C-ApiSRO - Sirius/XM Satellite Radio for PocketPC (PPC)

[dwallersv]

Originally Posted by SomeGuyMMS

Recording would be great, but may not be possible with current WinMo phones. A phone wouldn't be able to run C-ApiSRO, the sirius/xm stream, record and encode/compress to a usable format. To make it possible it would have to use a very low data rate probably below AM Radio.

Nope, definitely do-able.

CorePlayer does it flawlessly. Set up microdrive mode to buffer to an SD card, and you can pause and restart a streaming source without losing any program material, or audio quality. My guess is that they are simply buffering the raw stream, and keeping track of a playback pointer in the saved data.

With 16GB cards, there's no reason to compress as part of a "DVR" capability. Raw streams can be buffered for hours and hours without making a dent in the storage.

In fact, this is the reason months ago I suggested adding a local proxy source feature to C-apiSRO -- restream out a different port on the device, or even fake being localhost stream, so that any application could connect and then add it's functionality (filters, equalizers, buffering, etc.).

In this way, capi's application no longer needs to provide the UI and other functionality. It simply obtains the content, and brokers it to some other app to act as the UI and signal processor.

In this way one could use CorePlayer to get DVR-like features for talk streaming; Pocket Player can be used to apply filters, equalizer, and even fluff like visualizations while listening to music.

All "free" in terms of C-apiSRO development burden.

What about that, capi? Please, please, please? Pretty please?