https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1554&p=23146#p23146 ----------------------------------- Tormie Sunday, 17 July 2005, 05:20 PM I just built a Media center ! ----------------------------------- Ok, it's not poser/Posette :heartbeat: related but I want to tell you about my last "experiment". Just under my tv I had a sat receiver and a dvd/dvx reader + a dolby 5.1 amplifier. I spent 59 € for the amplifier some times ago at the hard discount store, the receiver was a "dreambox" and it costed me a lot and the dvd/dvx reader costs 39 €. I had the problem that the dxd read was unable to read all the dvx codecs so I thought to build a media center :lol: ... I sold the sat receiver at ebay for the right amount of € and bought a a barebone case, here it is : [url=http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3669&item=6784205253&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW](Tormie's Minipc) The I added the old cpu. memory modules and graphic card from my brother's pc (Ok, I bought for him new ones, more powerful, at ebay :roll: ) and bought at ebay an hard disk, a sat card [url=http://www.technisat.de/de/produkte/produkteview.php?kid=1,29&pid=1390](Tormie's sat card) and what I plundered from my brother's PC :whistle: and assembled it all. I needed also a windows xp media center 2005 edition with the IR remote control and a wireless keyboard, mouse and lan card, found at a reasonable price at ebay. At last it costed me about 400 €, I found the money selling my reciever (250€) , an old russian radio and a commodore 64 C :crybaby: (But I still have a better and older one here :whistle: ) It works very well :) , but the reason why I posted this message is that if you want to do something similar I suggest you to try this wonderful (and totally freeware :whistle: ) piece of software :[url=http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/]Mediaportal It's an alternative to the Windows Media Center and it works better, a lot better and has the support for all my old :oops: hardware (I don't need new things to do a simple job like reading some dvx on the dvd reader). Try it, it worths the cost (zero)... :lol: