Please dont cc me i am already on the list On Sunday 07 August 2005 09:49, nadarajan poniah wrote: > > With inputs from the gurus on this ml and from > > Sherlock, i have decided to make use of the Via-ITX > > board for the MP3 player on which i will connect a > > 64MB IDE Flash for the Shrinked Operating System and > > an LCD Display along with a Remote via the > > serial/Paralell connectors. > > You must be joking. If a guru advised you to do that, you should > question whether he is a real guru. You say you want to build an > mp3 player right? The mini-ITX board is expensive and it would be a > total absolute waste to use it as an mp3 player only. It would be > much cheaper to buy a SqueezeBox which is already geared up as an > mp3 player. http://www.slimdevices.com/ . All the features you > could want is already there including LCD, remote. I think the > price was around rs8000.
>From where? For the same price you can get far more with an i386. > And because you say you will only have > 64MB flash, then what you are trying to build will still need a PC > to host your mp3 collection. And that is of course the same as the > SqueezeBox. By flash he meant pendrive. If u use uclinux you will fit into 32mb, leaving 32 mb free. And u have 4 usb ports to connect a pendrive. Not forgetting that u could start with a 256mb pendrive, or add a hardisk, or cdrom. The Squeezebox is only slightly better than other embedded boards discussed IF available at your price in Mumbai cause it includes a vfd, box and psu. > > If you actual reason was because you wanted to learn how to build a > Linux embedded system, maybe yes. But even then, you would be > better off getting a real embedded board with a MIPS or ARM cpu > like something from ncoretech, beta comptronics or a local vendor. Not unless you want the low power consumption and portability as the prime design goals. rgds jtd -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
