Re: [Bug-gnupod] iPod touch / iPhone artwork

[H. Langos]

Hi Roger,

As far as I know there's nobody right now working on the artwork code and
that code realy needs some love and care. You are most welcome to get your 
hands dirty there :-)

The only thing I did with artwork in gnupod was to add artwork support for
podcasts and some refinement on the extractArtwork.pl tool.

The drop key seems to be used where in libgpod the "crop" value is set to
true.

Currently gnupod has no notion of RGB555 format and of padding the graphics 
to a certain size.

Both seems te be required judging from libgnupod's itdb_device.c :
http://gtkpod.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gtkpod/libgpod/trunk/src/itdb_device.c?view=markup

But the graphics profiles can easily be extended by some hash keys like
  format=>'THUMB_FORMAT_RGB565_LE' 
and 
  padding=>8192

I assume you are using the git repository so you can easily follow
development and send patches upstream.

As far as the distorted images go I'd guess that this comes from not
aligning the images to 8192 or 16384 block borders (there seems to be 
a typo in the libgpod saying 16364 instead).

Cheers
-henrik