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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 12775"><p>Or you can do as I have done with a coupple of computers, rip the internals out of a normal dvd player that has stopped working. I`ve done this with a few NAD cases with positive results.</p><p></p><p>Its a bit tricky to get the dvd-rom to fit in the standard dvd-opening of a normal dvd player case, but it works after a while.</p><p></p><p>The buttons on the front of the case can easily be modded onto a usb gamepad controllers mainboard. The front of the NAD case I currently use has the perfect media-buttons; up, down, left, right, enter and menu. With theese buttons there is nothing you cant manage to do in mediaportal. The other buttons has the same function as they would have in the normal dvdplayer, except from the "open" button that is hard wired to the dvd-roms mainboard.</p><p></p><p>I have replaced the display of the NAD case with the same 2x16 vfd that comes with the Accent kanam HT200 and HT400 cases, just to get some kind of info from it as well.</p><p></p><p>So, by using a firewire-to-ide adapter I can use the NAD case just as another dvd player, while the computer is in the room nearby giving me all the bennefits of a computer except the noise. There is two usb cables, one parallell-cable (for the vfd), one seriall-cable (for the ir-receiver) one firewire cable for the dvd-rom and power for the dvd-rom.</p><p></p><p>If you want there is enough room in the nad case to make use of less cables from one room to another. If you use vfd panels based on usb, a ir-receiver/tranceiver on usb, and a usb2.0 dvd-rom you can put a usb-hub in the case having just one usb cable to the computer. I think the "headroom" in the usb 2.0 system should do just fine with all this on one cable.</p><p></p><p>Buttons:</p><p>The buttons that comes up as a logitech gamepad and a ms sidewinder gamepad on the computer (had to use two cheap 10button gamepads to cover the 14 buttons on the NAD) triggers a Girder command that "does the rest" in mediaportal. When it comes to this part one can make the buttons do almost anything.</p><p></p><p>In addition to the 14 buttons on the front panel of the NAD, i have 6 not-used buttons on the gamepad-mainboards. Theese buttons can be used for several nice functions. You can for example have one button wired to the doorbell ?? I have done a little thinking about wiring one of the buttons to our babycall as well, but havent done anything about it more than that.</p><p></p><p>well... thats a few words on the subject at least.</p><p></p><p>DrErling</p><p>btw, keep those mp updates comming! :wink:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 12775"] Or you can do as I have done with a coupple of computers, rip the internals out of a normal dvd player that has stopped working. I`ve done this with a few NAD cases with positive results. Its a bit tricky to get the dvd-rom to fit in the standard dvd-opening of a normal dvd player case, but it works after a while. The buttons on the front of the case can easily be modded onto a usb gamepad controllers mainboard. The front of the NAD case I currently use has the perfect media-buttons; up, down, left, right, enter and menu. With theese buttons there is nothing you cant manage to do in mediaportal. The other buttons has the same function as they would have in the normal dvdplayer, except from the "open" button that is hard wired to the dvd-roms mainboard. I have replaced the display of the NAD case with the same 2x16 vfd that comes with the Accent kanam HT200 and HT400 cases, just to get some kind of info from it as well. So, by using a firewire-to-ide adapter I can use the NAD case just as another dvd player, while the computer is in the room nearby giving me all the bennefits of a computer except the noise. There is two usb cables, one parallell-cable (for the vfd), one seriall-cable (for the ir-receiver) one firewire cable for the dvd-rom and power for the dvd-rom. If you want there is enough room in the nad case to make use of less cables from one room to another. If you use vfd panels based on usb, a ir-receiver/tranceiver on usb, and a usb2.0 dvd-rom you can put a usb-hub in the case having just one usb cable to the computer. I think the "headroom" in the usb 2.0 system should do just fine with all this on one cable. Buttons: The buttons that comes up as a logitech gamepad and a ms sidewinder gamepad on the computer (had to use two cheap 10button gamepads to cover the 14 buttons on the NAD) triggers a Girder command that "does the rest" in mediaportal. When it comes to this part one can make the buttons do almost anything. In addition to the 14 buttons on the front panel of the NAD, i have 6 not-used buttons on the gamepad-mainboards. Theese buttons can be used for several nice functions. You can for example have one button wired to the doorbell ?? I have done a little thinking about wiring one of the buttons to our babycall as well, but havent done anything about it more than that. well... thats a few words on the subject at least. DrErling btw, keep those mp updates comming! :wink: [/QUOTE]
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