{"id":77,"date":"2007-09-17T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/rockbox-on-sansa-view\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T00:50:37","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T22:50:37","slug":"rockbox-on-sansa-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/rockbox-on-sansa-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockbox on Sansa View?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandisk.com\/Products\/Catalog(1364)-SanDisk_Sansa_View_MP3_Players.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/sansaview300.jpg\" title=\"Sansa View\" alt=\"Sansa View\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>Ok, since we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/\">Rockbox<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/sansa\/e200.html\">Sansa e200<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/twiki\/bin\/view\/Main\/SansaE200RInstallation\">e200R<\/a> working and the support for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/twiki\/bin\/view\/Main\/SansaC200Port\">c200<\/a> series in the pipe, I feel it is about time to make a statement about the possibilities to get Rockbox for the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandisk.com\/Products\/Catalog(1364)-SanDisk_Sansa_View_MP3_Players.aspx\">Sansa View<\/a> player: it is (most probably) a totally different beast hardware-wise, so it will require a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockbox.org\/twiki\/bin\/view\/Main\/NewPort\">new port<\/a> with all the associated hard work.<\/p>\n<p>And no, SanDisk has not been in touch with us any further, so I would say it is highly unlikely they will donate any players or similar to us this time.<\/p>\n<p>Once we get to see a detailed dissection with nice hires pictures we can tell for sure, but their talk about 30fps H.264 video in 320&#215;240 resolution implies a major change.<\/p>\n<p>As a summary, the View is indeed SanDisk&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipodnano\/\">iPod Nano<\/a> killer with double the flash size for the same amount of money, with a microsdhc-port, claimed longer battery life and only slightly thicker.<\/p>\n<p>A funny detail: SanDisk previously did another player called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/06\/01\/sandisk-puts-sansa-view-on-ice\/\">Sansa View that they put on hold<\/a> just before the summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, since we have Rockbox on Sansa e200 and e200R working and the support for the c200 series in the pipe, I feel it is about time to make a statement about the possibilities to get Rockbox for the new Sansa View player: it is (most probably) a totally different beast hardware-wise, so it will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/rockbox-on-sansa-view\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rockbox on Sansa View?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-rockbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}