Why don't we try to write our own firmware??

[Kivin]

Yes. It would be greate. We can create a mirror.

[d12nv]

i could do the GUI work with the new firmwares..

I have all the programs and know what looks good..

kool

[lite]

You guys put together £300 and you can hire a chinese guy to do it for you , and he/she would do a great job , you could get it to configure itself , you put the firmware onto the player via flashing it onto there 9 You make sure you have alot of battery life) , you would choose the right one for the correct actionchipset , then it flashed throguh all the drivers for the buttons and you hold down the menu button , as soon as it detects a imput it saves that config , then it does through all the screen drivers and as soon as the screen shows a image you press the menu button , then it goes through all the other drivers neccasary , radio ect till setup is complete , this firmware would be rather large but it can delete parts of it that are no longer nessasary ( The firmware can edit its own flash) once all that process is done you have a working firmware and you only need a menu system ect coded , a universal firmware for all actionchipset players...

[dr.strangelove]

I posted a similar thread here: http://mympxplayer.org/rockbox-open-...re-vt5810.html about trying to port the Rockbox open-source jukebox firmware to these generic/"chipod" players. I'm not a programmer, but it seems like Rockbox would be easier to port, because you do not need to write a whole new firmware for the player, just patch it so it will boot the Rockbox software. You should check it out and see what you think: www.rockbox.org

[fjrg76]

Thanks Dr. Strangelove, very useful info, I'll take it a look closer =)

[lite]

rockbox is designed for proper players , these shitty amv players are single processor pieces of rubbish , it will not be possible to do that. not enough processing power

[Sersoft]

yeah rockbox usually works on Ipod nanos or creative players

for your informatin iPods and other non-cheap players most have the same CPU as your game boy advance and nintendo DS which is very customizeable and powerful(for an mp3 player) and the chipods are far from that... that's why we can't put rockbox/linux on it.. if anybody does a linux port to s1mp3 it will only be the console prompt (like msDOS) no more

[dr.strangelove]

Ahh, I see. I'm not really familiar with the various processors involved with these and other media players. I knew the others had heftier hardware, but didn't know the generics/chipods were so stripped down.

Still, it shouldn't be completely impossible to get Rockbox ported to this type of processor I wouldn't think. Because of the lower hardware capabilities, it seems like you could probably strip down Rockbox quite a bit (we'll be polite and say "streamline" it ) for these lesser players. It would be interesting at the very least to even get something like Rockbox to boot with basic functionality, just as a proof of concept. The only reason I brought Rockbox up is that it seems quite portable, and there's already a pretty significant code base to draw from as opposed to rewriting everything from scratch.

[lite]

No , its impossible to port rockbox to this player , No powerfull enough , I doubt it would even load the boot

[white specter]

well it may not work on amv players, however maybe rockchip has a chance.

ive already begun a post to help develope a FW for rockchip mp3/mp4 players here, and any help would be greatly appreciated.

PS: has anyone looked into embedded linux?