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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 8543"><p><strong>Media portal in a car</strong></p><p></p><p>I'm running Media Portal in my car. I mounted a tablet PC (Compaq TC1000) on the dashboard. It has a screen size of 10.5" (26.67cm) diagonal.</p><p></p><p>I'm using the default skin and it's working really well. The screen is not touch sensitive. It's only sensitive to the tablet stylus. It does have a convinient ESC button on top of it and a jog dial that lets me scroll through menus and acts as enter when I press down on it. I also have a firefly remote control in the car as well. I've inserted a thin strong neodimium magnet under the leather on the center console/arm rest and another magnet in the remote so it sticks to it and doesn't fall of when I'm driving, even in sharp turns. I'm using Girder for the interface between the firefly remote and MP. </p><p></p><p>The whole setup is awesome. I did have some problems with playing videos in ver 0.1.5.1 but I'm now using Zoom Player, heavily customized to act exactly as MP video does. It even shrinks down to the lower left of the screen on top of MP when I exit full screen.</p><p></p><p>So yeah, using my remote in the car is even easier than reaching to the display and pressing on the screen. It's much more convinient, and because the remote is not IR based but RF, I can have it in my lap pointed in any direction, I can use it from it's home position stuck on it's magnet or people on the backseats can easily control everything.</p><p></p><p>1. I'm using MediaPortal for Music, Pictures, Internet Radio, Newsfeeds, and Weather.</p><p>2. I use Zoom Player for videos and movies. </p><p>3. Also I have Street Atlas 2005 with a DeLorme USB GPS receiver for voice and screen navigation.</p><p>4. And I have a Sony GC83 EDGE/GPRS PCMCIA card for wireless internet access. It's fast enough for streaming shoutcast radio and even video works nice half of the time!</p><p>I use a VPN connection over that to the office so I can monitor the status of our network and respond quickly if I have to.</p><p>I'm a network admin amongst other things so that's very nice to have.</p><p></p><p>This all was a bit off-topic but I just wanted to share my expirience with MP in a car environment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 8543"] [b]Media portal in a car[/b] I'm running Media Portal in my car. I mounted a tablet PC (Compaq TC1000) on the dashboard. It has a screen size of 10.5" (26.67cm) diagonal. I'm using the default skin and it's working really well. The screen is not touch sensitive. It's only sensitive to the tablet stylus. It does have a convinient ESC button on top of it and a jog dial that lets me scroll through menus and acts as enter when I press down on it. I also have a firefly remote control in the car as well. I've inserted a thin strong neodimium magnet under the leather on the center console/arm rest and another magnet in the remote so it sticks to it and doesn't fall of when I'm driving, even in sharp turns. I'm using Girder for the interface between the firefly remote and MP. The whole setup is awesome. I did have some problems with playing videos in ver 0.1.5.1 but I'm now using Zoom Player, heavily customized to act exactly as MP video does. It even shrinks down to the lower left of the screen on top of MP when I exit full screen. So yeah, using my remote in the car is even easier than reaching to the display and pressing on the screen. It's much more convinient, and because the remote is not IR based but RF, I can have it in my lap pointed in any direction, I can use it from it's home position stuck on it's magnet or people on the backseats can easily control everything. 1. I'm using MediaPortal for Music, Pictures, Internet Radio, Newsfeeds, and Weather. 2. I use Zoom Player for videos and movies. 3. Also I have Street Atlas 2005 with a DeLorme USB GPS receiver for voice and screen navigation. 4. And I have a Sony GC83 EDGE/GPRS PCMCIA card for wireless internet access. It's fast enough for streaming shoutcast radio and even video works nice half of the time! I use a VPN connection over that to the office so I can monitor the status of our network and respond quickly if I have to. I'm a network admin amongst other things so that's very nice to have. This all was a bit off-topic but I just wanted to share my expirience with MP in a car environment. [/QUOTE]
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