[dundee] LUG project(s)

[Paul Lancaster]

sounds gooood, but giving wmv support would make it a universal type
product.

Dashboard or remote mounted ?

Cdrom ?

Paul


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Clayton" <andrew@digital-domain.net>
To: "TLUG" <dundee@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 12:56 AM
Subject: [dundee] LUG project(s)


> On the subject of LUG projects, I have an what might be quite an
> ambitious idea, that I've been mulling over the last year.
>
> Design and develop a car based mp3 player... not a new concept, I know.
> Last time I checked, the only one I would touch was the empeg which is
> no longer in development.
>
> This could even become commercially viable, but either way it would be a
> fun project with the added bonus of the 'coolness' factor.
>
>
>
> Heres a 'brain dump' of my idea's.
>
>
> Obviously this thing would be hard disk based and run some form of
> Linux.
>
> There are plenty of embedded Linux development boards out there which
> would have most of what we needed.
>
>
> For getting your music onto the thing. USB has to be one method, but I'm
> also thinking ethernet would also be very handy. This would allow the
> use of such things as ftp and nfs/samba as file transfer mechanisms. And
> provides a route for non USB capable people. E.g those of us running
> years old Unix workstations.
>
> Certainly the kernel support for accessing it through USB is there and
> the devices disk would just appear as a SCSI. The USB gadget project
> would offer other interesting possibilities.
>
> I'm leaving firewire, irda and bluetooth out for now. Certainly serial
> would be too slow, so thats out.
>
> The thing could be configured through a web interface or through telnet.
>
>
> For me the hardest bit seems to be getting a usable interface on the
> thing with a LCD screen etc.
>
>
> The thing would handle MP3 (this may be prove interesting if it became
> commercial) and ogg vorbis. I don't see the point in supporting .wmv
>
>
>
>
> Well thats pretty much my general thoughts on that....
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
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