[TriLUG] mostly OT: movies on the go?

[C TC via TriLUG]

I'd go for inexpensive tablets for sure. Add in some cheap
cases that hang from the seats; or make them if you are crafty.
Regarding the kids reading ... you can drop a few books
(and comics) to the tablets. Kids LOVE tablets. I think you'd
stack plenty of Dad points going this route.

Great points Igor.  I built a Mini-ITX "car-puter" a lifetime ago.
Even though I had the correct inverter setup, the power on/off
beat the heck out of the filesystem. For the same money these
days, I could run a small public cloud from my vehicle.







On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Igor Partola via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
> wrote:

> I have thought about doing something with my car to allow us to play loads
> of movies. It already has a built-in DVD player, but that would mean toting
> a huge number of DVD's with me. Fortunately, the video system does have an
> RCA input so I could theoretically hook up something like a Raspberry Pi to
> it with XBMC running. Here's where I stopped thinking about it though: the
> Raspberry Pi has no internal batter backup, and has no ability to power
> itself off. So when I kill the engine, the RPi would just turn right off
> and that would do really bad things to the filesystem. Turns out that
> because XBMC runs a database to keep all the metadata, and cutting the
> power to it easily corrupts it.
>
> Now, I did find a few interesting projects that try to fix this. For
> example, one had a harness which would connect directly to the car battery,
> but also to the cigarette lighter and detect when the power was cut to shut
> down the RPi. However, at the time I was looking into this they were
> expensive and I didn't want to bother.
>
> Long story short, a laptop hidden under the seat + a screen would most
> likely do it in my case. If I didn't have a built-in screen, I'd go for a
> couple of $80 tablets.
>
> Igor
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