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video dvd in car with gateway touch pad (modified 0 times) richnlori Profile | Email I am making a in car computer based off of the gateway touch pad. It will be used for gps and I will stream mp3s into the car audio sytem with a fm modulater. But the Icing on the cake would be dvd playback for the kids:). I know that an external dvd drive wouldn't work because of the low processer capability but would a usb video capture connected to an external dvd player work? anybody try this or have comments? 12-01-2001 23:28:57

RE:video dvd in car with gateway touch pad (modified 0 times) BigDog Profile | Email What you might try is using an notebook IDE DVD player. With a JAE 50 pin to the 44 pin IDE adapter, you should be able to confgure it as an slave device. The would three major issues to overcome: 1. Getting the converter (I know a place that sells them for $25) 2. Getting the drive and making an enclosure (eBay has the drives in the computer notebook acc. section). 3. Making an IDE cable that is long enough to connect to the drive and exit the GCT case to connect to the drive. USB would work, but would be much more expensive and un-reliable. This is one of my plans to make a CD-Burner station with one of my GCT's using a notebook CD-RW drive, haven't had time since mine on my desktop works just fine. 12-02-2001 18:46:01

RE:video dvd in car with gateway touch pad (modified 0 times) maposo Profile I can be wrong, but I think the biggest problem is to have the "juice" to decode the MPEG2 stream comming from the DVD drive. I don't believe the GCT will be able to do that while running Windows in the background, but, again, I can be wrong - I never tested it. The USB connection option should be fine in terms of speed for the acquired non-compressed video (but would also cause some overhead in the processor). If I understood correctly the decoding would be done by an external DVD player plugged to a power inverter (one of the cheap 140W models should be OK for it and the GCT I believe) and the GCT processor would only need to deal with the digitized video stream via one of those USB capture devices (humm - digital video to analog video to digital video again...), where your input is either RCA or S-Video, right? Well, that's an easy way to that, I believe. I don't have a USB capture device at my home, but would make an interesting test to someone who has it... 12-03-2001 22:54:05

RE:video dvd in car with gateway touch pad (modified 0 times) richnlori Profile | Email Actually you do get the point however the dvd would be a mobile dvd player by pioneer or? A mobile dvd player is compact and set to run on 12v already. I real live test by someone would be great! anybody with a gia and a usb video capture? you could test it with anything such as vcr or dvd. This project might be an easier sell to my wife if she gets DvDs in the car out of the deal:) 12-04-2001 22:32:49

RE:video dvd in car with gateway touch pad (modified 0 times) BigDog Profile | Email I have ran a Hauppauge USB Tv tuner capture card on my GCT, I never tried any capture but just used it as a TV tuner and the results were so, so.... My kids liked it, the video was a little out sync with the sound when ran at full screen, it was kinda like watching those old Kung Fu dubbed movies were Cha Ting would say "I don't want to fight you, but will if I have to" and his lips didn't move. I think the GCT could do the decoding, but the video speed of the display would be the problem, with my TV tuner, the video and sound would sync if you ran it in a window 1/5 the size of the display. I believe there is only 2mb of memory set aside for video display. 12-05-2001 19:56:14

RE:video dvd in car with gateway touch pad (modified 0 times) seraphad Profile Problem can be solved easily if the Touch Pad had a ZV PCMCIA slot. There are PCMCIA DVD Decoders like Margi and Kingmax. Is there a miniPCI to PCI or PCMCIA adapter? I have only managed to find a compactPCI to PCMCIA slots 02-04-2002 20:02:05

RE:video dvd in car with gateway touch pad (modified 0 times) rlpeel Profile Hey bigdog where do you get one of those 50-44 pin laptop cdrom connectors from. I need one for mine. I have a nice 32x laptop cdrom I want to add to it. UUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHH where did all that smoke come from. 03-17-2002 06:34:08

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