Wave/Mp3 Recorder and Player (DIGICIII-Digic II)?

[jetzt]

hi,
i just thought about the audio-output of my A710is and why it isn't possible to listen to mp3s.
(I know that it's only mono, but that's equal for me as I'm not a HI-FI_Freak. With special headphones you can hear it at both ears.)
There is another problem, too: If you attatch a cable to the audio-port of the camera the display is turned off.
But again that's not too bad for me, as I normally create playlists and listen through them comletely.

Thanks for any comments.
And if you find any mistakes, keep them, my mother tongue isn't English. However I hope, that it is read- / understandable.

[Tiger]

hi ALL
is it possible make a Wave(Mp3) Recorder and  Player for DIGICIII-Digic II by Chdk?

Regards

[Tiger]

hi all

is it actually possible or not?

Best Regards

[wontolla]

Although your idea sounds interesting from a "challenge" point of view, having an mp3player in the camera would lead to:

1Gb of mp3 files in memory card.
That means: 1Gb less worth of pictures.
IMHO that is not helping with the overall photographic experience.

Regarding your actual question, I really can't answer. But I think programming a C code mp3 player, without an operative system to manage peripherals sounds very difficult.

[Barney Fife]

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[jetzt]

I think we should fix one of the mp3 player threads in the feature requests section, seems
that almost every newbe thinks somehow about that.
(Me too, and barney always gives the same answers...)

[GrAnd]

I think we should fix one of the mp3 player threads in the feature requests section, seems
that almost every newbe thinks somehow about that.
(Me too, and barney always gives the same answers...)

Merged & Stuck

[whim]

Although I personally have no use for MP3 on my cam, I'll share what I recently found on the net,
in case anyone is desperate enough to try ...

Shine (c source code for ARM mp3 encoder for RiscOS):

http://www.mp3-tech.org/programmer/sources/shinefixed.zip (only 39K zipped)



have fun,
wim

[Tiger]

Thanks   

[m2tk]

hi,
i've found sth more about ARM and mp3: ARM MP3/AAC Player - www.mikrocontroller.net
if that can play mp3s means "You can Canon ." also.
best,

[dzsemx]

maybe the sound memo limit would be nice to be removed...
but seriously... i don't want an universal canon device...
it's good as digital camera...
an mp3 player is really cheap...
personally i use my phone for mp3...
a hacked SE k800 (k810 firmware, lot of pacthes, menu and camera driver mod by me, acoustics mixed by me, system font changed)
it's awesome as phone, as mp3 player and great for 3D java games...
the only disappointment is the camera... the k800 camera is a piece of sh*t, worse than k750 (but in case of emergency it's priceless)

[christo]

I would really like to have this feature and would be willing to pay someone to develop it.

It should be easy to re-purpose the A/V output jack as a headphone (stereo audio only) jack. Canon camcorders already offer this capability in their menu system. The omni selector can be configured as a media / playlist selector and volume control. Simple text listing for music / media files on the LCD screen.

I don't want to carry an MP3 player around in addition to my Elph. With a 4GB or 8GB card, it doesn't matter if one or two gigabytes are devoted to music files, that won't seriously impact the number of photos I can take over several days. Happy to pay someone for the convenience of using my Elph as an MP3 player!

[adcz]

Hmm I would totally love an MP3 option. Don't really carry  an MP3 player around a lot, but my S5 goes everywhere with me, to school, outside, even to the Bathroom if its a public place . And I can't count the # of times people asked me, do you have that song on you? And I think to myself, at home...but what good is that gonna do

I don't really think reading/encoding to mp3 is hard to do on a camera. my s5 takes voice memos, not sure which format, but it is good enough. I don't mind converting my collection to wma or that realplayer one...there should be a folder in CHDK called /MUSIC and then a little song sorter (like on the ipods) which can list songs by name, album, artist, length, # of times played, Favorites, occasion (yeah I play different songs on different occasions ), etc. If they ever develop that onscreen kbd it would go nicely with the player.

[RaduP]

From a programming point of view, this should be doable, because there are a lot of open source MP3 players. The question is if the camera's CPU is fast enough. I think you will need something like 64Mhz or so to get a good quality MP3 player. Does anyone know the clock of the Canon cameras?

[adcz]

From a programming point of view, this should be doable, because there are a lot of open source MP3 players. The question is if the camera's CPU is fast enough. I think you will need something like 64Mhz or so to get a good quality MP3 player. Does anyone know the clock of the Canon cameras?

Well think about it...a camera processor has to read the sensor information add effects, compress it, etc in less than a second. We are working with huge amounts of data (10 MB or data per pic compared to 300 KB of an MP3....) I think camera processors are more than enough

Another thing...the Canon S5 can already record/play wma files (or some other format). If if can do that I think it can do mp3s. Besides, even if it cannot...I don't mind converting my tiny music collection