snip
all of the above sounds good.
changes to Cancel Sleep Timer (hh:mm), showing the remaining
time.
all of the above sounds good, I do have a suggestion which I think could
be useful for the rockbox voice users such as myself.
I think its very good that the sleep timer menu will now show
What about extending the aiff codec to play a wider variety of aiff files?
I know rockbox supports playback of those files, but at the moment the
files have to meet certain specific conditions in order to play. I have
several files which for some reason rockbox doesn't like.
I am not suggesting
On 06/03/2011 18:59, Mike Giacomelli wrote:
What about extending the aiff codec to play a wider variety of aiff
files?
We already support something like 2 dozen AIFF formats. If you want to
add another I don't mind, but I think this is more like a few hours
work, not a GSOC project.
aah,
Hi list,
I have an idea for streamlining the committal of new features, and
wonder what the list thinks.
At the moment, it seems to me that committal of patches works on the
basis that if someone with svn access is interested enough then a
patch gets committed, but if it doesn't impact on people
On 8/23/10, Dave Hooper d...@beermex.com wrote:
I would say that it's about more than just committing it. If nobody with
commit access cares enough about committing a patch, then who is going to
maintain, bugfix, and document (and translate) that feature, and going
forward ensure that the
(I think it gets more complicated though if the skip mode also works when
paused; if so, you probably don't want it to start playing when you
hit-pause-to-cancel-binary-skip, so maybe a different method is needed... or
just leave it with a hidden 5-sec timeout, really)
I don't understand the
I just mean the converse: if the music was already paused, you probably don't
want to unpause it just to cancel the binary skipping.
OK, well why couldn't you have a long press of pause would cancel?
I don't think that would conflict with anything would it?
so a short press would pause
I just mean the converse: if the music was already paused, you probably don't
want to unpause it just to cancel the binary skipping.
On 12 Aug 2010 18:19, alex wallis alexwallis...@googlemail.com wrote:
(I think it gets more complicated though if the skip mode also works when
paused; if so
What happens if / when you make a mistake and jump the wrong direction?
Well if you press the opposite direction to the one you intended, you are
skipped in the other direction, half the distance of your previous jump, so
of course you have to go back in the other direction to get back to
What happens if / when you make a mistake and jump the wrong direction?
Well if you press the opposite direction to the one you intended, you are
skipped in the other direction, half the distance of your previous jump, so
of course you have to go back in the other direction to get back to
I think David Hall's point was about what happens if you press the wrong
direction. E.g. let's say you're in the middle and you press right by mistake
(you meant to press left). Subsequently, no amount of pressing left again will
ever take you further left than the midpoint. You msut wait for
Well, one problem is that it's a modal interface without any indicator - I
wouldn't personally mind having to wait 5 secs for the binary jump mode to
finish but there's no visible (or audible?) way of knowing. A real undo would
be limited to the availability of target keys (and their original
Hi list.
I am writing to suggest committing fs#10766
this patch adds a new method of moving through audio files to the skip
length option called binary skip.
At first it does sound quite complex, but I have been using this patch for a
while now, and routinely use it when I have a long audio
Hi list.
I only recently realised that in order to take advantage of ccache when
compiling rockbox I actually needed to configure it.
I have a few questions that I hope someone might be able to help me with.
Firstly, what sort of cash size will I need? At the moment, ccache is set to
use
Hi.
I am wondering if someone could please close
fs#10311
for me? As it doesn't look like its possible for a person who opened a task
to close it.
The reason I would like it closed is because since the patch was committed
to change how list voicing works, this task is no longer relevant, as the
Hi list.
I feel I am now ready to set my computer up to run as a build client for
rockbox as compilation seems to work fine for me, using this virtual machine
although I still haven't managed to shrink its virtual disc, I am still
trying to work out how exactly to do that.
