Very short DVD-ROM/CD-ROM drive, perfect for the A4000D!

[patrik]

Hi everyone!

This is something for all A4000D owners .

I little while ago I was exchanging the CD-ROM drive in my parents computer for a new DVD-ROM drive. I had removed the old CD-ROM drive and put it on the floor. When I took the new DVD-ROM out of its box and saw it at the same time as the old CD-ROM laying on the floor I noticed how short the new DVD-ROM drive was - it almost looked square in comparision to the old CD-ROM drive. I have definately never seen such a short drive before. The first thing that sprung into my mind was how well it would fit in my A4000D. The drive measures up to a length of only 17cm which results in a bit over 4.5cm of clearance between the DVD-ROM and the powersupply in the A4000D. I think everyone who has mounted a DVD-ROM/CD-ROM drive in an A4000D would agree with me if I said that that is pretty kickass :=).

The DVD-ROM drive is a Lite-On XJ-HD166S. I also noticed that their latest CD-ROM drive - the Lite-On LTN-527T has the same short length (17cm).

Have fun!


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Will-i-am:

You will not be able to play DVDs in full speed with any of the accelerators available for the A4000D. But why not buy the CD-ROM drive i linked to, it costs about 15$ instead of the $30 the DVD-ROM drive costs.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Will-i-am:

Maybe I was a bit definite when saying that no accelerator for the A4000D would be fast enough to play a DVD disc. I am positive that the A4000D with a CyberStormPPC and a CyberVisionPPC graphics-card would have a hard time playing a DVD disc in full resolution (PAL - 720x576, NTSC - 720x480) and 24-bit colour. However, it might be possible to play in some lower resolution with a reduced colour-depth.

The best advice I have for you is to just try it out and see if it actually can play a DVD disc. This by either temporarily connecting a DVD-ROM to your A4000 or in some way transfer a small mpeg2-clip with the same resolution, framerate etc as a DVD to your A4000. Karlos suggested using the AMP software for playing DVD discs/mpeg2-files.


@adolescent:

Yeah, all Lite-On DVD-RW and COMBO drives and their newer DVD-ROM, CD-RW and CD-ROM drives features the short 17cm length.


/Patrik