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

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!

Stupid question, but how would you hook it up to the Nav unit, if it's USB?

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

i dont know if breakthrough is the word. but a good idea

 

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!!!

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

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

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.

Thanks for the tip.

I didn't know they had come down in price so much.

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!

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

THEY HAVE A SITE CANT REALLY REMEMBER MOBILEPC OR SOMETING THEY START @ 300 BUCKS

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.

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

did you try it in the car or you home tv?

how do you plug in the car? does it come with the cigarrette plug??

make sure you start the car, and see if any static coming from your alternator

i did try it on my tv at home

it worked perfectly and it also plays from an sd card

the plan is that i will route the rca from the d1 and into the glove box where the hdd player will be

my friend who is an expert at electronics will create a power cable for me

by using the power tip and by taking apart a phone charger

the great thing about this device is that it takes 5v to power it and basically that is a usb plug

i dont know yet about the static from the alternator but i will keep an eye out for that tommorow

some pics from my camera

yeah that is the thing, it will work perfect at home,

but once you plug it in the car, if the adapter is no good, it will pickup all the static from your alternator.

well since we will be reusing as phone adapter it shouldnt be a problem

and we will make sure to wrap it in electrical tape

i just bought one on ebay, but i found this website has it for cheaper

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8822

it work well at home. I didn't try it yet on my car.

I gotta find an adapter for it to use in the car.

maybe i'll just get a small cigarette inverter, those that convert 12v to 120v and just use the home adapter.

well since we will be reusing as phone adapter it shouldnt be a problem

and we will make sure to wrap it in electrical tape

btw, make sure you phone adapter have enought mA

the adapter that came with it has 2000mA

i tried to use an universal adapter that has 500mA and it did not work. It was not strong enought to power the hard drive.

yes I got it to work I will post pictures tommorow on my first post

what i used to power the hard drive player was a xm/sirus cigarette lighter adapter that cranked out 6v and 1000mA. This is good enough for it and my 80b seagate hdd

if anyone has any questions I will be more then glad to help.

Detailed pics soon

o btw, I realized that I didnt do the bypass so i just did it and works flawlessly

so it worked well on the car while running?? No static or line that goes up and down?

yes it did work perfectly

running the wire was the worst part...lol

I have the Vantec AVOX player with 120GB harddrive. If yours runs on 5v2a like mine does, an OEM Sony PSP adapter works great. Had it on my N3 for over a year now and had it professionally hardwired into my Expedition last summer.