I am very sorry, but these are all pics I made.

wow, that's pretty cool,

so none of wires connected to Head unit beside AUX cable to get audio source from your DVD/TV-Tuner, but you still need to use AUX mode and remote control to access DVD play mode? Am I correct?

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I developed a CD-Changer emulator, so I can use the Stereo-Audio input of the radio.

My "main" audio source is a modified HDD Multimedia player.
The device holds an 80GB 2,5" notebook HDD.
I developed an interface module to fully control this player via the onboard-monitor buttons.
The interface also emulates a BMW CD-changer so that I can connect it to the CDC stereo audio input.
Video is connected to the TV Tuner.

As you know, with the [mode] button of the onboard-monitor , you can circle switch the audio source between Radio, Tape and CD-changer.
As soon as you switch to CD-changer, my interface module switches the monitor image to the TV-Tuner image but the audio source will not be switched to TV-Tuner audio.
In this mode, the onboard-monitor buttons have new funktions to control the multimedia player.
e.g.: nav turn-knob to navigate through the menus,"1" is play, (opposite) "4" is stop, "2" is prev. "5" is next and so on...

The interface module also enables tv in motion (otherwise I could not see the players user interface)

The player makes it possible to use your own designed background.
So I designed a "BMW look" background that it looks like the rest of the onboard-monitor interface (blue)

in summery:
- player's audio is connected to CD-changer input of radio
- interface module emulates CD-changer to enable the radio's CD-changer input
- player's video is connected to TV-Tuner
- interface module enables tv in motion
- when switching throught with the [mode] button and you switch to CDC, the players interface will be displayed (in "BMW look")

advantages:
- absolutely fully integrated into the BMW system
- still hear and see the gps-navigation interrupts
- take 1000s of MP3s and Videos with you
- you can Play MP3, WMA, OGG, DivX, MPEG and DVD-Video (DVD files with full DVD menu like played with a Home DVD-player) and photo-images
- upload new files to the player via USB2.0 (with Notebook in the car or take the player out and copy with your home-PC)
- installation takes about 5 Minutes (only in trunk)


all in all:
it' like the BMW CD-Changer but holds massive audio and video content.
After coping content to the player, connection in the trunk (plug&play) you can start.

I hope you understood, all I wrote


The user interface:



the "special" buttons in media-player mode:
("1s" describes the function of the button if you press it longer than 1 second)

Ok, I think I have a better understanding now. Simply put, all you did is house the dvd player in the bordmonitor chasis. with no interconnection whatsoever. Mounting the DVD player upfront is just for the ease of use, like changing Cds, DVDs etc. Whoaaa, this is still interesting.


I suspect that you are using the cassette audio signal path to get the audio out of the player. I guess my next question would be, how are you getting the DVD video signal to display on the bordmonitor? Auxilarry input? TV Module? Hoemade switching system?

I do apologize if my questions seem confusing. I am still in amazed by the setup.

cassette audio input is not very suiteable so I use the CD-changer input
(see my previous post - I think we wrote our posts at the same time)
Video input: via BMW TV-Tuner

But I also plan to add a controlled RGB converter for cars without TV-Tuner (e.g. US where you can't even buy it)

Ask whatever you want! I posted here for communication

Thanks!

Very nice setup. Do you have a DIY for the benefit of X5world community?

I am still in development. There are still a few bugs left.

Without prising myself, but I don't think that a DIY guide would help anyone who would not be able to do this also without such a guide.

The "interface module" is not just a simple box with some wires and a relais.
It contains a complex PCB Layout, a 20MHz 8bit-Risc microprocessor and some SMD electronic devices.
Programming the processor equires a lot of know-how in microprocessor and automotive can-bus architecture, IR signals, etc...

But I plan to sell a plug&play package in the future.

I'll add that you can also accomplish this with a Zune. We can watch movies, and also have album art come up with playlists. It's killer. Just added the TV output cable for Zune under the carpet back to the trunk.

do you have any pictures of the interface in your car or a movie/song playing on it?

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