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[Keltik]

I don't think it could reboot to the same playlist (let alone track / point in the track) but I like your thinking - onboard entertainment for the whole family

Now imagine if you could connect that xbox with a wireless network adapter to the hotspots that are springing up all over - you could link direct to your PC over the net and stream stuff - radio - films - music etc - direct to your car

Sorry a bit ahead of myself (and the technology) but I was just talking about putting an XBox in a car the other day and the conversation went off down that path - so I thought I'd share the sci-f.

Maybe by XBox 3/4

In the meantime I will watch this thread with interest to see what the tech wizzards on here come up with.

Peace

[biggalittle]

I help my friend put a Xbox (un-moded) in his truck. I plan on putting my Xbox (60gig , X2v2 with XBMP as the dash)  pro in car this spring. I am just looking for a way to get GPS on the XBOX before I do it.

[yourwishismine]

I don't think the ability to do that would be extremely difficult to code into XBMP, but it's not already there... anyway.. I have a question on this subject.. how are you going to power you xbox from the car's batter/alternator.... wouldn't it be a huge drain on the battery and wear and tear on the alternator... let alone have to find a way to convert the power without fluxuation as well... I'm not asking out of saying that it can't be done.. I'm asking cause I want to do this... I think it would be great to just pop the trunk, plug in a couple of controllers and play...

[underdog1]

Pop the trunk?  Why not use wireless controllers?  That would be pretty sweet, huh?

So, do the creator(s) of XBMP read these posts?

[yourwishismine]

[drunkpug]

i have seen this done in 1 car and 1 suv

first suv belongs to a local nfl player that a buddy of mine did the install for system has tv's in every head rest, tv's in each of the visors, tv in the front top console like where the gas read out would be in the caddie escelade. a 15 inch flip down right behind the font passenger seats. and 1 in the rear . total lcd tv's 9 x box is hooked up to inverter he has 12 jl.13w6 in a white fiberglass box with the xbox mounted in the trunk with the top exposed.  works better than any sort of in car navigation or cd player on the market.  On the net i see alot of people putting pc's in there cars. that is ok but this is ALOT cheaper.

the car is a older caddie that a buddy of mine owns
he has the motherboard of the xbox mounted in his glove compartment along with the hard drive there is a plexi glass windows over the xbox. The cd rom drive and the controller ports are mounted in the center console towards the bottom shit. he has a tv on the outside of the glove box and one in the steering wheel.

any one who has a tv in there car and no modded xbox is lacking in intelligence.  250Gb hard drive filled with music vidz u cant beat it.

[joseph_hac]

QUOTE (underdog1 @ Feb 5 2004, 08:28 PM)

Yes, it's strange that nobody has talked about it HERE (unless I missed it). How do other devices do it?  Like the Linux based car mp3 player RioCar (riocar.org).   They are reading MP3 files just like XBMP.   Do they have to record the state of the player somewhere so that when the power goes off and comes back on it can resume? What could be different here is that most car audio decks have two sources of power.  One is always on, and one is on when the ignition is switched on.  Of course the XBox doesn't have this type of power, so that could make it complex. Perhaps someone out there has some good ideas.....

I think it can very easily be implemented in XBMP. When you shut off the XBOX, it can write a small binary file that holds the path and file name of the media that is currently playing, along with the seek time. That way, when XBMP boots up, it can look to see if that binary file is present. If so, then resume playing the media.

The only thing is, you would have to always shut off the XBOX through the power off button in XBMP. Then the code could be written into that event procedure. If you just powered off the XBOX with the power button (hard boot), XBMP wouldn't be able to save the state.

[joseph_hac]

QUOTE (underdog1 @ Feb 8 2004, 04:19 AM)

Well, I was thinking along those lines.... If XBMP recorded which file it was playing or where it was in the playlist before it played each song, it could start playing that song from the beginning (which wouldn't be TOO bad, but it's not what we're used to) OR Like I was saying before, there are usually 2 power sources.  One is constantly on, and one is switched with the ignition.  So, there would have to be some way for the xbox to run on the constant power, but save its state and shut down when the switched power goes off (like all car stereo decks do).

I don't realy understand what your saying about constant power. One of the greatest aspects of the XBOX is it's hard drive. Those other car stereos need constanbt power because they use volatile memory. It wouldn't make any sense at all to store the 'hibernate' information in RAM.

This is how I see it working:

-You push the shut off button in XBMP.
-XBMP creates a bookmark file (just like with vids) called 'resume.bkm'
-XBMP then powers off the XBOX

When you turn on your XBOX:

-XBMP boots from BIOS
-Checks bookmark directory for resume.bkm.
-If it is present, execute the bookmark and continue playing the media, then delete resume.bkm.
-If it isn't present, do nothing.

I think it would be pretty easy to do. The bookmark class is already built into XBMP. You would just need to instantiate another instance of the object if media is playing when the shutdown button is pressed. Problem solved.

You wanna know what I wanna see in XBMP? A sleep timer! I would love to be able to listen to ShoutCAST streams as I fell asleep without worrying about my XBOX being on all night.

I wonder if anyone is dtill developing for XBMP? I know new codec are being added continually, but is anyone actively developing it?

[joseph_hac]

probably.