[linux-audio-user] Zaurus users?

Olivier omagere at club.lemonde.fr
Tue Nov 18 15:09:26 EST 2003


Also have one. Great mp3 and ogg player with tkcPlayer and a 1Gb microdrive. 

On Friday 07 November 2003 3:42 pm, Jim Hines wrote:
> I have one too. Love it and use it all the time. Especially for ogg
> playback in my vehicle. One thing I would really love to do with it is
> connect it to my MIDI keyboards through its serial port. Does anyone know
> if this is possible?
>
> > wow, well thats a hell of a lot more than i thought would run on it...
> > pretty impressive for such a small device actually...
> >
> > any thoughts on the 5500 vs. the new one?...
> > i like the look of the older one better... but writing might not be as
> > easy...
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > m~
> >
> > Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:04:25PM +0000, iriXx wrote:
> > >>hi all...
> > >>
> > >>just wondering if there are any Zaurus users on the list - the older
> > >>version not the new one...
> > >
> > > I have one.
> > >
> > >>i've seen one in action and i know its got good media player facilities
> > >>- some kind of xmms i seem to recall?... but im curious as to what else
> > >>will run on it...
> > >
> > > Yes I guess it can to xmms. It also runs OpieMedia player (in
> > > OpenZaurus anyway) that is based on libxine. So it can also play divx
> > > movie files and stuff also.
> > > You can install csounds on it. But there are not to many programs for
> > > creating multimedia on it. Don't experct to do any realtime stuff with
> > > csounds on the zaurus. You can render it and then listen to it. Even as
> > > root user my 5500 sounds real choppy when trying to play a sine wave a
> > > 44.1k 16bit in real time with csounds.
> > >
> > > check out zaurus software index and decide for your self. (I mostly use
> > > it for the calender features, address, todo, and checkbook apps):
> > > http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/
> > >
> > > Jeremiah
> > >
> > >>thinking about getting one as a replacement to the laptop i thoroughly
> > >>destroyed yesterday. dropped it from a bench, shattered screen and
> > >>damaged motherboard. i'll be lucky if i get the data back. compaq
> > >>armada's are flimsy things - if it had been the Dell i used to have,
> > >>chances are it might have been salvagable....
> > >>
> > >>thankx





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