HI
webfish;486736 Wrote:
> Hi just wondering how this was going any
> updates what is the status
>
> can i help.
> is it worth while setting up a site for this endeavour?
> mobile squeeze over HSDPA(3g) is my goal in mp3 players
>
I spent quite some time on the major issues, but haven't made any real
progress.
- Integrating it better with windows mobile: There seems to be no
way to make a SDL (the underlying Graphics API) app behave like a
normal application, it is only usable as a fullscreen app, it does not
even notice, when it is sent to the background. SDL has only minimal
support for WM, so unlikely that something will change soon.
- Memory problems: Squeezeplay memory usage is really close to the
memory limit on WM right now(and I had to do a lot of patching SDL and
Jive, to bring it down to the current level). Major obstacles are that
there a log of images used and the text handling (the text is drawn
to a bitmap first and then blitted). Windows Mobile 7 will lift the
memory limit, but it probably will be a while before it is released.
- Audio Stuttering: I tried a lot of things, played with the
buffering, used assembly in the time critical parts, nothing really
helped. As soon as there is drawing /scrolling going on, the audio
can't keep up. So using WM as Softsqueeze is not really an option
right now, newer devices might be better in this regard.
Of course when I heard about the new Squeezebox Touch I was excited to
have the new GUI running on Windows Mobile.
It looked nice, but it was incredibly slow , the memory problems were
much worse, because there are more icons, more text etc.
I tried optimizing memory and speed, but gave up after a while.
Heimiko;484554 Wrote:
> Can any of you guys share a recent diff file so I can try to compile a
> recent version of SqueezePlay? (please mention the version
> nr against what version the diff is made)
>
> Are there any intentions at all that there will be a pre-compiled WM
> version?
>
I will make a new patch against trunk of 7.5. It is compiling already
but does not run yet. I do not know how long I will need to fix the
problems.
So if anyone wants to have a go at the code. I won't do much work
anymore, but I can help, if anyone has questions or for some small bug
fixes.
When I started the port, it was fun, but after a while, it was too
frustrating hitting so many problems in WM or SDL. At the time, there
was no usable WM application for controlling the Squeezebox, now there
is SlimControl. Besides now I have an IPhone, and it is hard to beat
IPeng;)
Rudolf
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