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Argon v0.2

http://rapidshare.de/files/30004865/Argon_v0.2.zip.html

- Requires an internet connection.
- Edit Argon.xml to define folders to be parsed - <music> and <photo> (you can add several entries), and the path to uLaunchELF.
- Weather (using the service provided by The Weather Channel) - working. Edit Argon.xml to set you location (here is an explanation on how to obtain your location ID: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/09/29/weather.html). Pressing X on the weather screen will display a satellite image.
- Radio – categories list implemented.
- Photo - working, but libjpeg is damn slow. Thumbnails are shown for only the first five JPEGs (to speedup loading). Left/right - previous/next.
- Music – thumbnails implemented (folder.jpg or AlbumArtSmall.jpg).
- Still single threaded - takes ages to load...


Developers

If you want to help the project, here are the main tasks:
- SMS playback functions, if you are able to understand EEUG's code, I'm not, so I'm waiting for him to give me some clues,
- threads, semaphores, timers and stuff like that,
- high quality mp3 decoder (libmad maybe? - haven't tested it yet) - while SMS mp3 decoder is ok for movies (speed is more important there), for plain mp3's we can use something better,
- Shoutcast support,
- SMB support - http://ntba2.de/?p=libsmb, if it's performance will be adequate,
- DAAP support (iTunes sharing),
- AAC decoder - FAAC?
- visualization - based on something like that http://imagesavant.com/ or http://flam3.com/ (this one is opensource) or something else, but it should be extremely minimalistic (and I don't care about it reacting to the music),
- zlib support for those bitmaps and fonts,
- better icons.
These are more or less in the order of their priority. Contact me if you are interested.


There is also a thread here - http://www.ps2newz.net/forums/showthread.php?t=48416


Argon v0.1

Currently:
- Nothing, except the menu itself, is working, not even thumbnails.
- No support for CD/DVD and HDD, only host: and USB (so, you can only start it from there).
- No media change notifications - only parses folders at startup.

Controls - directional buttons, X - confirm, O - cancel.

The next step would be adding video and mp3 support, hopefully with EEUG's support. That shouldn't be a problem, cause it's already based on SMS.

The release forum exists for a reason >_<

Moved.

I don's see a point for moving that here, there isn't much to release. It's supposed to be more like work-in-progress thread, for development ideas and help.
So, is there ANY documentation about threads, semaphores and timers? I'm not asking for MSDN Library, but at least something describing function arguments.

Argon v0.2