lcd display; DVD playing.
Andy Baxter <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:52:18 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.hardware.openbrick.general |
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hello, I found the openbrick site the other night and it looks like something I've been looking for for a while - a super-quiet, compact linux compatible platform that I can have running all the time in my living room as a combined internet firewall / connection sharer and also plugged into my hi-fi as an mp3 jukebox and internet radio player. (I've just started setting up an old pentium for this, but it's so noisy I won't be able to leave it on all the time, which was part of the point) I have a couple of questions: - one idea i had was to fit a small lcd display so i can use it without monitor/tv. A 2 lines / 20 characters display would just about fit the height of the openbrick, and it says in the specs that there is an internal connection to an extra serial port which could be used to drive this. (4 lines would be better, but too big for the box) Is there actually space behind the front panel to put something like this in? (I'm planning to test the system on my old machine first, but I just want to know whether to buy a small display that would fit the OB if I get one in the end, or a bigger one that would be nicer to use, but would need to have a seperate case outside the OB box). - Also, are there any plans to include a DVD rom / CD-rewriter drive for playing movies and CDs etc., or could you connect one to a usb port? Is the openbrick fast enough to play DVD movies? andrew baxter.