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Well, it's pretty obvious that we bit off more than we could chew taking on two products at once.  Lesson learned. 

So What should we do now?   If we don't do the 442v2, we're effectively exiting the portable market which built our community and still holds primary interest for the vast majority of our current community today.  If we continue to make promises and not keep them, that will make things even worse. 

Obviously, no matter what, we'll support return privledges (as we always have).

I continue to believe that there is a material market for an open source, evolving media player.  The reality is that development will be slower than any of us anticipated.  I also continue to believe that the 442v2 is an important step to getting an N3 in any form out.  I believe we should plan on continuing to develop the 442v2 hardware and work hard to recruit community contributions.  This surely will yield a slower schedule than will be acceptable for most, but we'll be candid and let the original purchasers decide for themselves what's right for them.

Anyone?  Think of the Duck!

respect the duck!

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Well, it was a learning experience, I'll chalk it up to that

Definately an interesting and unique post.  Right now, I'm personally focused on the OSD and 442v2 and can't raise my head enought to think much about the N3, but this is definately a "bookmark and put to the side" post.  I don't agree with all of it, but there are definately some good points.

Yes, I'm with you, it's incredibly annoying.  I've also asked if we could have it bumped to 2.5 hours.  The trouble is that the .mp4 format requires some kind of table thats stored in ram.  it's apparantly a big table that maxes out the 4MB of RAM on the system at 2 hours.  Apparantly it could be fixed by using another recording format, but then that wouldn't play on the PSP or iPod.  Unfortunately, those are the options we have with the R2 hardware right now.

you need to talk to ExNavy http://wiki.neurostechnology.com/index.php/User:ExNavy and I imagine he'll respond to your post, I guess he's on vacation.  He's done much of the stuff you're looking to do, and has some information and videos on his website olson-engineering.com

I use an 8GB Seagate microdrive (Photo- RED very important) and it works fine.  You have to get the photo, there are some CF microdrives that are for embedding into devices, those won't work.

As I understand it, Tim has been testing a new version of the firmware that has the auto record feature fixed.  Hopefully he'll post something soon.

Thanks for posting this, I put the link on the wiki too. 

You know, after I viewed the video I decided not to bother with it.  The quality of the video is not that great, and I think my speech could be improved.  I stuck it up on youtube, take a look.  I'm thinking to do some others in a more professional way.

http://www.youtube.com/v/Jey8-AjXX1E

If you know C or Linux or well whatever you know is surely more than I know, then I need your help!

I'm trying to get some simple C programs to run on the OSD, and well, I don't know C or how to hack the OSD, so I need your help!

see here:  http://open.neurostechnology.com/node/335

send me an email or look for me on #neuros on IRC

http://open.neurostechnology.com/cgiirc/ if you don't have an IRC client handy.

Joe,

You know, if a lot of these design choices are happening in meetings and you'd like to share them with everyone online, why not podcast design meetings?  Set up a topic header so responses can go under each respective "episode"?

I'd say "Neurocast" it, but that's something entirely different and cooler.  

I'm certainly up for doing that, and frankly now adays the bulk of our meeting stuff is online, although if we have in person meetings, I'm happy to tape or video or whatever.  I've been doing that for presentations (including one I gave tonight) not I'm looking for someone to help transcode, edit!

Hi All, I just presented the OSD to Mobile Monday Chicago (http://smalldozes.blogspot.com/2006/07/august-21st-2006-mobile-web-20-who-put.html), and I videotaped it.  I'm not sure if it's any good, but I start out with an explanation of why open source is important beyond just the source code, having to do with freedom of communication and freedom to assemble in groups on projects, etc.  I was trying to rally this group to evangelize the importance of free software and how it affects the freedom of the whole ecosystem.  I don't know if it's any good, but I'm hoping we can get at least some snippets out of it and post them.

I've got it on miniDV which I can upload, or I could just encode on on the OSD, but if someone has some skills with this kind of stuff (editing video, transcoding), I'd love to have some help.  Just let me know.

I'm surprised no one has answered you this far.  olson-engineering.com has information and http://wiki.neurostechnology.com/index.php/User:ExNavy has done a lot of this kind of stuff.  You might try to PM him on this, he's normally on these forums, but maybe hasn't re-registered on the new forums yet.

We're going to have an open meeting online to discuss this.  You are all welcome to attend and ask questions.  I'll post more after that.

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