- Apr 26, 2006
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I'm looking for recommendation on a media player for car use.
My superfly minivan has a DVD player with a ceiling video screen. DVDs are a pain to deal with. But the system also has component inputs (I think - I get the names mixed up but we have inputs with the yellow red white). I would like a media player with internal HDD (since it'll be in a car streaming off my home network is an obvious no go and needing a separate external HDD adds complexity) where I can just load all the kids' videos on the media player and bring the media player into the car to have all their "shut the hell up and zone out you little punks" entertainment in the car and easily accessed.
The videos are mostly ISO disc images, with some mkv files from BD stuff. Ability to play some of the other stuff like avi xvid etc. would be nice but don't currently have video in those formats. I really want ease here, so don't want to have to convert anything into different formats. Just want to load up the thing with video files then bring it out to the car and have it work. Therefore the media player should be able to handle all those video types. As my wife is the minivan driver/kid wrangler, the controls on the media player need to be pretty straightforward - she hated a popcorn hour we briefly had and refused to deal with it but can handle xbmc and windows media center, if that gives you an idea of what I'm going for.
So. Anyone know of something that fits the bill? Thanks in advance.
My superfly minivan has a DVD player with a ceiling video screen. DVDs are a pain to deal with. But the system also has component inputs (I think - I get the names mixed up but we have inputs with the yellow red white). I would like a media player with internal HDD (since it'll be in a car streaming off my home network is an obvious no go and needing a separate external HDD adds complexity) where I can just load all the kids' videos on the media player and bring the media player into the car to have all their "shut the hell up and zone out you little punks" entertainment in the car and easily accessed.
The videos are mostly ISO disc images, with some mkv files from BD stuff. Ability to play some of the other stuff like avi xvid etc. would be nice but don't currently have video in those formats. I really want ease here, so don't want to have to convert anything into different formats. Just want to load up the thing with video files then bring it out to the car and have it work. Therefore the media player should be able to handle all those video types. As my wife is the minivan driver/kid wrangler, the controls on the media player need to be pretty straightforward - she hated a popcorn hour we briefly had and refused to deal with it but can handle xbmc and windows media center, if that gives you an idea of what I'm going for.
So. Anyone know of something that fits the bill? Thanks in advance.
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