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butcher1993
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 Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:46 pm Post subject: Homemade DVD player |
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| I have a DVD-rom drive, a VGA monitor, motherboard, cpu, everything except the harddrive. Is there anyway to hotwire it to play dvd directly onto the screen? if there is a topic, please point. ill be searching. |
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Alan
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| Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:03 am Post subject: Re: Homemade DVD player |
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| butcher1993 wrote: | | I have a DVD-rom drive, a VGA monitor, motherboard, cpu, everything except the harddrive. Is there anyway to hotwire it to play dvd directly onto the screen? if there is a topic, please point. ill be searching. |
Not that I know of. This is because the DVD drive doesn't know how to decode the video that is on the disk. This is all done in software.
You may not need a hard drive though. If you do it right you should be able to boot from a CD and load a light weight OS with a DVD player in RAM. Then when booted just swap the OS disk with your movie. Of course that would be harder than scavenging a 10GB dive that someone doesn't need anymore. |
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