Made a quick vid of my carputer in action

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Here's a minute long vid I made...

http://www.dropshots.com/day.php?userid=136616&cdate=20060628&ctime=230337

First part of the video is the music interface, which has over 1500 songs stored on it.

Then, I go into the video section, which has about a dozen music videos, and a few Chappelle Show episodes.

After that, I go into the XM satellite radio portion.

I didn't play with the DVD section, but I also have about 10 full DVD's stored on the hard drive.

Click to read more...

 

[alphakenny1 10+ year member]

dang nice man!!

 

[trevor87 5,000+ posts]

cool lots of options to have in your car lol

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

Looks good man...what GUI is that you are using? Ive got Mediaengine setup on my carputer and found its sort of hard to use a touchscreen interface on a SPL vechile sometimes. I ended up getting one of those Targus trackball presentation pointers just so I could control the interface outside the vehicle.

Have you had any noise issues? Thats probably the #1 problem with carputers, either the power supply you use has intrinsic noise, or the soundcard has popping issues when initalized. I have good ole signal noise problems with mine - and had been considering a dc to dc converter buffer....is that something you considered as well or was your setup more plug and play?

 

[Eldorado 5,000+ posts]

I noticed that with the POS( not that POS) i have at work its not exact and is a few milimeters off when i use my finger. But with a pen its much eaiser.

Mouse , works the best

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Looks good man...what GUI is that you are using? Ive got Mediaengine setup on my carputer and found its sort of hard to use a touchscreen interface on a SPL vechile sometimes. I ended up getting one of those Targus trackball presentation pointers just so I could control the interface outside the vehicle.
Have you had any noise issues? Thats probably the #1 problem with carputers, either the power supply you use has intrinsic noise, or the soundcard has popping issues when initalized. I have good ole signal noise problems with mine - and had been considering a dc to dc converter buffer....is that something you considered as well or was your setup more plug and play?

I'm using Road Runner...I tried Centrafuse but preferred Road Runner over that and I've been using that ever since.

As for the noise issues, I did have a problem with turn on thump, but my PSU has a turn-on delay that I hooked up to my remote line for my amp that solved the problem. Only noise I've had is a little engine whine through the Line-in for XM, but it's not bad at all. I've heard that with on-board sound cards this is a common problem, and upgrading the sound card will solve this. Eventually I will upgrade the sound card when I get around to building the sound system.

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

I noticed that with the POS( not that POS) i have at work its not exact and is a few milimeters off when i use my finger. But with a pen its much eaiser.Mouse , works the best

With Road Runner running I don't have that problem, as the buttons are pretty big. When I navigate Windows, however, I do have that problem, so I use a stylus for that.