Video Player
I dont know exactly what to call this. but i want some kinda device that i could make that plays movies off a hard drive, i no that they kinda mmake these already but there really expensive and i figure i could build something cheaper. ive got about 20 extra computers varing from MACs to PCs and ranging in all diffrent years, so i though of like building like a "DVR" without a tuner card or something. and the basic reason for this is so that i can bring large amounts of movies and vids to friends houses without hauling around tons of CDs or my PS3. i also like the way the XBox Mini looks
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Jun 9, 2009. 5:56 PMmunchman
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You probably want a media centre PC. You can buy/build them, and you can get them down to around the size of a large DVD player using desktop PC components. Have you thought about buying a laptop though? I got a new PC at the start of the year with Vista Home Premium, and it came with Media Center, you can easily add movies and stuff to that. Actually, do you have a mac mini? You could probably do something with that? Your major problem is portability, the laptop/mac mini seems to be your best option.
Jun 11, 2009. 12:29 PMhvac2010 (author)
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i was thinking bout that and yea i guess i kinda would but the i thought about ipods and how you can control them with remotes. so what if i made a box that had a cheap video ipod with the A/V cables and a charger attached and just put it in a box...maybe a photo-sensor positioned so that when the screen lit up and the ipod was on an led light could come on and show that the units working...this was just an idea because i want the box to be really small and ive got extra laptops handy...there older but maybe some media distribution of Linux could work and i could just put the laptop in a smaller case and remove the screen...
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