@comfortablynumb wrote:
But there’s a HUGE reason to use RB, and that’s battery life – the battery lasts a whole lot longer running RB than o.f.
I think this is true for basically all formats except mp3, where the OF does pretty good and shouldn’t be much less then rockbox. If you’re using mp3 and like the OF, I’d probably just use it, at least for now. I’m working on more mp3 stuff which will hopefully put rockbox further ahead, but its still a little off. Plus theres other stuff in rockbox that still wastes some power that needs fixing.
@comfortablynumb wrote:
And second, if Rockbox can achieve better battery life, why can’t Sandisk? This is, obviously, a firmware issue. Why hasn’t Sandisk fixed this? They’d sell more players if they could advertise a longer battery life, right?
Its a lot of work for small gains. Plus its very hard for companies to do this sort of optimization since they usually buy their decoders rather then write them. We have the advantage in that mt, linuxstb and I wrote some or even all of the bits in most of the rockbox decoders. Doing that took us years, but now we have really good decoders that we can optimize as much as we like.
