From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 18:46:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F5516A4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:46:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msr7.hinet.net (msr7.hinet.net [168.95.4.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C4643FE5 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:46:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net) Received: from sonic.utopia.com (61-227-219-215.HINET-IP.hinet.net [61.227.219.215]) by msr7.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA16920 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:46:12 +0800 (CST) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:12:57 +0800 From: Robert Storey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030918091257.47d90830.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> In-Reply-To: <200309171833.MAA45872@kashmir.thend.org> References: <200309171833.MAA45872@kashmir.thend.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-debian-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD up to this job? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:46:17 -0000 On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:33:30 -0600 (MDT) "Jeremy Pavleck" wrote: > Hi gang, > I was looking at purchasing a jukebox recently for a poolhall. When > all is said and done, I found a refurbished 100 cd jukebox which I > thought was really nice, until I heard the price - $4500. This is on > par with a lot of older refurbished models, and the price can double > for newer ones! So, the gears in my head started turning, and I > mentally devised a plan to build my own jukebox that does more then > your "standard" juke for a lot less money. Though I am unfortunately > more of a Windows guy, I am thinking of turning to FBSD for this job. > > My plan is to build a custom "jukebox looking" enclosure like everyone > > is used to seeing in bars, poolhalls, etc. In place of the CD changer > I'd like to have a full PC (Thinking XP2800, 1GB RAM, 500Gb SATA RAID) > > built inside, connected to a CD changer that I can control. This way I > > can offer more then just CDs, but mp3s and videos as well. I'd like to > > pick up a nice vid card (Say an ATI Radeon 9xxx Pro series with > S-Video out) and setup the S-Video side to stream videos/xmms mp3/cd > visualizations to 6 TVs spread throughout the place. > In place of the normal song selection screen you normally see, I'd > like to place a 17 or 19" LCD that only display 4-8 CD covers & song > lists at a time. It's a clever idea. I'm certainly no expert, but I should think it would be a whole lot cheaper if you could dispense with the physical CD changer and just implement the music with mp3. I'm less sure about video - there might be legal issues with taking copy-protected DVDs and turning them into mpegs. Anyway, the more you do with software and the less with hardware, the less this thing will cost. regards, Robert