Hello, i'm posting this to find out if there is any update to this subject, as i recently got my slick Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux PDA

there are a couple of nice players out there for this baby, like XMMS embedded for Qtopia (GNU) and tkcPlayer (commercial); however their support is limited to .mp3 ( ) and .ogg ( )

any help would be appreciated, being able to listen mpc on the road would be a hell of an experience

thanks a lot in advance

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btw don't they look sweet?

I actually have a Sharp Zaurus myself, and was also interested in this. I contacted the OpiePlayer2 developers a few months back and pointed them to the fixed point decoder source, but haven't heard from them since. They didn't seem to be particularly interested in the port after discussing some issues with them, after it was made clear that MPC is mainly used for moderate to high bitrates more than low bitrates. They said they would "look into it" but that it wasn't a priority.

If I remember, they said that the OpiePlayer2 plugins were basically integerized Xine plugins, so it might not be particularly difficult for anyone to make this port if they wanted. Also, I believe that mppdec runs faster enough that even cross-compiling it with floating point emulation would be enough for it to still run realtime on the Zaurus. I've been meaning to try this myself at some point, but haven't gotten around to it.

Considering the speed of the standard (floating point) decoder, you could just try compiling it on your Zaurus.

Dibrom: thanks for the quick reply.. I contacted theKompany.com asking for musepack support @ tkcPlayer, and after convincing them about the audience that would be interested in such thing, I pointed them to c.b.2000's page.. only thing that limited them was, license restrictions. do we have any arguments to this so that i let them know? i wouldn't mind paying $10 (avg. price for their players) for a nice mpc player.. and the quality of every tkc app is high. imagine a 340Mb or 1Gb IBM microdrive and this app on your Z.. leetness


dev0: thanks for the reply, however i have no programming/coding background whatsoever, i come from the design world