Re: [S1mp3-devel] Final list of (potential) features of SWAN

[Wladston V. F F. <wla...@gm...>]

My compliments. The list is VERY good. Congratulations!! :)


On 5/11/06, Jeroen Domburg <je...@sp...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The deadline has passed, and these are the features we'd like to see in
> SWAN which are also technically feasible:
>
> Features of SWAN:
> Technical:
> - Easy and open SDK / IDE so programmers who are only used to C on a PC
> can
>    program apps for the player
> - (Semi-)multitasking: the music will keep playing even when you switch t=
o
>    another application
> - Hardware-independant API for programs: the core will handle hardware
>    differences between players
> - Extendible: when newer players come out with more hardware, only some
> core
>    modules will have to be written or modified to take care of the
> hardware. The
>    core will stay backwards compatible with existing libs / apps.
> - Dynamic loader: by loading only the libraries needed for the currently
>    running apps, apps can have a size of over 60K.
> - User applications have access to the USB port: this means the mp3 playe=
r
> can
>    be turned into a LCD to display info from the PC, used as a sound card=
,
>    human interface device, ...
> - User apps can take over the DSP: that way, things like recognition of
> voice
>    commands, decoding of DTMF, using the DSP as a coprocessor for eg 3d
> games, ... will be possible
> - Main menu is an app on it's own, so if the main menu doesn't suit the
> user, it
>    can be interchanged just as any other app.
>
> User experience:
> - Plays a wide range of formats: ogg/mp3/wma/flac/wav/mod/xm/...
> - Skinnable UI, for the mp3-models as well as the mp4-models
> - New apps (games, utilities, ...) can be downloaded and just dropped in =
a
>    certain folder, and the player can make use of them
> - Mini OSD player applet: press MODE+PLAY and the current app freezes and
> a
>    tiny overlay window is displayed on screen, the play+stop+... buttons
> can now be used to modify currently playing music
> - Lets the user decide what app to boot into on startup
> - UI can be set to voice mode, in which the user gets the idea of what to
> do
>    by spoken word. Handy for player-in-jacket-must-watch-road situations
> or for deaf users.
> - Autodetecting of hardware on install so the right set of core modules
> will
>    be installed without needing much input from the user: one distributio=
n
>    package fits all players
> - Main menu is an app on it's own, changing the main menu to something
> else is
>    only a matter of exchanging ap files
>
> Applications that can be developed for SWAN:
> - Text reader
> - Picture viewer
> - Games (Pong/Tetris/Solitaire/Pacman/... clones, more for the mp4
> players)
> - Voice recorder
> - Phone dialer
> - Offline mail reader (drop .eml-files in a dir and you can read them on
> the
>    road)
> - ...and many others.
>
>
> Jeroen
>
>
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Wladston Viana Ferreira Filho
Belo Horizonte - MG, Brasil
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