Rockbox - CLOSED

Ourkim

Hi, everybody.

I've seen many posts mantioning Rockbox, but no thread dedicated to this subject.
I think most of us would be delighted to have the option to install Rockbox on our M6s or M3s, right?

IMO having also Rockbox for its players would be a great selling point for Meizu and a great technical feedback.

So I have some questions about it:

1) What do Meizu thinks about Rockbox? Are they considering to promote its port in some way?
2) What does the Rockbox team think about porting Rockbox to Meizu players? Any skilled Meizu fan out there can start it?


One last consideration about SRS WOW: it has been substituted for Samsung's own SW, but Samsung itself uses SRS WOW on many of its products.
So, is it possible to know the real reason why Meizu dropped it? Was it exclusively a matter of royalties?

PS
I bought a black 8GB miniplayer in Chengdu last sunday (8/4), but price was still 999CNY, plus I got USB charger, silicone skin and anti scratch films (not original) for a round 1000CNY!

FirePower

This is the website for Rockbox so you check out what it is all about.
Its basically open source firmware for mp3 player. Adds features that were not part of the original firmware and support for players that are no longer supported by manufactures.

http://www.rockbox.org/

Hardware used in miniplayer



more photos here
http://en.meizu.com/userforum/forum_posts.asp?TID=254

Proccesor - Samsumg ARM9 SA58700X07 also used in iriver clix
http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semi...eet_051103.pdf

Touchpad Controller - Quantum QT411
http://www.qprox.com/products/qslide_qt411.php

FM Radio - Sanyo V24000

Digital Audio Encoder/Decoder - Philips 380HN
http://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datashe...UDA1380HN.html

Power Management - Linear LTC3455 , for charging lithium battery via USB
http://www.linear.com/pc/productDeta...?navId=LTC3455

puffel

Of course Meizu does not want Rockbox on their players. No mediaplayer producer would like it I guess.
I don't know wether these Rockbox guys have time for the Meizu players, because to write a firmware for a player you don't know much about is quite difficult and needs time.
But you're right, most Meizu users would like it I guess.

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plg6067

Idk I have rock box on my ipod and I like it but meizu's software is good. Also on my 30gb ipod video scrolling throw lots of songs with rockbox is slooow, I wounder how quick a meizu would be. I would try it out though if some one made it so good luck with it

Job

imo rockbox is nice for player like the Ipod that have very limited functionalists but doesn't seem necessary for the M6 as it has plenty of options

of course it would be nice to have it available anyway for those who like to rockbox their player

I dont think any manufacturer will ever promote rockbox as its a replacement for their own firmware...

oxyg3n

Rockbox would be awesome on miniplayer, meizu firmware lacks many features to compare with rockbox. Rockbox has tons of features, games, themes, program utilities etc. lots of display, playback configurations and extends battery life. I don't think any mp3 original firmware can beat rockbox functionality. it's a pity that nobody seems to be working with rockbox project on meizu m6...;/

marcelo1251

so, who wants to start it?

terryw83

Sounds fun.... shall we start?

MONVMENTVM

Open Source is always the better solution.

Even if Meizu doesn't want to develop on Rockbox (which I can understand) a open source firmware would eliminate bugs in short time, add features and so on, as there are a lot of people around with knowledge to cope this. Besides that hardware which supports opensource is always more interesting for the users. Large communities build up and it is also a fun to work on stuff like that. Just remind the Linksys WRT54G router with its open source firmware projects. These routers got filled up with features and all the major projects released firmwares far better than the Linksys Ones. Of course it was Linksys' fault (or maybe luck?), because they implemented GPL code into their firmwares. When this was discovered, they had to put their firmware under GPL too and therefore open source. People were able to modify and improve the firmwares and so on. But the main point (which meizu should also consider) is that these Open Source firmware projects made this router so popular. First Linksys was shocked when they had to release the source code but quite soon they discovered that this pushed the popularity of their routers a lot. And as their newer versions had different hardware and so no open source project support, they released the WRT54GL (L for Linux) which they dedicated to the open source development. They did of course the right thing here.

ambitious

Rockbox => Battery life sucks, u will get a single digit battery life since code isn't optimized, u r ok with that? most ppl will not be i guess..