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Posted by Ignoramus18705 on January 31, 2008, 10:52 pm
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16855228017
This is a portable music and video player. I bought it for my wife as
a present (with 30 GB of memory). It arrived and looked interesting.
It does not require any "software", to the computer it looks like a
USB drive, which it is. So you just copy your movies to it for
viewing.
It works fine and handles very many video formats. My wife likes
movies, so, I hope, she will enjoy it.
When it booted up, it looked kind of suspiciously linux-y with nice
blue colors and menus. So I did some searches and learned that it is
indeed a Linux device. It runs Linux OS inside. Cowon used GPLed
software, so they were obligated to release their source code. Here's
something I found for a previous player.
http://www.cowonglobal.com/download/gnu/cowon_a2_bsp_source_070622.tar.gz
Very interesting. Many consumer devices, for example TiVO, are also
Linux based.
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Posted by William Noble on February 1, 2008, 2:23 am
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Ivan - instead of an old fashioned droppng resistor, use a 3 terminal
regulator to provide a nice stable 6.3 volts to the gauges - or just use a
7805 and provide 5volts - the gauges will be OK with that too.
and, you may wish to have negative ground, which is helpful for a newer
radio, just remember the ammeter will read backwards
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16855228017
>
> This is a portable music and video player. I bought it for my wife as
> a present (with 30 GB of memory). It arrived and looked interesting.
>
> It does not require any "software", to the computer it looks like a
> USB drive, which it is. So you just copy your movies to it for
> viewing.
>
> It works fine and handles very many video formats. My wife likes
> movies, so, I hope, she will enjoy it.
>
> When it booted up, it looked kind of suspiciously linux-y with nice
> blue colors and menus. So I did some searches and learned that it is
> indeed a Linux device. It runs Linux OS inside. Cowon used GPLed
> software, so they were obligated to release their source code. Here's
> something I found for a previous player.
>
> http://www.cowonglobal.com/download/gnu/cowon_a2_bsp_source_070622.tar.gz
>
> Very interesting. Many consumer devices, for example TiVO, are also
> Linux based.
>
> i
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Posted by Wes on February 1, 2008, 7:50 pm
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>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16855228017
>
>This is a portable music and video player. I bought it for my wife as
>a present (with 30 GB of memory). It arrived and looked interesting.
>
On another similar note. I recently put rockbox on my Sansa E250R mp3
player. www.rockbox.org Many electronic devices are getting reflashed with
user generated software.
http://openwrt.org/ has software to run linux on your consumer router.
Wes
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Posted by Leon Fisk on February 2, 2008, 3:20 pm
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>On another similar note. I recently put rockbox on my Sansa E250R mp3
>player. www.rockbox.org Many electronic devices are getting reflashed with
>user generated software.
Hi Wes, Thanks for that info/link. I wasn't aware of that
project and it looks pretty cool. I'm most interested to see
what they have done with scheduled FM radio recording.
I downloaded a few of the manuals and will have to do some
research/reading now :)
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Posted by Ignoramus17662 on February 2, 2008, 6:27 pm
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>>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16855228017
>>
>>This is a portable music and video player. I bought it for my wife as
>>a present (with 30 GB of memory). It arrived and looked interesting.
>>
>
> On another similar note. I recently put rockbox on my Sansa E250R mp3
> player. www.rockbox.org Many electronic devices are getting reflashed with
> user generated software.
>
> http://openwrt.org/ has software to run linux on your consumer router.
>
I looked at rockbox and was very impressed. I am not as interested in
OpenWRT because most of my computers are on a LAN and not on the wifi
subnet.
i
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>
> This is a portable music and video player. I bought it for my wife as
> a present (with 30 GB of memory). It arrived and looked interesting.
>
> It does not require any "software", to the computer it looks like a
> USB drive, which it is. So you just copy your movies to it for
> viewing.
>
> It works fine and handles very many video formats. My wife likes
> movies, so, I hope, she will enjoy it.
>
> When it booted up, it looked kind of suspiciously linux-y with nice
> blue colors and menus. So I did some searches and learned that it is
> indeed a Linux device. It runs Linux OS inside. Cowon used GPLed
> software, so they were obligated to release their source code. Here's
> something I found for a previous player.
>
> http://www.cowonglobal.com/download/gnu/cowon_a2_bsp_source_070622.tar.gz
>
> Very interesting. Many consumer devices, for example TiVO, are also
> Linux based.
>
> i