But anyway, I have
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:08 PM, alex wallis alexwallis...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Hi list,
Hi Alex ,
It logs the bit about generating dependencies and then just seems to stop
logging.
the command I have been using is
make /rockbox/log.txt
I have used
Hi list,
wondering if someone could please tell me how I log all output of the make
command to a text file?
the reason I want to know is because I have just set up a rockbox build
environment running vinux which is a version of linux made accessible for
the visually impaired out of the box,
snip.
My GSoC project, as I mentioned, will mainly consist of porting the Flite
text-to-speech engine for use in core Rockbox (and, hopefully, plugins). This
will be quite the task and will involve, among other things, adding the
infrastructure for loadable TTS engines and integration alongside
snip
Are there any opinions?
I don't use flac very much, so a slow down doesn't bother me if its not
noticeable.
however, one question, what about the irivers, do they free any ram or gain
any binsize?
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Hi list.
I am wondering if someone could please help me with a problem I am having
downloading the cross compilers using the rockboxdev script, and also answer
a few questions regarding target cpus.
firstly, are there only 3 types of cross compiler I need to download? as the
wiki page on
Hi, many thanks for your reply.
The problem with the shared folder may this: The created folder is a virtual
one and if you share this via vmware, it is still on the vm hard disk. Try
to take the folder on your real OS and share it from there to the machine.
Could you please tell me how I go
Hi list.
I hope this is the write list to post the following question, as it is to do
with rockbox compilation.
Through my connections at college, I have just encountered a person who has
extensive experience of working with linux, and of making it accessible.
I have been in touch with him
Hussein,
I also am seeing this as a possible good way to go for myself too. I work
in vmware but I am unable to get a desent ubuntu or Debian based system
going.
Hi. I realise this is going slightly off topic, but just as a side note
regarding your issue with not having a good vmware
Hi list.
I am wondering if someone might be able to answer the following question for
me about r22419:
which adds a feature to the rockbox info screen displaying the amount of
space used by the skin buffer.
the notes for the revision say
show the skin buffer size as well as the used amount
pray tell... how? doing it the same way as the disk info adds a
useless string, and really if you are relying on voice then there is a
damn good chance you wont be loading big themes so it wont matter
Hi. Following that argument, why bother voicing any of the visual
information under
snip
I need to create a PowerPoint presentation (well, okay, not strictly
PowerPoint; I'm using
OpenDocument Presentation ;) ) to show as I talk, but I will also be
using UI sims to show
off the interface and show people how it works.
Hi. Just a thought, but could you use forgive me I can't
code cleanup.
So if someone could please tell me what file I should be patching instead
of
gwps.c I would appreciate it.
Look through each of the functions your patch changes, and find them in
the current source code. For this you can look at the SVN commit logs or
use
or was your question what happens if you are on a file or folder name and
release the joystick. well, in that event the name is spelled out. I
don't have a problem with this, as if you are just scrolling by single up
or down movements of the joystick you need to keep track of where you
are.
Hi.
I am wondering, would it be possible for this to be resynced please? as it
appears to have gone out of sync recently.
I also tried posting a comment in the tracker with a suggestion for
improvement, if this could be implemented, do you think it might be possible
to commit fs #10336? the
Hi Alex,
I'm probably not going to get time to look at this before the 9th of
August, but I'd very much like to see it committed as long as it doesn't
break anything.
However, I think what would be good would be if your browsing in the
file browser particularly if you are using spelling
Hi Alex,
OK, I've done a quick resync, but not tested the patch - please do so and
report back on Flyspray.
but presumably if your holding down the joystick to go to the end or
beginning of a list of files or menus, you should already know where you
want to be and what you will hear.
the
Hi.
Well I would be very happy to run an environment as a vmware image or
something, however the rockbox images do not include any form of speech
accessibility I guess to keep the size down.
Wasn't there some guy a while back who was going to investigate the
possibility of making an
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, alex wallis wrote:
Would a 1.80 ghz laptop with 512 mb of ram be any use to the system?
Yes it would indeed. We have several much slower machines already
participating and they are doing good!
OK, well I would be very happy to run a build client, but for the moment
Hi.
I was wondering, does anyone know if anything is happening with fs#9067?
