haha…. thanks ! but i dont think i do

here’s how you do it, find a cheap keyboard that has Play, Stop, Fwd etc separate buttons on the keyboard it self, this keyboards are called, multimedia keyboards.

then open it up, find witch connection are touching when you press play, fwd, the wire them to each button on the front panel. you may have to follow the paths on the plastic keyboard lines. but you can figure them out. you can test them while the keyboard is connected to the computer. and putting a wire on the right connections and seeing them functioning or not. then you can solder them.

this is something i’ve been wanting to do for a very long time, but just haven’t been able to do yet… thanks for the inspiration.

could you go into some more details on what you did regarding the keyboard conversion to use the case FF/Play/RW buttons? I’m am not an electrical engineer kinda guy, so i have no clue what equipment is needed to do this other than a solder iron and paitience. Perhaps a detail article or write up please? You said you figured it out, but that converts to “it’s magic” to me lol..

thanks!

anyway nice interest and nice stuff about that , OpenRemote , keyboard Hacks , LPT control etc.
how did you interconnect the media app to the deamon you whatever the process that controls that
those devices , inter process communication with the Windows Media center application , or did
you write a addon for the Windows Media Center ?

the Windows Media Center get controlled via a normal Keyboard, the front panel is a normal keyboard, but i have taken a keyboard apart and use the controller in the keyboard to connect to the front panel buttons on the CD player and the remote is also a HID (Human Interface Device) meaning it act as a normal keyboard and mouse. so you dont need any special plugins or controllers to control the media center, it work as we would normaly do with a keyboard and a mouse.

and there are linux based media centers too.but I don’t think that every codec and the
multimedia hardware acceleration will be fully supported like inside in windows Media Center.

any linux system will run fine on this and every thing should work, for the VFD you have to work on it but every thing else would work, i have tested LinuxMCE and GeeXboX and both worked fine.

and I heard about the ppl like you , but don’t believe that called “sound pillers” or some.
Can you carefully identify what is the codec and data loss things when playing and you hearing ? Wow very nice even neural nets can’t. How it works is outside my question. But
that’s very nice.

i dont call my self much of an audiophile but yes i can hear the deference from an MP3 196kbps to a CD

anyway nice interest and nice stuff about that , OpenRemote , keyboard Hacks , LPT control etc.
how did you interconnect the media app to the deamon you whatever the process that controls that
those devices , inter process communication with the Windows Media center application , or did
you write a addon for the Windows Media Center ?

How it works ?I’m really curious about this.My question is about can you give me some
information about how to use IPC mechanism to interconnect media player and your
OpenRemote API’s ? or what kind of architecture you have used?

and there are linux based media centers too.but I don’t think that every codec and the
multimedia hardware acceleration will be fully supported like inside in windows Media Center.

and I heard about the ppl like you , but don’t believe that called “sound pillers” or some.
Can you carefully identify what is the codec and data loss things when playing and you hearing ? Wow very nice even neural nets can’t. How it works is outside my question. But
that’s very nice.

yes, when taking a SPDIF it don’t really matter if its the inbuilt or external card, but the issue i had was the Intel board don’t have SPDIF out, i don’t wont to get the analog out since i want the DTS/DD to be decoded in my amp rather then in the PC it self, as i know the AMP has a far better D/A then the PC sound card.

Anyway. I just wanted to add that an Audigy sound card does not sound any better than an onboard sound card (e.g. realtek) when you are using SPDIF. This is because the main parts (D/A convertion) of the sound device are not used, the sound is just passed through without much processing. I think that money (and space inside that tiny case) can be spent better and I did alot of testing in that area.

Other than that, this is an awesome accomplishment – congrats!

ah this is not INR, its LKR (Sri Lankan Rupee)

its around US$1 = LKR Rs.113

anyway i did a ruff conversion, not an 100% one.

DIY project is cool but the dollar conversion rate is far of from the mark, I am assuming it is Indian Rupee

1$ = 40-50Rs

Intel Atom 1.6Ghz Motherboard D945GCLF – Rs.8100 (Around $80)
that should be 160-200$