Paintballbreak Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 This is a mod to enable simple video playback on the avic-d1 through the use of an external hard drive player. It also can do mp3's and pictures. AVI, Divx, Mp4 are supported *Items needed -Hdd Player (type it in ebay) *pic of disassembled one on pg 2 -video harness for the avic-d1 if not included -xm/sirius cigarette adapter or oem psp adapter or hdd player adapter (ebay) -hard drive to put into to test the adapter (recommended) -bypass ebrake and bypass on extra slot in connector (recommended) *Steps 1.After doing to ebrake bypass and the connector bypass you have to take the power adapter that you have and cut it (for the tip) 2.Solder the tip into the cigarette adapter that you brought 3.Make sure a fuse is somewhere in your setup 4.You can possibly take the cigarette adapter apart to make to nicer looking but mine is hidden so i dont care 5.Run wire from you adapter to the avic-d1 harness and make sure to ground it 6.Run av wire be careful because the wire is cheap! 7.Test and enjoy. *if the screen looks green and copied on two sides then all you do is press the vga button which switches it to rca mode *hard drive is the fastest for videos,mp3's, pictures, etc because the sd card is slow RESULTS* *edited to make more instructional Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KingkonG.RL Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 i was thinkin of getting one of those. i want to know what the display looks like tho! if u end up doing it lemme know! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nuflat Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Stupid question, but how would you hook it up to the Nav unit, if it's USB? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paintballbreak Posted December 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 the hdd player has rca out thus can be connected into the rca in on the d1 I will let you know how it turns out with pics but probably after xmas because the package is coming from china Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hottwhyrd Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 i dont know if breakthrough is the word. but a good idea Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KingkonG.RL Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 I will let you know how it turns out with pics but probably after xmas because the package is coming from china thx man id appreciate that.. im working on something a bit more intense right now than an hdd player. im talkin a whole computer hooked up to it. should be fuckin sweet!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paintballbreak Posted December 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 yea i actually was going to put a computer in my passat too cause i have an olpc dev board and it is really small but the problem was that it only had vga out and in order to get it to go to rca i had to buy a special converter box so that idea got trashed hopefully this hdd player will work cause i really want that 2girls1cup in my car...hahahah jp Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KingkonG.RL Posted December 6, 2007 Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 ew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol nasty m-fer lol.. k well im a bit of a computer geek and u dont need a special converter box, u need an RCA adapter that goes from vga to svid and the drivers for it. u can find them for like 10 bucks on ebay. ur main concern when putting a pc in the car is first of all the hard drive has to be easilly removable, if it freezes and u start it its gona crack the hard drive and ur gona ruin it. secondly it needs to be VERY well secured, id suggest a peice of styrofoam surrounding it for bumps and all. also u need to be careful for humidity. what im doing is taking a regular desktop motherboard and putting it in an amp box so thats made for the humidity to stay out. all this in the trunk with extensions to the front for everything including booting from an external hard drive which will be in the glove compartment so i can take out. if you need any help just pm me, ill be glad to give u some tips Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hottwhyrd Posted December 6, 2007 Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 killen em that sounds cool as all hell kingkong. make a thread of ur own with progress n problems n such. i wanna make a pc setup for an avalanche. plenty of room in bed but plenty of humidity too. what about a laptop harddrive? arent they better at handleing impact/ vibration? sry to jack the thread but im quite interested in pc's in cars. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Two_Cold Posted December 6, 2007 Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 Thanks for the tip. I didn't know they had come down in price so much. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paintballbreak Posted December 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 hey king kong thanks for the advice but i gave up on putting a computer in because i had a little form linux computer and i couldnt find any drivers for it and i did buy that cable on ebay and it didnt work o well this hdd player will work and thanks to your advice i will make it easily removable because it is pretty cold here in ny especially in the morning like 20 F right now plus a full form factor computer would take up too much space in my passat and im too lazy to run cables from the trunk so thats why i want something simple in the glovebox btw got some custom backgrounds on my avic-d1 thanks to this forum! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KingkonG.RL Posted December 6, 2007 Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 killen em that sounds cool as all hell kingkong. make a thread of ur own with progress n problems n such. i wanna make a pc setup for an avalanche. plenty of room in bed but plenty of humidity too. what about a laptop harddrive? arent they better at handleing impact/ vibration?sry to jack the thread but im quite interested in pc's in cars. haha ya im sory for the thread jacking too. ill start my own when i start the progress (after xmas i have too much work for a project like that right now) i forgot to mention the harddrive im gona use is gona be a laptop portable one. they have computers made for cars taht are liek shock proof and humidity proof but ur lookin at about 3000 AT LEAST for a crappy one. im goin for the biggest bang for my buck i figure the most expensive part is the d3 lol .. ur best bet is getting a whole laptop mother board and have the harddrive extended, but im not doing that cuz their a lil more pricey than a desktop motherboard. like i said as long as u secure everything reallly well u should be good with the desktop motherboard Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BIGVOD007 Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 THEY HAVE A SITE CANT REALLY REMEMBER MOBILEPC OR SOMETING THEY START @ 300 BUCKS Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BobyYoo Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 anybody ordered that hdd drive yet?? i want to know the picture quality? also, does it comes with a remote, how do you choose which movie you want to watch? Right now, i'm using an external dvd player, small one, and the image sux, alot of static due to the cigarette light plug, it is taking all the static noise from my car alternator. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paintballbreak Posted January 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 i received the hard drive player today lol it took 35 days to come from china the quality is really nice and I was actually impressed will install it tomorrow and will throw pics up on here Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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