Rockbox

This patch will correct how thai vowels and tonal makers display.

Where possible (i.e. the buttons aren’t needed for somethinig else), the PLAY button should go straight to the WPS (resuming as required) or radio.

These are almost the case, but on the H300 there are the following exceptions:

- Rockbox Info (PLAY performs the disk free space scan, same as SELECT)
- Playlist Viewer when selected from the Main > Playlists menu (PLAY returns to the menu above, same as LEFT)
- Sleep Timer (PLAY does nothing)
- Debug Manu (PLAY enters the selected item, same as SELECT)
- Browse x in Settings, where x = Themes, Fonts or .cfg/.wps/.rwps Files (PLAY returns to the menu above, same as LEFT). (Note that the plugin browser works fine!)

Similarly, the STOP button should stop playback, which is largely ok, except:

- In the Playlist Viewer (STOP does nothing)

I don’t have any other targets handy, but feel free to add any other suspect screens here.

This patch modifies the Gigabeat S keymap so that it can be used almost solely using the buttons on the face of the player.

Currently, there is an unused button in the WPS screen (the BACK button, up-left from the cross) which in my mind makes more sense as the “back to the menu” button, while the MENU button (up-right from the cross) is the logical Play/Pause button (at least to a right-handed individual). It’s unfortunate that the button with the Windows logo has been called the MENU button in the code, thus making this rather confusing to read, but if enough people agree with the feel of this change, that could be modified as well.

This patch adds an option to disable the speed limiting that slows down seeking as you approach the end or beginning of a track.

It defaults to limiting enabled, to maintain compatibility. Personally, I prefer the fast seeking without the limiting.

The manual is not included, I can't compile them still…

Obviously there is no one who wants to open a mp3 file with text viewer. With this patch applied, ‘Open With..’ only shows plugins that are associated in ‘viewers.config’. To see a full list of viewers plugin, just set the ‘Show Files’ option to ‘All’ and try again.

Some builtin filetypes are text file, so I added them into ‘viewers.config’ for the accessibility.

this patch adds inline settings to the
any menu items are settings it will show a 2nd line for that menu which will show the value of the elected setting, or —→ for submenus/functions.

notes about this
uses too many hacky-tweaks to be considered
doesnt let you disable
item voiceing is probably
doesnt let you change the setting, you still have to enter the setting screen to change it

DONT send this topic off on a tangent like the last UI change tasks, and any requests for resyncs will be deleted. (I’m guessing this will stay here till at least devcon)

When utilizing the database on the iPod Photo (as well as other 4G iPods I have used), on occasion when entering a directory or going to the parent directory, any button on the iPod will need to be pressed before the others will have effect. I.E. before I can scroll to select a song, I must press Select or one of the other wheel buttons. It is severely annoying, in part because it is too sporadic to even be assumed to be a “feature”.

This patch adds fairly decent support for the sliderbar on the front of the iRiver H10 series players. This functionality is prominently displayed on the H10 wiki as something that is significant and missing.

With this patch the user can slide his finger over the slider to produce a scrolling effect. Or, they may also tap or hold down the upper or lower 30% of the slider for the older up/down behaviour with auto-repeat provided by the common code. This basically mimics the OF’s functionality.

The physical slider is very sensitive, so the values that come back from it are fairly spastic. I’ve attempted to tone down any wild behaviour, and I’ve added #defines in the patch that can be used to tune the behaviour. But frankly, even the user’s thumb size will affect what “good” values are. I believe what I have is good for the time being, but more tweaking may be necessary as time goes on.

Whenever the HOLD switch is turned off, the hold icon in rockbox disappears, but hold actually doesn’t let go. I can’t use any keys until scroling is used. Scrolling left or right is the only thing that actually switches off hold. It can be pretty annoying as I use HOLD a lot.

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)

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

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.

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

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.

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 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

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.

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?)