From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 22:12:39 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 E6DBB16A4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:12:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kashmir.thend.org (kashmir.thend.org [63.162.108.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1128E43FDD for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:12:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from judge@Pavleck.Com) Received: from localhost (judge@localhost) by kashmir.thend.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA55879; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:12:33 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from judge@Pavleck.Com) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:12:33 -0600 (MDT) From: "Jeremy D. Pavleck" X-Sender: judge@kashmir.thend.org To: Robert Storey In-Reply-To: <20030918091257.47d90830.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 05:12:39 -0000 Indeed. I'm thinking the CD changer would just overly complicate things. Right now, I feel 500GB of RAID 5 SATA storage will probably provide enough space plus plenty of room to grow. If I don't have a search feature, odds are I'll end up just deleting/moving the files off and loading new ones on. About the movies, well - I will probbaly mention it to my lawyer, but with things like this I tend to just do it and wait for a C&D letter to appear. Odds are I won't be yelled at for something like this, and it's somewhat of a grey area as it is. But I'll talk it over and see what the lawyer has to say. I'm pretty fired up about this whole thing, but I fear it's going to be a long and winding road, what with my meager income and overwhelming obstacles I have to face. Thanks for the input though, I appreciate it! ****************** Jeremy D. Pavleck jeremy@pavleck.com Tired of PayPal? Me too. Check out StormPay, it works the same way, with 110% less anal-retentiveness! http://www.stormpay.com/?193662 (Just my referral link, please help me earn a few cents :)) On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Robert Storey wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >