Download the New Firmware Editor From Here
 

Ok Folks, Here it is,

http://www.dancemammal.com/downloads...er-1.0.0.0.rar


Info :
Version : 1.0.0.0 (Beta)
Chipset : Rockchip / Actions
Firmware Decryption Supported : No
Condition : Fully working
Help file : Included
Source Included : Not Yet



Features
Load and save Firmware files
Load and save lst Files (RKLogoEdit Compatible)
Delete, Create and Edit lst files
Update Firmware with new images

and lots of other stuff


Have Fun

Dancemammal

Hi Dancemammal,

Did you create this yourself?
I'm very impressed with it.
Going to try this and give you feedback.

If anyone else can give feedback, that would be great.

Re: Download the New Firmware Editor From Here
 

Hi,

Feedback would be great, software only gets better with input from the users.
On the next stable release I will include the source code, I would prefer everyone not to just rip off the code and make their own version, I think it is better if we work together, and make an application worth using.

You may find it is a little bias toward the RockChip, as this is the model I have,
I have added some features to help the software access the Actions Chip Firmware, but I wont be able to test it properly, also some of the Actions Firmware is encrypted with a hash, I can break it, but it will take a little time.


Everyone please remember, this is the first release so there may be bugs!

Cheers
Dancemammal

Re: Download the New Firmware Editor From Here
 

This is gonna be the best MP4 theming software EVER! :D

Like the nice big display area, it's gonna help a lot with checking the picture alignment.
Had a go and it's perfect with the Onda 858LE firmware.
It seems to have a problem at the moment finding the correct picture start offset for other Rockchip firmwares though.

I had this problem with my 2" Rockchip firmware, I guess the start offset is hard coded for the Onda firmware? :roll:

I typed in the correct offset for my firmware (hex 3C2ED8, dec 3944152)and the first .bmp lined up nicely, but as soon as I clicked on the next entry in the .lst the offset reverted back to the one for Onda 858LE.

Gonna love using this software it's absolutely wonderfull! :wink:

Re: Download the New Firmware Editor From Here
 

Just tried it and is fantastic!
It's really fast to find images now.
I have some requests :
1-Could you add some keyboard shortcuts to move the offset one line at time instead of one pixel at time?It will speed up finding the starting offset of images.
2-Could you make a button that automatically add a lst line with the values inserted in the editor?

Re: Download the New Firmware Editor From Here
 

Glad you like it, makes the effort worthwhile,

Ok Guys,
Keep em coming,
so far I got : keyboard shortcuts and problem with start offset, no biggie

I see, you want the width and height passed to the item editor! Ok


We may have to change the lst format (sorry I know) but this would make it easier to find the start offset for the images in each firmware, this change should not affect RKLogoEdit, but would help us.

We also need a name for the application , answers in a forum please, best name wins....


Cheers
Dancemammal

Re: Download the New Firmware Editor From Here
 

And also the offset,so you basically save the item you are seeing,once you know it's displayed correctly.
Regarding the name,i suck on thinking names,so i pass :lol:

great work dance

when creating new lst entry i am unsure what many of the parameters are i.e.

type
sub type
flag

etc..
i have created lst files before using RK and never really bothered with these bits - what are they exactly and if not major can they just have defaults in the box that can be edited if desired - this would make entering new items quicker

great work though - very impressed with your speed and skill

NAME

"Rock Solid" - MP4 skinning tool

ItemType is whether you want to modify text or bitmaps
e.g.
ItemType=1 //for bitmaps
ItemType=2 //for text

if you put a "//" in the .lst then it is ignored so can be used for comments.

an entry like:-
DefaultOffSetT=0x3AECA4
sets the Offset for Text mode.

The text modyfing facility works in RKLogoEdit, but it is very poor and I think it has been abandoned now, I did create a working .lst for text editing in RKlogoEdit, but I didn't find it very useful compared to RKMenu which seems to have a sort of "intelligent text search"

not sure about what "subtype" or "flag" means though.

sorry for going a bit "off topic" but then some of this info might be useful for the new firmware editor.

Like the name "Rock Solid" but might offend the actions users how about "RockAction"

Re: Download the New Firmware Editor From Here
 

hi Dancemammal,
you said "some of the Actions Firmware is encrypted with a hash" do you check the soft that i told you "mp3fwtools"?

http://www.mympxplayer.org/tool-mp3f...ish-df675.html

this soft can open actions fw encrypted. if you look into the folder, there is a file dll, call it EncryptDll.dll maybe can help you to break the hash.

good luck

Hi Dance,
today i tried it with a firmware for the new rockchip hardware rk27xx(the lasest until now was rk2608).
It does work as the images are not encrypted but there are really too many different sizes of images to found all of them,there isn't even anymore the usual image for each menu,there is a single background and many small images for each menu.
Some thing i noticed in the editor about the refresh of the preview image :
-When inputing a new width or height manually,the image is not updated
-when using the keyboard arrows to increase or decrease the width or height the preview is not updated.

Re: Download the New Firmware Editor From Here
 

Hi dancemammal,

Just been thinking about the .lst files and the New firmware Editor.

RKLogoEdit has embedded .lst, It's very convenient but I think this would be a problem to maintain because of all the loads of new firmwares that come out.

How about having a "default.lst" that the program reads in automatically if present, then the user can just replace this with the one for their own player...

keep up the good work it is much appreciated by everyone :wink:

Re: Download the New Firmware Editor From Here
 

Hi All,

Dont worry, I have not forgotton to update the software, all of your comments have been useful, Thanks,

I will be posting an updated version soon, with your comments noted and implimented, Also if possible, I will have it decrypting Actions firmware.

As for the Lst files, I thought of having a folder structure that went with the program install, with the Lst files for some of the more popular models, rather that have them hardcoded into the app, this would be easy, as the members here could provide the lst files that they use for their model.


The New Chip (RK27) has all new features like moving icons and slider controls, I think we may have to look at that when it arrives, also if someone wants to provide a link to the RK27 firmware, Ill have a look.


Cheers
Dancemammal

Re: Download the New Firmware Editor From Here
 

Hi dancemammal,

I have working LST files for different Teclast C280 fw versions. If you don't already have them, please let me know.

regards
zak4

Re: Download the New Firmware Editor From Here
 

Hi All,

I have no Lst files, except those from the RK Editor, if you wish to have your files included in a release of the Firmware Editor, then mail them to me at
dancemammal at dancemammal.com (replace at with @)
I wil include them in the zip.

Cheers