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Status of Rockbox on iriver devices
Introduction
The port of Rockbox to the iriver H120/H140 players began in late 2004 and the iriver H340 in August 2005. The H1x0 port is currently in an advanced state of development (including multi-codec audio playback) but the first official release has not yet been made. Rockbox is not yet running on the H340.
IriverPortForNoobs (or IriverPortPourLesNuls for French-speakers) contain installation instructions and further links if you want to try out Rockbox today.
IriverPort contains more technical and background information, and is aimed at developers or the technically curious.
IriverTesting regularly tests the daily build and reports all working or not working features.
Release Roadmap
This roadmap outlines the main features that can be expected to be available in future official releases and their current status. There are no timescales for these releases.
Blocker bugs
The following bugs must be fixed before a release of Rockbox for iriver
| Bug | Status | More info |
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| Crash when loading cfg file | 0% | Rockbox sometimes crashes when loading a config file during music playback. |
| Codecs crashing on invalid input | 0% | The Rockbox codecs do not deal adequately with unexpected input. An example is the FLAC decoder crashing if the input files have id3v2 tags at the start. |
| Low battery protection | 0% | Some protection needed to ensure that Rockbox does not attempt to write to HD when there is insufficient battery power to spinup the drive. This has been discussed on IRC and the forums here, but there is at least one report of the problem on this thread on MisticRiver. |
| Missing voice file breaks playback | 0% | If a language with no voicefile is selected and voice menus are on, music will be interrupted every few seconds by static and squeeks. A serious problem since Rockbox ships without voicefiles. There may be something more to this than what I described here - I tested it with dansk.lang. |
Tasks Remaining
The following features need to be fully implemented and debugged before Rockbox can be considered ready for a first official release:
| Task | Status | More info |
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| Multi-codec audio playback with seeking support | 50% | See SoundCodecs |
| Rockbox Manual including iriver | 0% | In progress - see WikiManual |
| Installer | 0% | The Rockbox installer should include iriver patching/install (if possible?) |
| Remote support | 15% | Currently only buttons are supported - no display. this patch does add remote support, but it's not the correct approach. |
| FM Radio support | 90% | Missing keybindings for presets |
| Recording support | 25% | Recording available through debug menu, not the general Rockbox interface |
| Voice UI | 80% | Supported with a few problems occasio |
Discussion
Release-critical features
I'm of the opinion that a release should do (at least) everything the iriver firmware does so that no feature is "missing", compared to iriver. An exception to this being wma support and features that are less important and/or unlikely to be implemented anytime soon (such as FF/RW with sound). This would include full remote support, FM Radio and Recording. I realize that this pushes the release date even further into the future, but I think that it'd reflect badly on Rockbox to release a version where people will say "Doesn't it even do this? I'm switching back!". Since a lot of people are already using Rockbox and knowing that it's not an official release, I'm not sure there are many ill side effects to waiting. JonasHaeggqvist - 28 Aug 2005
IMO, we are ready for a release when a) Rockbox is extended to support all the hardware in the H1x0; and b) all pre-existing Rockbox features work on the H1x0. New features only possible on the iriver devices are optional. DaveChapman - 13 Sep 2005
Specific items
Regarding the metadata parsing as I saw questioned on IRC, I think what I meant was things like APEv2 in MP3 files (frankly I don't care, but I think some do) and stuff like arbitrary vorbiscomment and ID3v2 fields. Related patches:
JonasHaeggqvist - 13 Sep 2005
CategoryFrontpage: Known bugs and essential missing features for iriver port
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Revision r1.21 - 13 Sep 2005 - 14:50 GMT - DaveChapman
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