In Titan Movie Options

Bhudda454 · 06-29-2005, 10:21 AM

I have read the threads posted by llajumpvid and Yankee4x4, and would have to agree with all parties. Those are some truly awesome systems they made. I asked them both questions and got great answers back. I have come to the conclusion that what is there, is a bit more high tech than I would need. I have a Audiovox ADV12, a 12" monitor with a built in DVD player. Here is the item number from ebay. # 5784213974. It has a coax input to which I can add any source of video through. If I buy a little 25 dollar converter from Walmart. I have a big DVD library, and would like to know the best source to store it and payback through this LCD. Thank you for your input, and I will answer any questions I can.

baseballfanz · 06-29-2005, 10:40 AM

Pictures??????

Yankee4X4 · 06-29-2005, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Bhudda454

I have a big DVD library, and would like to know the best source to store it and payback through this LCD. Thank you for your input, and I will answer any questions I can.

Hey Bhudda,
I don't quite understand. Can you clarify this?
Yankee4x4

baseballfanz · 06-29-2005, 11:11 AM

You can get a 10 dis dvd changer or you can rip it to a formatt that you can play on a laptop.

grunge311 · 06-29-2005, 11:19 AM

The best source for a vehicle or TV would be a modified xbox, throw a 300gb drive in there, copy all your MP3s, dvds, and xbox games to it and play them off the hard drive. Plus you have a dvdrom in case you rent or buy a dvd on a road trip to watch. It fits great underneath a seat. I have mine under my pass seat.

Bhudda454 · 06-29-2005, 11:20 AM

Baseballfanz
Here are some pictures I found of the display. The DVD loads in the top. The unit has a kick stand for table top use. You might be able to make out the coax jack on the back. I have been looking into the laptop idea. I still have to figure out which software to use to rip the DVD's. There would be a bunch of power usage to run all these elctronics however. Laptop, Audiovox monitor, Kenwood stereo.

Yankee4x4

I would like to rip, to a player of some sort, my DVD collection. I know that you can do this on a laptop, or put in a carputer. I just would rather have something I can move to one of three vehicles with no major hassles. We take different vehicles depending on the trip length and crew size.

Thanks for the ideas so far guys.

Yankee4X4 · 06-29-2005, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by grunge311

modified xbox

I'd second that since bhudda wont need gps or anything like that this would be perfect for playing movies through the lcd.
Yankee4x4

Yankee4X4 · 06-29-2005, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Bhudda454

Yankee4x4

I would like to rip, to a player of some sort, my DVD collection. I know that you can do this on a laptop, or put in a carputer. I just would rather have something I can move to one of three vehicles with no major hassles. We take different vehicles depending on the trip length and crew size.

Thanks for the ideas so far guys.

I use dvdshrink 3.2 to rip my dvds to the harddrive that way i can adjust the compression and select exactly what i want from each movie; whether i only want the movie or the whole shebang off the disk to include extras previews and extra languages. I have a 160gb in the SHIFT_pc and 10gb is all mp3s; software (the os, frontend, various media players, gps software) is another 5gb leaving anough space to put about 30 dvds shrunk down to 4gb each.

btw i don't use the SHIFT_pc to rip the dvds since it would be painfully slow on the 933mhz P3. I rip them on my 3.2ghz p4 to a portable hard drive and transfer them to the SHIFT_pc. My desktop does the process in about 1/5 of the time taking about 40mins to rip a complete dvd including all extras and compressing it to 4gb from 6+ gb

Hope this helps some,
Yankee4x4

Bhudda454 · 06-29-2005, 11:33 AM

grunge311 and Baseballfanz

I figure i could pick up a experienced x-box at most pawnshops. Is there a specific hard drive I need to search for? I did a 300GB hard drive search on google and mainly saw seagate. Anything else I should know about doing it this way? Like how to rip the movies to it?

Thanks again, you are making this easier than I thought.

Bhudda454 · 06-29-2005, 12:26 PM

I have the PS2, couldn't I also do it with this? I have the games for this already, and it would make it a whole lot easier to slip past the boss.

baseballfanz · 06-29-2005, 12:28 PM

I myself will probably look into the Xbox option also.

grunge311 · 06-29-2005, 12:43 PM

You can't use a ps2 for this (well actually I think you can but its a pain)

Xbox- get an xbox manufactured oct 2004 or earlier, any IDE hard drive (not serial ATA). The reason you get one 2004 or earlier is because you don't have to get a chip to hack them. Really any xbox will do but <2004 require least effort.
go to www.xbox-scene.com to learn the amazing things you can do with an xbox.

I currently use mine for nearly all my media. If you wanted you could wire a PAC SWI-x to it and use your steering wheels for controling it! I have 100gb of mp3s, about 15 xbox games, a couple of movies, and an boatload of music videos on it. The xbox media center works great in a car. very easy to read and very easy to navigate. I use a wireless logitech controller to control the unit but there are many options you can do for that.

If you were closer (I am in MN) I would be more than willing to hack yours for you. Its very easy but you do need some things to do it (memory card, specific game, and soldering iron).

Any more questions feel free to ask.

Really

grunge311 · 06-29-2005, 12:44 PM

I should also say that you can use any size hard drive. The bigger the better though, movies are about 5gb on average, games are ~3gb, and mp3s are well you know.

I currently have a 200gb in my truck, in my last car I had a 120gb.

Bhudda454 · 06-29-2005, 01:06 PM

grunge311

I would assume that while hunting the pre-Oct. 2004 xbox down, I would find some sort of date ranging label on the bottom? Using whichever size IDE hard drive I find appropriate, do I need to do anything special to install it and start ripping movies to it? I read som hairy stuff on that xbox-scene place. They made it sound as fun as re-working the PS2 to work. Not real crazy about soldering inside a tiny little box that I just snuck in the garage.

SickWhip · 06-29-2005, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by grunge311

You can't use a ps2 for this (well actually I think you can but its a pain)

Xbox- get an xbox manufactured oct 2004 or earlier, any IDE hard drive (not serial ATA). The reason you get one 2004 or earlier is because you don't have to get a chip to hack them. Really any xbox will do but <2004 require least effort.
go to www.xbox-scene.com to learn the amazing things you can do with an xbox.

I currently use mine for nearly all my media. If you wanted you could wire a PAC SWI-x to it and use your steering wheels for controling it! I have 100gb of mp3s, about 15 xbox games, a couple of movies, and an boatload of music videos on it. The xbox media center works great in a car. very easy to read and very easy to navigate. I use a wireless logitech controller to control the unit but there are many options you can do for that.

If you were closer (I am in MN) I would be more than willing to hack yours for you. Its very easy but you do need some things to do it (memory card, specific game, and soldering iron).

Any more questions feel free to ask.

Really

Just an aside question, where do you get the music videos to burn?