Est. XPe image size

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I want to convert a custom picture frame I built out of
an old laptop to run on compact flash. It currently runs
on a noisy 6GB hard drive.

EPe seems the obvious choice.

Laptop is a dell CPI P2 266 with 128mb ram USB 1,0 port 2
pcmcia ports.

I'm wondering what the image size would be with the
following components?

SAPI 5.1 (pretty big msi)
Drivers for PCMCIA 802.11 card
real player activeX
media player activeX
XML 3.0 for XMLHTTP access
Term Server components.


Thanks
 
Do you know whether XPe offers a free license for non-commercial use like
WindowsCE 4.2?

I'm assuming your custom picture frame is just for home use and you're not
talking about creating a commercial version.

For something like a picture frame have you thought of using Windows CE 4.2
instead, assuming you can get drivers for your basic hardware it would
generate much smaller images. Only thing that you would probably find
missing is support for RealPlayer.
 
I assumed SAPI speech recognition is not available for
CE. That is why I chose XPe. No keyboard requirements
when the app can be controlled via voice. I would really
like to keep this feature.
 
SAPI 5 is available in Windows CE, see the following from the help:

"The Speech API feature for Microsoft® Windows® CE .NET is a subset of the
Microsoft Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI) version 5.0."

Not sure off-hand what the subset is, but it definitely includes a speech
recognizer as an option.
 
Cool,

Seems CE has what I need except real player.

This is the wrong newsgroup but is installing CE on a
flash drive to run on a laptop a difficult task?
(compared to XPe)
 
You may go to www.helixcommunity.org to get RealOne player (Helix DNA
Client) ported to CE (arm, x86) including the ActiveX control.

KM

Cool,

Seems CE has what I need except real player.

This is the wrong newsgroup but is installing CE on a
flash drive to run on a laptop a difficult task?
(compared to XPe)
 
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