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daywane:
At our lake house (trailer)
my bed room is small. (2 bed rooms, Father-in-law has master room . I have the small room)
we have it set up very comfortable but no real room. 
full size bed, takes most all floor space. room just left over to walk between 2 closets and a set of built in drawers, ( drawers are in between closets)(all built into wall.)

MY HP 730meg PC was jerky with the DVDs (320meg memory) (could be a bad DVD drive, not sure yet) (motherboard will not take more ram than that. Have 4 of these machines and all are that way on memory  :dunno)
AVI files were on Hard drive and played Fine
tried WinDVD, Windows media player classic and newest Windows media player  version with XP service PAC 3

Wife just want to put in a DVD and player will just pop up and go to full screen . she understand having to hit play but gets annoyed with having to go down and hit full screen

I can go with a larger PC if needed ( I think I need a bigger system anyway because Atomic FE with angelfires SNES plugNplay slow on this system)

how would you build a media center.
needs to play
consoles.
 NES, Snes, Sega Gen, Tgx16, N64 would be a plus but not a must

MP3 player

DVD Player and AVI player
that will go to full screen on play
Oh... buy the way... I amusing a Crayola track ball if that has any thing to do with it.

J_K_M_A_N:
At the risk of starting something, I would use a modded xbox. You can play DVD's and games on it. But that is just me. :)

J_K_M_A_N

CCM:
I was looking into a modded xbox running XBMC and found out that there is a Linux port of XBMC.  If you want to use a PC instead of an xbox that could be the way to go.

http://xbmc.org/

SNAAKE:

--- Quote from: J_K_M_A_N on May 26, 2008, 10:19:22 pm ---At the risk of starting something, I would use a modded xbox. You can play DVD's and games on it. But that is just me. :)

J_K_M_A_N

--- End quote ---

beat me to it. xbox is like the best and the cheapest "media center". its only like $60 at gamestop now(less on craigslist) and you can tsop flash it softmod it. get a logitec wireless controller and you are set.  :cheers:


for the record, I have 4 xboxes at my house lol. 1 for my arcade cabinet and another for my media center and my brothers have their own for music or whatever..

daywane:
I thought of a Xbox but I do not own one.
I have PC's a plenty.

How well do the Xbox's DVD drives hold out? Playstation 2 drives are junk

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