I think i have tracked down my Rockbox crashing bug...

2006-01-31 Thread George Styles
... i believe its related to the fact that Rockbox doesnt check a file exists in a playlist before trying to play it. If you generate a playlist of the form ./folder/song.mp3 ./folder2/song2.mp3 it crashes on the 'loading' screen every time. If you change it to /music/folder/song.mp3

My vote for BMP cache removal

2006-01-31 Thread Daniel Stenberg
Hi I'm not at all fond of the BMP cache thing that was added the other day. I think it bloats code, is complex and is the wrong answer to the minor performance problems we might have when loading WPS configs with large amounts of pics. I'd rather see us move towards using a single BMP with

Re: My vote for BMP cache removal

2006-01-31 Thread Christi Alice Scarborough
Thom Johansen wrote: I think it should be taken out as soon as possible. It's flawed in the sense that it can't possibly detect whether the cache is invalid without destroying the entire purpose of the cache in the first place. We've already had a user coming in asking questions about why his

Re: About Rockbox utility, for Christi

2006-01-31 Thread Christi Alice Scarborough
Alessio Lenzi wrote: I am a Rockbox blind user , i found your post dealing with your utility to simplify Rockbox installation and upgrade reading this list. I immediately installed the program, i think it's really useful. Since last december have you released any other version? Im afraid the

Re: My vote for BMP cache removal

2006-01-31 Thread Jens Arnold
On 31.01.2006, Daniel Stenberg wrote: Hi I'm not at all fond of the BMP cache thing that was added the other day. I think it bloats code, is complex and is the wrong answer to the minor performance problems we might have when loading WPS configs with large amounts of pics. I'd rather see

Re: My vote for BMP cache removal

2006-01-31 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
There seems to be an additional area for gaining performance - it was reported that WPS loading on iPod is way faster than on iriver. The CPU speed is similar, so I can only imagine 2 possible causes: (1) The iriver ATA driver needs optimising. (2) The endian swap in fat.c. My measurements