I tried e mailing tom ross and leaving a comment in the tracker, but I guess
maybe he doesn't watch the task or didn't get my e mail.
The reason I ask, is that he said several months ago he was hoping to have
free
Hi list.
I was wondering if anyone knows why I might be seeing the following
behaviour.
I have noticed that some times if I am listening to a dynamic playlist of
around four hours give or take, when I get to the last track which would
usually be around ten minutes in length, shortly before the
2009/6/24 alex wallis alexwallis...@googlemail.com:
Hi list.
I was wondering if anyone knows why I might be seeing the following
behaviour.
I have noticed that some times if I am listening to a dynamic playlist of
around four hours give or take, when I get to the last track which would
I believe petur was looking at re-doing the mp3, since the one he posted
earlier has sound coming from only the left channel - which is a bit odd.
yeah, well, I'm a bit overloaded (and tired) as well, so the odd one is
still up there. I'll have a look later on.
No rush, I will wait and grab
Hi list.
I have read the summary of what was decided at the recently concluded
devcon, however I was just wondering if the mp3 of the meetings has been
posted?
as I looked at my messages carefully but couldn't find any reference apart
from the one on daniels site saying he hoped to post it
cleaning.
pondlife wrote:
Sorry - I misread that.
(I do think that the basic menu layout is a bigger usability issue than
the points you've raised though - General settings indeed ;-) )
While the general layout is a problem, aside from replaygain the two
screens I've mentioned are
alex wallis wrote:
but if I understand your idea right, this would mean a user then has two
things to alter if they want to change both pitch and speedh. I like
having the flexibility of the three settings of just pitch, pitch and
speed together and just speed. Removing one would create
Jonathan Gordon wrote:
OK, nice patch... still not as clean as mine (I'm entitled to my
opinion..) but if thats what it takes to be accepted so be it. I'll
test it out tonight
What about the subject of this thread? Will you be reverting r21307?
Regards,
Dave.
My vote is to revert it as
That was Llorean's proposal to get around the frustrating splash which
happens if you try to start playback when there is no playlist
available, and there is no way of knowing that. I would still rather
have done a dismissable splash, but whatever...
2009/6/16 pondlife pondl...@ntlworld.com:
pondlife wrote:
As I see it, the problem is that list entries are never voiced until the
button is released (and 0.25 of a second has passed).
If list.c is modified so that first and last entries are voiced
immediately, I don't think we'd need this beep, right?
That's more or less what
alex wallis wrote:
Having the beep rather than the speech is more efficient than waiting for
two or three letters to be read in a file name.
You don't need to wait for two or three letters to be read. The voice
won't stop unless it's the last item in the list.
A beep
snip
That's neat. Since the lists are circular, I would never have thought
that holding the key down, which normally repeats, would stop at the
list ends. It is inconsistent behaviour from a UI design point of view,
but a handy feature to have. I never new about it either. If it is in
the
snip
Incidentally, searching for a particular subdirectory/file buried in a
directory somewhere is much easier on the iriver H1xx/3xx players with
the LCD remote since one of the buttons allows you to skip through the
list a bunch of tracks at a time.
Could you please tell me how this is
Hi list.
I have another suggestion for committal.
That is the last two files I uploaded to fs #8006
I like the last version there specifically because not only does it give you
a beep when the charger is removed or inserted into the player, but the
beep_tune patch means that a short sequence of
Am Mo, 15.06.2009, 13:58, schrieb alex wallis:
Hi list.
I have another suggestion for committal.
That is the last two files I uploaded to fs #8006
I like the last version there specifically because not only does it give
you
a beep when the charger is removed or inserted into the player
To add to the beep feature discussion in WM6 when you have lots of
contacts and start scrolling through them for a few seconds you get a
large letter appear on the screen which you then scroll through the
alphabet rather than the contacts. This allows you to jump to the
contact beginning with
alex wallis wrote:
I agree about not over using the beep, however do you really need a huge
speech message to tell you either the player is charging or the charger
has been disconnected? the beep_tune patch allows a sequence of beeps
differing in duration and length to play to give us
as WM, I would say that is far outweighed by
the fact it would make navigation a lot more efficient.
