Rockbox Project (M6)

markun

hi Guys

Sorry I haven't replied here for such a long time. I was busy with other stuff. It didn't look good for the Meizu port of rockbox, but since last week a rockbox developer has started work on the port again and is making good progress. Currently he only owns an M3 but he wants to buy an M6 as well.

I hope you guys haven't all given up hope and thrown away your players

Currently he's working on the drivers for radio, audio codec, backlight brightness (done) and the clock.

I'll try to keep you updated again

JkPwNsTeR

Alright, good to hear you haven't abandoned us yet.

SJanos

Nice to hear the project is not dead. I've had an M6 TP for 3 years now and I haven't ever consider about selling or dropping it cause it's still a stable and cool player. (Maybe I'll do some experiment with programming on my Ubuntu, and try to help this project.)

mbarry

There are a couple of good deals on M6's. You can get a 4 Gig SP for $35 and free shipping.

The Torminator

Nice, keep us updated then.
He should really consider a M6. I know the SP version is pretty rare to find, so he should defiantly grab one of these if he have the chance.

mbarry

I guess I can't advertise in this forum...how about a PM?

Jensu

hi markun,

thanks for the information. i was reading in the rockbox irc from time to time, but not last week
the last thing i knew (end of last year) was that denes got the m3 dispay driver working. at this point i thought a working display driver for the m6 is not very far... but i now there's a lot of other work to do, like the nand and usb.
i think the m6 would be a very good target to run rockbox on.
good luck for the developers
best
jensu

markun

Good news! Initial audio playback on the M3!

Rockbox - Rockbox mail archive

Tomorrow I will pick up bertrik's M6SL, so I expect more good news in the future

LTourist

Well that's a great news... Keep going, your're doing a great job

Good luck,
LTourist

pmp

Hi ！


and，
I am glad to heart m3 can support 16bit 96khz music

markun

betrik now also has the FM radio working and the ADC (used to read the remaining battery power and on the M6SP also for the buttons).

One of the biggest challenges now will be the flash management code (the FTL). The iphone uses the same one as the meizu firmware and we could reuse code for it from Main Page - iPhone Linux, but I don't know how much work it would be. Another option is to use some other implementation, but that would mean that rockbox and the official firmware can not be installed at the same time.

pmp: rockbox doesn't support SRS WOW. We have some DSP effects like "crossfeed" which improves listening over headphones and a good parametric equalizer.
All audio is currently resampled to 44.1KHz, so even if you play something with a samplerate of 96KHz it will not sound any better. That might change some day.

pmp

pmp

does it（rockbox on m6） can work on m3？

in china also have a large number of m3 users

mbarry

Yes, work is being done on the M3 as well.

tsuiwah

Rockbox is still alive but his walking is very slow only.

pmp

Do M3‘s new firmware support the games? and APE、FLAC、wav、wv
Audio format？

markun

Some good news. Besides the M3 port getting a bit better every week, Rockbox is now also starting to run on the iPod Nano 2g (2nd gen). You might think this will take time away from the Meizu port, but it's the opposite. The M3 and the Nano 2g have very similar hardware (even the LCD panels used are the same), so a lot of code can be written for one of the ports and should work on the other as well. One important driver we need to write is the FTL (Flash translation layer), so now more people can work on that.

I'll keep you updated.

To pmp: Yes, rockbox supports games and all of those audio codecs:

PluginIndex < Main < TWiki (not all of them are games)
SoundCodecs < Main < TWiki

GeekShadow

Cool Keep us updated

pmp

hi markun;
Do M3‘s new firmware support

pmp

we are a bach of meizu m3 users, we are waiting for RockBox 's new firmware everyday,

I often go to http://www.rockbox.org/ lic ' see meizus news , I deeply hope Markun and betrik would' t give up is work,




http://pmp.5d6d.com/thread-781-1-1.html
http://pmp.5d6d.com/forum-47-1.html

This place is chinese meizus users often come to see Rock Box new,


age,

we deeply hope Markun and betrik would' t give up is work,


[thousands of Meizu PMP users....]