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Thread: Have: Alpine d300, h701 processor, amps, everything. Want: cpu video/audio

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    Have: Alpine d300, h701 processor, amps, everything. Want: cpu video/audio

    I have an Alpine iva-d300 headunit (touchscreen fwiw), an h701 processor, amps, speakers, etc, etc. My goal is to have a computer with the purpose of simply storing audio/video files on and playing them through my headunit.

    I know that it's next to impossible to use my headunit's screen as a monitor for a carpc, but is there any way I can not buy a carpc monitor? I don't plan on doing anything but "calling up" files. I'm almost certain there's no way I can get around this issue, but I thought I would ask to make sure.

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    Oh, there's no doubt you could get around this issue. In fact, one of the popular car interfaces, CarBot, doesn't use a screen at all. Simply for playing audio (I don't know how you plan on watching videos w/o a screen) all you need is basically a pentium 2 running DOS with an MP3 player such as DAMP. That would give you a setup that boots nearly instantly, plays your audio as soon as it boots up, and lets you switch between files on command. If you wanted to get fancy, you could use another OS with speech recognition and such, but that's for another day.

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