CD / DVD playback

[Maladin]

Perhaps obvious but I didn't see it listed, so ...

Ripping MP3's from the CD's to the music folder would be nice too.

[Guest]

Second that!

[CodeMonkey]

Why not just setup your favorite windows app that does this in the config app under the directories tab, custom tasks. Then run the rippers whenever you need them.

[sub]

Yes, I agree that a ripper app would be good. Hopefully someone take this on as a plugin. I may in future, but I've got prenty of other things I have to do first.

CodeMonkey, remember that alot of user (XCARD/PVR350/MVP) cant see windows apps via their playback devices so they would need a more integrated solution.

[CodeMonkey]

Yeah I keep forgetting that. Just seems un-natural to me to not want to access windows too like via a wireless keyboard/mouse for web surfing etc. To each his own

[AndyCherry]

Quote[/b] (CodeMonkey @ April 26 2004,18:25)]Yeah I keep forgetting that.  Just seems un-natural to me to not want to access windows too like via a wireless keyboard/mouse for web surfing etc.  To each his own

CodeMonkey

Either you have a 60" plasma screen, or better than 20:20 vision!!

I have a 32" widescreen, and I can't read a #### thing on the screen from my Radeon's TV out.

Cheers,
Andy

[AndyCherry]

Hey very cool! Profanity deletion! I didn't do the ####'s - the board put those in for me. That'll teach me to say #### (oh #### I forgot I can't say #### on this #### thing!.

Cheers,
Andy

[colin]

The cd/mp3 plugin could be implemented by using the lame DLL or by writing a C# wrapper around the lame.exe command (assuming C# can exec() a command).

The latter should be fairly straight forward, then it can be migrated over to using the DLL at a later stage?

Colin.

[CodeMonkey]

Quote[/b] (AndyCherry @ April 27 2004,04:21)]Either you have a 60" plasma screen, or better than 20:20 vision!!  

I have a 32" widescreen, and I can't read a #### thing on the screen from my Radeon's TV out.

I have a 32" non-widescreen and don't have any issues reading the screen. Not that I would do any coding that way, or use Word mind you. But running a CD ripper or IE is no problem.

[CodeMonkey]

I still don't see the need (OK, I'm thick ), but if someone wants to do a gbpvr native cd ripper, here is a good place to start.  This project is open source, rips CDs and stores as MP3's.  All you would have to do is replace the UI with one in GDI+ and port the rest of the code to fit as a gbpvr plugin.  Oh, and release the source I believe because of GPL.  

I suppose you could put the destination directory and CD drive info in the config.  Then automatically name the files something to avoid constant need of a keyboard.  

Have fun!