is an emulator (not simulator) for iriver ifp-7xx series. It’s part of the http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IriverIfpPort and has until now been hosted at the main author’s (Tomek’s) site http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~tmal/rockbox/ It includes a tool to create flash images for use with the emulator, and a tool to mount such images and do basic file management on them.

This version is almost identical to the last version from Tomek’s site, but I had to fix a few bugs to make it usable on my system. Changes are as follows:

flashimgtool.c: Outputs usage information on errors. (I didn’t do this; I don’t know where this code came from but it’s useful.)

hardware.c: Bug: Arguments were missing in a function call which would sometimes cause segmentation faults, and (I don’t know why or how) slow down the emulator.

main.c: Changed a default file name from prog_flash.bin to prog_flash.img (I didn’t do this)

main.c: Bug: Added explicit return value to nonvoid function. The implicit return value was sometimes -1 which indicated an error so emuriver aborted.

make_flash_img.c: Optimizations: “if” replaced with “else if”. (I didn’t do this)

uicurses.c: Rename a variable into someting more unique. (I didn’t do this)

The reason I’m submitting this patch is that I think the emulator could be useful as it is for those trying to build the ifp port from SVN, that it could (maybe) be worked on to support other players, and that my bugfixes should be included for those building emuriver.

There are a few issues: The flashimgtool subdir in emuriver duplicates a few (three years old) files from RB, disk.c, fat.c, and some more. You might not like the directory structure. It uses an ancient version of autotools. I haven’t been able to create flash images that actually work with flashimgtool. I haven’t built the RB port for ifp yet, so I don’t know if it will run in emuriver or not.

Yes I have discussed the patch in IRC.

The attached patch fixes a minor compiler warning on 64 bit platforms.

Update to my tools/talkclips.py script. Minor updates which include:
- Better handling of logfile eg. we don't leave it open as was the case
before
- Report a few more details in the log eg. start/end time, duration, and
number of talk clips created. This is useful to dettect how many files
had problems…
- Summarise output for user at end, of processing, number of talkclips
created and how long this took (in seconds).
- Report to user how many talk clips will need to be created to give
them an indication of potential waiting time etc. This is calculated by
first determining how many files are on the device excluding .talk files, and how many .talk
files there are, and calculating the difference.
- This information allows a percentage indication to be drawn throughout
the script, so now the user can track the percentage as processing takes
place.

Patch is attached.

Thanks.

This patch adds SubRip subtitle support to MPEG Player.
http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=SubRip

Files need to have the same name as the video file with a “.srt” extension.

I know that the OSD rendering is not implement in a way that linuxstb and jhMikeS would like but I still wanted to post the patch here in case anyone felt like adapting it. (Current OSD only renders on top of the video area, it can be adapted to add other OSD channels … like display a seek bar, volume control, playback state, etc.)

Enjoy,

Edit: I’ve also added a timebar display (when changing the volume)

Right now if the voice file fails to load, there’s a splash message but blind users won’t be able to see it.

(usually this happens because they upgraded rockbox without upgrading the voice file too)

It would be useful if we could embed a failsafe voice file, containing only that one prompt, so the user will know what is going on.

Just English for now, though ideally one for every language we support.

(Oh, and a pony too. Please?)