LVD-2001 Firmwire Hack?

[ps2wiz]

Has a firmwire hack been developed yet so that you can hook up other IDE devices to it like Hard Drives?

[stevodude]

yes yes yes, damn fine idea.

Just got my lvd-2001 yesterday, & did the normal thing have a look under the bonett

To add a removable HDD would be cool, but also what about a PCMCIA network adapter?... link it on your network & view/play movies stored on you pc?

or even wireless pcmcia adapter.

both of those would be fairly straight foward cause it already has the pcmcia services loaded...

Only problem I've had is it won't play my AVI's from my Digital Camera Canon Ixus 400.)

[ps2wiz]

Yea, every one I have asked, tells me that this is a good idea. But no one actually know how to do this. I belive this should be easy since the firmwire is a linux based OS, all you got to do is look at the source code and a driver, i belive.

[vitualis]

Only problem I've had is it won't play my AVI's from my Digital Camera Canon Ixus 400.)

I'm not entirely sure why you would expect that it could. The "AVI" file is simply a container. It's the actual codec that matters. That particular player is capable of decoding DivX material (DivX4/5 and some DivX 3.11). It does not state that it can decode MJPEG which pretty much means that it can't.

Regards.

[Hatz]

Or better yet add a RAID card and keep your drive, add a hard drive, and a wireless adapter........hehehe

A guy can dream can't he? :P

[Brant]

I have tried to put a hard drive in, hoping that it would have the linux support but no. It would be really nice to have a hard drive. I am almost positive it can be done because kiss has some with hard drives and they use the same hardware.

[stevodude]

if the kiss use's the same hardware, whats the chance of installing the kiss firmware? or a variation...