What's your idea anyway? maybe if you bounce it off the list it might spark
a further idea in someone else.
2009/6/15 alex wallis alexwallis...@googlemail.com:
To add to the beep feature
Barmy idea time!
If you'd like beeps rather than spoken announcements, perhaps you could
make your own voice file with beeps in...? You could have the whole lot
in morse ;-)
pondlife
Lol that's quite funny. Unfortunately I don't no morse, but also I should
imagine it would be very
2009/6/15 Dominik Riebeling dominik.riebel...@gmail.com
We don't. We beep on manual track changes. Not on playlist end or
automatic track changes. (At least not on my e200 with a current build
and Track Skip Beep enabled.)
I think Thomas means that we *should*, not that we
snip
They're simply two very different notifications, they just happen to both
beep as their means of notifying you. That being said, I'm not really sure
I understand why an end-of-list beep is necessary. If you're looking at
the screen, it obviously isn't. If you're managing blind and using
Thomas Martitiz wrote:
I can imagine that it speeds up browsing for the blinds. And that's what
Alex is reporting. Why can't you believe it?
Best regards,
I'm trying to understand exactly how this feature is used because so far
he's only described it as it lets me identify the end of
alex wallis wrote:
however I just did a test, and once I was holding the joystick in a given
direction to scroll through the menu, the speech wasn't playing, which I
would find annoying if it was constantly trying to say things. The only
reason I knew scrolling to the end of the main menu
Hi just wondering when fs #8894 was committed earlier today was part of it
missed out?
as I am fairly sure that the last patch that was put up made changes to the
manual in the pitch screen section to talk about the time stretch feature of
adjusting speed without changing pitch.
however, I
Hi just wondering when fs #8894 was committed earlier today was part of it
missed out?
as I am fairly sure that the last patch that was put up made changes to the
manual in the pitch screen section to talk about the time stretch feature of
adjusting speed without changing pitch.
Alex,
2009/6/12 alex wallis alexwallis...@googlemail.com
Thanks for the information I did not know the manual was only built once a
day.
The title says on the manual page Daily built manuals. Could we make it
more obvious ?
Lol I guess not, normally when I am browsing a page I am
Rafaël Carré wrote:
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Le Sat, 30 May 2009 15:40:00 -0500,
Scott Berry scottbb1...@gmail.com a écrit :
Hello there,
At the moment I only have Windows. I do use Linux but do not have it
set up for my Net book. Is there a way to do this through
2009/5/26 alex wallis alexwallis...@googlemail.com:
Hi list.
Today I decided to sit down and have a real serious go at getting fs#8630
working with current svn code.
Luckily two of the files were fairly easy to fix, and I was able to work
out
where the code should go in the latest file
Hi list.
Today I decided to sit down and have a real serious go at getting fs#8630
working with current svn code.
Luckily two of the files were fairly easy to fix, and I was able to work out
where the code should go in the latest file versions.
However, I am not at all sure about what needs to
Hi.
I have a question about using svn that I hope someone can help me with. How
do I get a diff created showing me the differences between the local version
of a file, and the latest version on svn?
I tried the command svn diff talk.c from the apps folder, and my computer
sat there for a bit
Am 19.05.2009 22:10, schrieb Jonathan Gordon:
http://google.com
2009/5/19 alex wallis alexwallis...@googlemail.com:
Hi.
I have a question about using svn that I hope someone can help me with. How
do I get a diff created showing me the differences between the local version
of a file
alex wallis wrote:
I no there are differences between my local and svn copies, as I have
got r.20976 on my computer, and talk.c was updated in r.20977. The reason
I want to know about the exact differences is because a few patches I run
have stopped working so I want to see if its just
Hi.
I know that one of the gsoc projects is to try to introduce hid to rockbox.
