replace dvd-drive with hard disk drive?

[manzu68]

Is it possible to replace the dvd-drive in a dvd player by a pc hard disk drive? Would the dvdplayer accept the drive with larger storage?
If it would I could use my older hard-disks to storage all my movies instead of burning CD's.
Does anybody know about any software which will support "burning" files in iso format in a hard-disk (Or should it be recorded in CDFS filesystem)?
:rolleyes:

[Bro]

Is it possible to replace the dvd-drive in a dvd player by a pc hard disk drive?
feel free to correct me..but no!
If the player was ment for a dvd-player, you can not replace it with a hdd.
With a kiss DP-500 you can add a hdd, but then you have to uppdate with the firmware of DP-508 which is sold with both a hdd and a dvd-drive.

[Zhnujm]

Some time ago i read about a few people that were able to do that with their players.
Cant remmeber the site or wich player they used, i think the main points are:
-a player with a standard ide interface to connect the hd
-the hd must be formatted in iso format wich can be done with linux if i remember correctly

I tried searching for it but i cant find the site anymore...

[clayts450]

I tried searching for it but i cant find the site anymore...

Good job I post here isn't it ?!

Certainly not impossible, but the limits are that you must have an IDE interface on your processor board (currently used by the DVD loader), an ESS Videodrive ES4318/4408 chipset in your player (increasingly rare these days, but they were around in huge quantities in the early 00s until MediaTek muscled in on the budget DVD player territory) and preferably an Analog Devices ADV7170 or 7175 video encoder (although some Cirrus Logics CS4954/4955 players have been converted too).

All stems from some radical reverse engineering carried out on player firmware extracted from Sampo America's revolutionary (and the first despite what Sony/Panasonic might say) Compact Flash card reading DVD player, the DVE-631CF, released in Autumn 2001. As all Sampo players (until recently anyway) operated IDE DVD-ROM loaders, the addition of a second IDE device (the CF reader) made us at Area 450 pose the inevitable "what if ?" question....

It all ballooned from there - there's now a whole Yahoo group devoted to patching the Sampo DVE631CF firmware so that it can run on a variety of US, European and Australian players (even some in South America, too !), enabling the owner to hook up not just a hard drive on it's own, but a hard drive and the original DVD loader !

A more detailed history of the work that went on is available at Area 450 here (http://www.area450.com/firmware/patchingindex.htm), whilst the Yahoo Group can be found here (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OneFirmwareForAll) - make sure you read the FAQ first before asking basic questions, as it's all covered in there :)

You can also see some of the mad things folks have done using this heavily modified firmware here (http://www.area450.com/thesampozone/articles/connectindex.htm).

Nerds ? Us ? Nah.... We did, however, beat Kiss to the punch by two whole years :)

[SeeMoreDigital]

Originally posted by clayts450
...enabling the owner to hook up not just a hard drive on it's own, but a hard drive and the original DVD loader! Blimey,

I guess the next logical step would be to chuck out the original DVD-ROM drive and replace it with a DVD burner. And then add more software. And then an encoder. And then more software. And then, and then, and then...

Why not just add network (and/or FireWire) capability, as standard to all future players - or old players if possible?

Cheers

[clayts450]

Two plucky owners have managed that - network here (http://www.area450.com/thesampozone/articles/wad.htm) (Very expensive solution), FireWire (in terms of updating the hard drive contents) here (http://www.area450.com/thesampozone/articles/addfirewire.htm).

I think adding a burner is a bridge too far, however... - we're talking a 512kB firmware file after all ! :p