Simple method for Displaying Empeg on any Video Monitor.
With the Via Epia motherboards with CPU and flash disk now available for £75, a very simple Empeg display unit could be created.
As the Mobo is pretty inclusive vga, video out, spdif, Lan, usb etc One could simply add a DC regulator circuit and a ethernet crossover cable to the Empeg and by running the Empeg web interface with the HI/LO kernal mods you could output the mpeg display in 24 bit colour to any y/c or cvbs video monitor in high quality resizable output.
If one used an 6.4" earthlink vga panel or a USD LCD output http://www.massworks.com/ you could even use a touchscreen for remote control and gain the ability to run emplode, gps, etc in the car.
Further, with the simple addition of a hdd you could even run dvd's or other media (mp3 ??) ;-) in the car but this kind of defeats the point of our Empegs and therfore may not be the way you wanted to solve your problem, after all incar pc is kind of mutually exclusive with EMpeg.
However if you were keen an epia (fanless) it and the PSU would fit in a box the smaller than a poweramp, mine sits under the passenger seat and cost less than 100 bucks.
Obviously not as elegant as redesigning the entire Empeg display subsystem but with some lateral thinking, like that that created our fabulous Empegs there are often many ways to solve a particular problem.
Best Regards
Max
80gb mk2, epia-eden, honda X, alpine pxa H700 (soon).


Edited by g_man_max (01/08/2002 15:55)