[OT] Home Theatre....

[Donovan J. Edye]

I,

> Don't overlook the fact that many DVD players will also play ISO-9660
format CD-Rs with MP3 files stored on them.
Thanks. However I would like to be able to place all my music on the device
and not have to swap CDs all the time.

-- D

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Ian Matters [mailto:ian.matters at post1.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, 13 August 2002 18:37
To:	d.edye at bigfoot.com; Linux List
Subject:	Re: [OT] Home Theatre....

At 05:51 PM 13/08/2002, Donovan J. Edye wrote:
>G'Day,
>
>What I want to do is rather simple:
>
>- Play DVDs through my TV
>- Play audio CD's (through sound card to surround sound speakers)
>- Play MP3s
>
>What I envisaged was actually building a box with a DVD player, Sound Card,
>Graphics Card with TV Out etc. However the box would cost more than a
simple
>DVD player (and most DVD players will play audio CDs). However a DVD home
>theatre system has one short coming - you cannot put MP3s on it. Sure you
>could burn an audio disk, but what would be better is if "the box" had a
>built in HDD and Ethernet interface that could have musing uploaded to it
>etc. Kind of a hybrid DVD player with HDD storage.
>
>Has anyone got any pointers to hardware that does this kind of thing? Kind
>of network attached multimedia player? ;-) I remember seeing a small
article
>in the US PC Mag a couple of months ago, but nothing since.
>
>All suggestions, comments feedback appreciated.

Don't overlook the fact that many DVD players will also play ISO-9660
format CD-Rs with MP3 files stored on them.  My machine is a Sast AEP803
and works pretty well.  I'm sure that there are other newer machines to
choose from too.


  Cheers, Ian
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