Trekstor Vibez WISHLIST

RubenNYC 2008-01-21, 14:21 #61

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Come on guys, have they not given us enough?!? Don't be so greedy. It's gotta' be missing SOMETHING!
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Since this isn't an official thread, and Defector has made no promises to even look at this thread, I see nothing wrong with a little wishful thinking.

IMHO, 99% of the updates we've seen so far is icing on the cake. Anything beyond that is the cherry on top.

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tom 2008-01-23, 03:30 #62

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Subject: AIFF support

Is it possible to support AIFF?

Interneci 2008-01-23, 13:44 #63

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Quote by RubenNYC on 2008-01-21, 14:21:
IMHO, 99% of the updates we've seen so far is icing on the cake. Anything beyond that is the cherry on top.

If you see it this way, my Vibez with FW 1.15 is now a wedding cake with at least 7 levels...

dfkt 2008-01-24, 11:37 #64

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I'd really love the Vibez to have a pan/balance control. Without that feature, any portable player is useless to me, since both my ears are "differently tuned". My left ear is quieter/deafer than my right one, it's really terrible having that unbalanced feeling while listening to music. Unfortunately, only Cowon players and Rockboxed ones seem to sport pan/balance nowadays. Implementing it on the Vibez would make it gain a real advantage over others (at least for us unbalanced people ;-)

mocelet 2008-01-24, 11:48 #65

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You could add a resistor into the cable for the right ear of your headphones to reduce the volume a little - then it woudl be fixed for any source!

dfkt 2008-01-24, 14:09 #66

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You could add a resistor into the cable for the right ear of your headphones to reduce the volume a little - then it woudl be fixed for any source!

Unfortunately, it's not as easy as that... my left ear changes with my wellbeing.

When I have a cold I have to set my Cowon D2 to pan -5/16, on "normal" days it's usually -2/16. It's a rather fine-tuned thing - I don't even know if you could get resistors for something as low as, say, 1 Ohm. A simple software-based solution would be far better for my needs.

I wonder why most manufacturers stopped implementing pan/balance in their firmwares. Every regular Hifi amp ever made has pan/balance (not talking about "audiophile" mono blocks, of course).

Furthermore, a resistor dongle is kinda clunky, and could possibly change the bass level on one of the channels quite a bit:

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tom 2008-01-24, 14:48 #67

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Balance is a great idea and I agree it's a must since we even have pitchbend. Btw, I'd aldo wish an option for preserving the duration when bending the pitch.

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I wonder why most manufacturers stopped implementing pan/balance in their firmwares. Every regular Hifi amp ever made has pan/balance (not talking about "audiophile" mono blocks, of course).

Demand? Let's face it, for the huge majority of people it would never get used.

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epithetless 2008-01-27, 00:31 #69

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Been playing with my shiny new Vibez for a good portion of the day (happily, happily, happily!), and I'm thinking an in-player option to change the text color on the Player Mode screens (Play Screen/Playback list/Full-screen view) without having to select a whole new scheme would be nice. As it is, the default white text can get pretty unreadable overlaid on light-colored album art, but I'd prefer to keep the Menu Mode colors as they are. [That said, I suppose I could just create a custom scheme with a darker text color (using Tom77's wonderful Vibez Scheme Editor) and load that from the player whenever it's needed...so I guess this isn't that big a deal at all.] An option to select more plain color backgrounds than the default black might be a nice little addition, too.

Interneci 2008-01-27, 01:42 #70

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view) without having to select a whole new scheme would be nice. As it is, the default white text can get pretty unreadable overlaid on light-colored album art,

I think it would help a lot if the Vibez would surround all letters with a thin soft shadow, preferably of a (colour scheme) configurable colour - so you have a black shadow around white letters or maybe just the opposite, a bright glow-like "shadow" around dark text. It's often used for OSDs (see mplayer, for example) and tremendously helps the readibility of the OSD's text.

This would be extremely helpful in my eyes, especially as the default font only has a different coloured border line at the vertical edges, but not at the horizontal edges.

It also does not sound too complicated to implement, but then again I do not know the code, so I cannot estimate the effort it would take...

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I think it would help a lot if the Vibez would surround all letters with a thin soft shadow, preferably of a (colour scheme) configurable colour - so you have a black shadow around white letters or maybe just the opposite, a bright glow-like "shadow" around dark text. It's often used for OSDs (see mplayer, for example) and tremendously helps the readibility of the OSD's text.

This would be extremely helpful in my eyes, especially as the default font only has a different coloured border line at the vertical edges, but not at the horizontal edges.

I agree with this. My attempts at darkening the appropriate text areas were only half successful, as the letters still tend to appear somewhat indistinct and smooshed together. Screen resolution aside, I think this is due to a combination of the font used and the fact that the offset border doesn't surround the entire letter and isn't light enough to produce the "glow" you spoke of. On another note, I would love to see some anti-aliasing going on, but I imagine that's rather unfeasible.

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peter 2008-01-27, 18:08 #72

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It also does not sound too complicated to implement, but then again I do not know the code, so I cannot estimate the effort it would take...

It is not complicated. Some of Sigmatel's post-Vibez demonstrator units had a haloing scheme where, every time it plotted a solid pixel of text, the four adjacent pixels got bumped up to 50% opacity, and the eight pixels adjacent to those got 25% opacity. That made a huge difference even with the bitmap font -- but epithetless is right, it's still not as nice as the anti-aliased font support. Which wasn't a zero amount of work (Freetype, a custom subset of Deja Vu) but wasn't a huge effort. Unfortunately, as Freetype support was never released by Sigmatel in a Vibez firmware, Trekstor would need to re-implement it.

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It is not complicated. Some of Sigmatel's post-Vibez demonstrator units had a haloing scheme where, every time it plotted a solid pixel of text, the four adjacent pixels got bumped up to 50% opacity, and the eight pixels adjacent to those got 25% opacity. That made a huge difference even with the bitmap font --

Sounds like this type of haloing scheme would be a great thing to implement for the Vibez.

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-- but epithetless is right, it's still not as nice as the anti-aliased font support. Which wasn't a zero amount of work (Freetype, a custom subset of Deja Vu) but wasn't a huge effort. Unfortunately, as Freetype support was never released by Sigmatel in a Vibez firmware, Trekstor would need to re-implement it.

Peter

Whaddaya say, defector? ;-)

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defector 2008-01-28, 07:36 #74

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The headache here for me isn't just the freetype support. You need to have a decent font too, this font needs to have cyrillic, greek etc and of course needs to be completely free.

Interneci 2008-01-28, 14:13 #75

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The headache here for me isn't just the freetype support. You need to have a decent font too, this font needs to have cyrillic, greek etc and of course needs to be completely free.

And how about the kind of "halo" support for the current font Peter mentioned? That's more or less what I imagined and I assume it'd solve the current situation of unreadable text on bright backgrounds. (Which is a relatively common situation if you use the album art as a background image.)

BTW, the Deja Vu fonts Peter mentioned have a pretty large and diverse set of unicode glyphs, are free (the are compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines) and are a professional quality font originally created by Bitstream and explicitely designed for low resolution display. They look great and crisp without and with proper antialiasing, so IF the Vibez would support TrueType fonts, that Deja Vu could provide the glphys of choice...

However, I'm explicitely NOT suggesting vector font support, just some means of increasing the contrast between the current font's glpyhs and the background. The simplest solution would still be a lot better than the status quo.

Greetings,

Gunter