I have read the hid entry on wikipedia, so I understand basically what it
is, I was wondering is this going to make life for programmers easier, or
will actual rockbox users see benefits from the introduction of
Hi.
I have a question about the connection of an h140 to my pc.
Before rockbox is put on a 140, when you connect it through USB to the
computer the player automatically switches on and powers up. However when
you install rockbox, you always have to switch the player on manually then
connect
I have read the hid entry on wikipedia, so I understand basically what it
is, I was wondering is this going to make life for programmers easier, or will
actual rockbox users see benefits from the introduction of hid?
If so, what kind of benefits might they be?
Alex, my GSoC work
Hi.
I was wondering, could I have some guidance with compiling rockbox utility
under windows? as I have decided its probably a good idea for me to be able
to build my own binaries when patches for it are posted in order to test for
accessibility.
I have tried to follow the directions given
Hi Alex,
I didn't mean your question was OT, I meant my interjection! I was simply
trying to say that once you can use RBUtil then the pool issue is a
non-issue.
If you could maybe have a sighted user configure the TTS options in RBUtil
(a one-off thing), then it sounds like you'll be
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Dominik Wenger domon...@googlemail.com
wrote:
The current bug in rbutil prevents all sapi function from working.
So no, unless this bug is fixed (or the windows binary is built with a
earlier version if Qt) no voice generation with Sapi will work.
The latest
alex wallis schrieb:
Yes eventually I would like to switch to using rbutil for voice
generation, however as well as the jaws issues, there is still that bug
in qt which has been reported that means voices are not listed, meaning
if I understand it right, that once I select sapi I can't
alex wallis schrieb:
Firstly none of the boxes with number values that change when you press
up or down arrows are announced when you make changes, you have to tab
out of and back into them, so the same problem from 1.2.1 is still
present.
Ofcourse, we didnt change anything
alex wallis schrieb:
But are the Titles for this Boxes correctly spoken ?
Do you mean the titles for the combo boxes? if so, no none of the titles
for combo boxes are spoken.
Could you please make sure again, that you are using the new version of
rbutil (the link bluebrother gave you
voice clips
alex wallis wrote:
Hi.
For some reason, I can't get the pool command to work with cygwin to
store voice clips.
I have tried using both pool=voice and pool=/voice
You need to write POOL in all uppercase.
Many thanks for this, I didn't realise the case was important, I
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:51 PM, alex wallis
alexwallis...@googlemail.com wrote:
I see that Domonoky has posted a patch to fs #10205 that should deal with
some accessibility problems.
I am happy to test it, if someone could make available a binary including
this patch.
Binary of current svn
as a general rule... in the unix world (so cygwin also) case is always
important... and even if it wasnt.. when someone types POOL=blaa it
should be a hint that it might be important
I appreciate what you say, and I will bare that in mind for the future. The
pool command is now working. I
alex wallis wrote:
I get the feeling that huge comments are not encouraged on the tracker.
May I ask where this impression comes from?
The entire point of the tracker is for bug reports or patches and the
comments on those reports and patches. These comments can be any size
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:35 PM, alex wallis
alexwallis...@googlemail.com wrote:
OK, the version of the utility I am running is v 1.2.1 is this not
compiled
with the latest svn code?
No. Rockbox Utility isn't build regularly as the main Rockbox itself
is. Instead, we make releases every
Hi.
I have an idea which I would like to see added to the feature request
section if discussion can agree that it would be a useful feature.
What I would like to see would be the ability for the rockbox utility to
save voice clips that it uses to make a voice in a user specifiable folder
for
Hi.
I was just looking at the wiki entry for rockbox utility, and I was looking
at the features of the utility that it lists. There are a few that I can't
find.
So I am wondering are these just accessibility issues, or are they not
features of the rockbox utility?
In the feature list the wiki
Hi.
Just to report, that rockbox installation on player is accessible with jaws,
its possible to read the status of installation.
Uninstallation is also accessible, I am able to set the options fine.
I haven't tested install of voice file, but my feeling is that there is no
reason why this
Hi list.
