Anyone built a media player with an EPIA (mini-ITX) board?

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Andy

I'm seriously thinking about building a multimedia player from one of the
EPIA boards. However, after scouring the web I am unable to find anyone else
who has done the same thing. Here's what I want to do...

Play regular DVDs from any region and encoding.
Play divx and xvid movies I have downloaded or ripped.
Have easy acess to my music collection using iTunes.
Listen to internet radio, mostly BBC Radio 4 and NPR.

The EPIA boards (the M series) are touted as being ideal for this kind of
task, but was suprised not to find any examples on the web. Is that because the
boards really suck? Or is it because you can't get good software to make it run.
Has anyone here built such a device?

Thanks,

Andy
 
Andy said:
I've seen that site, but all the projects seem to be about putting
the board in a nifty (or not so nifty) box. I didn't see anything
about building a multimedia box, at least nothing substantial.
Click to expand...

An 'HTPC' is a multimedia box.

What exactly do you want to know? Pick a board, pick a box (or build
one like the link I gave you) and assemble the pc. If you want
specifics about software just visit some of the HTPC websites or join
the mailing lists. You can also ask specific questions here. The Epia
is just a PC.
 
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