Gentoo powered DVD/DiVX player

rekulaattori · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 10

Me and my friend are slowly getting our DVD/DiVX player ready. The reason I'm telling this to you is that the underlying OS is Linux and specifically Gentoo. And it's been the perfect choice.

So thanks to all the Gentoo developers and everybody else who have helped us on the way.

Kurre

c_kuzmanic · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2002 2:25 pm Post subject:

Cool, I will keep an eye on this:)

oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

I had the same idea, I was going to use one of those VIA Mini-ITX motherboards (comes with everything onboard including a Cyrix 800mhz CPU), but it can't do DiVX very well. However, there is a new motherboard that I have yet to find and its called a Jetway B860T, and it has everything built in other than a CPU (but can take a P3). This project has been trying to burn a hole in my pocket for a while, its great to see similar projects.

Thanks for posting.
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rekulaattori · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 10

Yeah, those mini mother boards would help a lot in placing the stuff inside the box. We're building another one (for me, the one in the pics is Tero's) and I thought long if I should buy a mini motherboard or just buy new gear for my desktop and use the old parts for this. Latter option won.. :)

Gulliver · Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2002 5:53 pm Post subject:

Nice thing, I am doing something similar currently. Can you tell me where you got the Bus-Risers? I am searching for such a thing for a long, long time but never found it!
Best would be a vendor-link!
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rekulaattori · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 10

Adex electronics IIRC. http://www.adexelec.com/extenders.htm You can order by mail. That's what we did.

perry · Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2002 9:19 pm Post subject:

Pretty cool. I have a friend building a home theater pc, I think I'll pass the link along to him.. May give him a couple ideas.