Chris Glover wrote:
Any of the Cyberhome players that Richer Sounds sell have IDE DVD drives. I bought my parents one last year. Not a bad player, but picture quality is not as good as my Panasonic!
Well the trick would be to get one where the overall price of the unit is roughly akin to an ITX case & dvd IDE drive.. that way the picture would be entirely controlled by your computer output and you'd just chuck the "innards" of the player aside from the DVD-ROM. In many of them in the states, the power supplies were adequate to power the mainboard/computer as well!
Price-wise, do they have any around the £50-60 mark? That's about right for a decent DVD drive + case enclosure for such a project!
The ideal would be a drive that doesn't have hardware region coding too. In windows (spit) I have a tool that lets me set an "Emulated" region coding on the drive so I can use USA/UK/etc dvds. Sure would be nice to do the same on an ITX box with linux, does anyone in the LUG know about region-coding etc as applies to linux (does it apply?)?
Another really clever thing MythTV includes is a MAME frontend, turning your little ITX box also into a game machine; and I believe it uses the audio outs to play your ogg/mp3 music from the same interface as the PVR layout
DB