[Empeg-general] Re: Boot up animation upload

[mlord@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org]

Mmm.. If you can figure out a way to upload the raw animation file to the player, then you can burn it to flash, with some effort.

What's really needed here is someone to really tackle the "make the USB port behave like a USB-ethernet slave" project.  Then, everything would work on the Mark1.

Anyway, when I put out Hijack v248, it will include the /proc/ devices for Mark1, instead of only Mark2 as at present.

This means you'll see /proc/empeg_kernel and /proc/empeg_bootlogos on your Mark1, same as us Mark2(a) folks see them.

To customize the animation, it's then just a matter of writing the new animation to the appropriate offset within /proc/empeg/kernel, along with an eight byte signature at the end for Hijack to look for.

If you can program in C, then writing a program (which runs on the Empeg) to do this is trivial.. I might even do it right now (easier and faster to just code one, than to try to explain how to do it here..).

Cheers

-ml