Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread mat holton
Jonathan Gordon wrote: On 17/01/07, mat holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jonathan Gordon wrote: >> I second that. What problem are you trying to solve? > Mostly my boredom. > Also trying to think of ways to add functionality without affecting > the core size. > > As

Re: wps extensions plugin

2007-01-17 Thread mat holton
Jonathan Gordon wrote: I second that. What problem are you trying to solve? Mostly my boredom. Also trying to think of ways to add functionality without affecting the core size. As for making a new plugin to do the whole wps, I thought everyone was against that idea? Just out of interest, wha

Re: rockbox-recorder-20061122 - volume representation messed up

2006-11-28 Thread mat holton
Philipp Pertermann wrote: Paul Louden schrieb: In that context, 90% could actually be considered the same as -10%, as they're both "10% less than the full level" but since you don't have an absolute point of reference with dB, the negative numbers make perfect sense. Actually you do have an ab

Re: rockbox-recorder-20061122 - volume representation messed up

2006-11-23 Thread mat holton
Michael DiFebbo wrote: mat holton wrote: You see, this is the problem when you let audiophiles or programmers design User Interfaces. You have to look at things from the perspective of someone who is not a programmer or Mathematician or Sound Engineer. Hard, I know, for some people to lower

Re: rockbox-recorder-20061122 - volume representation messed up

2006-11-23 Thread mat holton
Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote: Philipp Pertermann wrote: If the percentage- versus decibel-volume-scale is that much of an issue - why not make it an option wether to display the volume as % or as db? Because it is a waste of precious code space on the archos? Linus . I agree 100%. But s

Re: rockbox-recorder-20061122 - volume representation messed up

2006-11-23 Thread mat holton
Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote: mat holton wrote: how many hi-fi's have negative numbers next to the volume knob? None, that's how many. That's odd. Then maybe my hi-fi isn't a hi-fi, because it displays the volume in dB. And I like it. We could use any representation w

Re: rockbox-recorder-20061122 - volume representation messed up

2006-11-23 Thread mat holton
Steve B wrote: ... how many hi-fi's have negative numbers next to the volume knob? Mine does. ;-p Yes. It does. Mine doesn't. Actually it might do. I'll check when I get home. Then why doesn't Spinal Taps? You see, this is the problem when you let audiophiles or programmers design

Re: rockbox-recorder-20061122 - volume representation messed up

2006-11-23 Thread mat holton
Philipp Pertermann wrote: If the percentage- versus decibel-volume-scale is that much of an issue - why not make it an option wether to display the volume as % or as db? Phil It's not, it's only me who's concerned about it apparently :-) And I don't actually care, I merely _ASSUMED_ that

Re: rockbox-recorder-20061122 - volume representation messed up

2006-11-23 Thread mat holton
Mike Holden wrote: Paul Louden wrote: Most audio devices have exactly *one* scheme for volume: Higher numbers are louder. I have some that are 0-10, some that are 1-10 (with only mute being off, 1 is still quiet), some that are 0-40, 0-20, 0-30, 0-100, etc. The only real consistency is that h

Re: rockbox-recorder-20061122 - volume representation messed up

2006-11-23 Thread mat holton
Menachem Shapiro wrote: B"H On 11/22/06, Dominik Riebeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/23/06, Menachem Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After I finished the install, my volume goes from -99 to 12, instead > of 0 to 100. This has been changed quite a while ago and is the normal (and ex

Re: Option rework (was: Re: my next crazy idea... rework the menu system)

2006-08-23 Thread mat holton
On 8/23/06, *Jonas H* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: That's of course an option, but it'd be much nicer to have a dedicated .cfg editor, that allowed you to see the possible values, so you wouldn't have to type them out, you could just select them. I imagined

Re: How easy is it?

2006-08-10 Thread mat holton
mat holton wrote: Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote: Dave Hooper wrote: There's no 'easy way', no. And yes, to port or write a codec for Rockbox you would need to understand how the Rockbox codec system works - and also either how the .tzx file works, or how the iPod linux cod

Re: How easy is it?

2006-08-10 Thread mat holton
Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote: Dave Hooper wrote: There's no 'easy way', no. And yes, to port or write a codec for Rockbox you would need to understand how the Rockbox codec system works - and also either how the .tzx file works, or how the iPod linux codec works -- but take a look at the sour

Re: How easy is it?

2006-08-09 Thread mat holton
Thanks for the reply. So I take it from the reply, there's not (I know it's a long shot) a 'simple' way of converting an iPod linux codec to a Rockbox codec - i.e. it requires me to actually understand both the Rockbox codec system and the method in which a spectrum .tzx file works. iirc the

How easy is it?

2006-08-09 Thread mat holton
Hello, I really want to convert the spectrum .tzx codec that is available for the iPod linux project to Rockbox. It allows spectrum game files to be outputed as audio. Totally cool, no need for a tape recorder to load speccy games. Has any other iPod linux codec been converted? mat

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2006-08-07 Thread mat holton
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