I was just doing some research into qt, and I ran across a document
detailing a lot of features that allow qt applications to work with
technology such as screen readers.
I guess implementing this would require a lot of code rewriting, especially
as the utility isn't written in the
snip
Well, maybe it would be best to start with the basics: how do you (or
in general, how do blind people) expect it to work? Say, you
downloaded this program (which doesn't need to be Rockbox Utility) and
started it. You don't know the program, so how do you figure how to
use it? Are you
Hi.
As promised I have been having a look at the rockbox utility with jaws, and
actually I must say since I last had a propper look at it a lot of
accessibility problems seem to have been ironed out.
However there are a few major ones that I can still see that I will now
describe. These were
Hi.
I was just wondering if there has been any improvements made to fs #9067. As
I think that Tom Ross said he aimed to try to commit after the 3.2 release
which I believe occurred fairly recently.
I am looking forward to seeing this committed.
Hi.
I have a nice load of aac files that won't play with rockbox, they are all
part of the same album, so I suspect I will probably only need to send you
one file.
So just wondering, do you want me to e mail it to you?
or should I upload it to a site such as send space. the first track which
Unless somebody speaks up it will be June 19-21. Please update the wiki page
if you intend to come or not, and if you plan to stay in the hotel I
arranged. All info about this can also be found in the wiki page.
Hi I am considering trying to make it to this years event, but have a few
alex wallis wrote:
Hi list.
I was just keeping my usual eye on the rockbox site today and noticed a
few things I am wondering if someone could please explain.
Firstly in the news section, what exactly does
2009-04-01
After months of negotiations, Apple has finally agreed to our terms
Are you in a timezone where it is not yet midday?
I don't understand your question.
I am currently digging through the irc logs, and what I am reading is
beginning to disturb me I really really hope rockbox hasn't sold out to
apple and is not restricting development to a few hand picked
Noone sold out... We merely came to a mututal agreement with the fine
people at Apple to discontinue support for all other targets and work
exclusivly on ipods and their upcoming devices... The great news here
(other than the wonderful cash bonus most of us will get :D ) is the
coming support
Hi list.
I haven't really been following the gsoc 2009 ideas, however having scene a
few mails about the idea of intigrating tts into the rb core I felt I should
write to the list
and express a few concerns.
For anyone who hasn't read the page with the proposal it is located at
Hi list.
I have a question about location of information in lang files that I hope
someone can help me with.
What I would like to know is does it matter in a lang file where information
is put, provided the rules are followed with regards to formatting and
conventions of structure.
For
The order of the phrases in the lang files do not matter. Genlang will sort
them automatically and the strings will be loaded to the correct array index by
lang_load().
Thanks for that information.
Regarding FS #9067, make sure you are using the latest patch posted in the task
lang files
The voice changes in FS #9067 are more of a proof of concept at this point.
Splashes and menus should be automatically voiced due to the ID2P() macro.
Blackjack also includes some explicit voice changes and in theory you could
probably play a hand or two without using the screen.
Maybe we should just see if various FLOSS file browsers have a common
natural sort, and use it, so that our files are likely to show up in the
host's browser the same order as they show up in ours?
Now this idea I like, personally I think sorting should work the same way it
does in
alex wallis wrote:
Now this idea I like, personally I think sorting should work the same way
it does in windows.
Windows isn't FLOSS and I very much doubt their algorithm is public.
I see, I didn't no this, just out of interest what is floss exactly?
I guess if people don't like
I am more in favour of setting up a mechanism where spare buttons
could be mapped flexibly to much more than just adding tracks to
playlists..., jump to fm/rec/some menu item/etc
Hi. Now please correct me if I am wrong, but what you wrote above sounds a
bit like having the ability to
Hi list.
I am sorry for writing on this topic. However I am having real problems
getting my h140 reassembled.
I was wondering is there anyone in the UK who knows about assembling of
h140s who might be able to physically help?
I wasn't able to do any of the physical disassembly myself as I am
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