2003 E46 BMW 3 Series Ci Coupe UK Install Complete - custom dash/RR skin - many pics!

**lloydy** · 04-15-2006, 05:15 PM

I have a WinTV (with FM) TV card (on old cheap thing I got for £14 off eBay inc Delivery). This is plugged into the line in on my USB sound card. The antenna from the car is plugged into it for reception. See above posts in this thread for more info on the antenna.

Hope this helps!

LLOYDY

**Cinco5** · 05-19-2006, 11:02 PM

I'd be weary of trying this with a PC however with regular HU's generally the best way to eliminate ground loops is to ground the head unit with a large wire at the point where all the other audio components are located. IE: Ground distro block in the trunk. The reason being is RCA connections are unbalanced meaning they work by taking an AC voltage on the center conductor and comparing it to the ground of the sheild. Problem is when you have this grounded at multiple points some problems arise. First off the head unit is typically grounded closer to the source of power, which is the battery and the alternator. The amps which are some distance away are generally grounded at the rear of the car to the frame. Although it is very slight, the resistance of frame at the amps is generally higher than that at the point of radio grounding thus making comparing the ground reference at the source different than the amps, the amps see this as signal and thus create the ground noise.

Some things to try would be running a heavy gauge ground wire from the source to one of the ground terminals of the amps. Also try relocating the ground point of the amps to other locations making sure to sand down all paint at the point of contact. Cars are constructed of many pieces of steel and generally are only welded with a limited number of spot welds thus making the actual conducting area much smaller than you might think. Also be sure that all of your amps are grounded to ONE point, IE: if you have 2 amps and they just use a short cable screwed to the nearest point on the cars body. This can cause all kinds of fun interference in a cars electrical system.

**bimmerpc** · 05-23-2006, 05:53 PM

Maybe a silly question but since there was some recent talk about the perfect embedding of Powerdvd into RR I have also got the thing to look perfect. But it works like this

When inserting a dvd (autoplay enabled) the movie plays nice but my mouse pointer keeps moving to top right of my screen all by itself and because of that the control bar from Power dvd is always visible

The play button inside RR dvd-player skin doesnt have any function, I have to press the play button that appears on the PowerDVD control bar on top of the screen to start a dvd if the dvd is in the tray from start. The other (forward,skip, open tray) does work from RR in addition to the native PowerDVD controls

Some kind of collision here or what?

**bimmerpc** · 05-24-2006, 11:37 AM

Here is the content of my menu.skin in simplistique folder:

MEDIACAR Skin
MEDIACAR menu. Skin
menu_OFF.jpg,menu_OFF.jpg,menu_ON.jpg,menu_DOWN.jp g

/, Y, Back Slider file path
Y01,"\volume_slider\volume_*.jpg"

/, S, x, y, w, h, x1, y1, w1, h1, O, Style, Pointer file path, h2, Code;SLIDERCODES, Tooltip
S01,303,520,215,45,303,520,215,45,H,01,"",013,"MAS TER",""

/, B, x, y, w, h, Command;COMMANDCODES, Tooltip
B04,0,402,348,80,"LOAD;POWERDVD_PLAYER.skin",""
B03,0,307,270,80,"VIDEO",""
B08,455,402,350,80,"LOAD;GAMES.skin",""
B07,530,307,275,80,"WEB",""
B06,540,212,300,80,"LOAD;IGUIDANCE.skin;iGuidance;C:\Program Files\iNav\iGuidance Europe\iGuidance.exe;!IntellinavWCls!iGuidance",""
B02,0,212,270,80,"RADIO",""
B01,0,116,290,80,"AUDIO",""
B05,520,117,360,82,"LOAD;AVerTV.skin;AVerTV;C:\AVe rTV\AVerTV.exe;!AVerTV_Video!AverTV - Video||STOP",""
B12,632,512,86,87,"VOL+",""

/, L, x, y, w, h, color R;RGB, G, B, font size;FONT, font name, Code;LABELCODES, Tooltip;LABELALIGNMENT
L03,591,66,120,30,255,255,255,16,"Arial:B","DATE", ""
L02,590,35,200,40,255,255,255,24,"DotMatrix","TIME ",""

/, I, x, y, w, h, Code;INDICATORCODES
I01,715,512,90,87,"MASTERMUTE"

/, B, x, y, w, h, Command;COMMANDCODES, Tooltip
B11,547,512,87,87,"VOL-",""
B09,121,503,108,104,"EXITMENU",""

/, L, x, y, w, h, color R;RGB, G, B, font size;FONT, font name, Code;LABELCODES, Tooltip;LABELALIGNMENT
L04,421,46,74,35,255,102,0,18,"Digital Readout Thick Upright:B","REMAININGTRACKTIME",""
L01,10,46,396,35,255,102,0,18,"Digital Readout Thick Upright:B","TAGARTIST||= - ||TAGTITLE||=","SCROLL-LEFT"

/, B, x, y, w, h, Command;COMMANDCODES, Tooltip
B90,0,502,109,100,"LOAD;menu2.skin",""

/, F, x, y, w, h, Movie name
F01,274,133,252,332,"logo.swf"

END

**bimmerpc** · 05-24-2006, 11:41 AM

Would be nice to be able to operate dvd´s from the built in control puttons also for play and that the powerdvd bar doesnt show up every other second. Any suggestions?

I dont mind installing another dvd player but I have read that powerdvd should be easy to embedd....

**bimmerpc** · 05-24-2006, 11:50 AM

video setings RR

**diskey** · 05-24-2006, 11:53 AM

Nicest of all would be if you could fix the radio and tv skins and add phone control

I've had my carputer for like two months now and 99% of the time I've used your skin, it's defenatly my favourite, and I've treid quite a lot of skins!

**maddop** · 10-04-2006, 04:18 PM

I would just like to say, excellent skin.
This is definately the best skin I have seen and used.

As previous post says, phonecontrol would be nice.

I am currently having trouble with MapMonkey, I have edited the menu.skin file to point to mapmonkey. It loads mapmonkey but in the background... unfortunately its not embedded.

If I use the standard skin with RR then it all works ok...

any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Paul.