Attention Tech Heads!

[mattyb]

Hey guys, I recently purchased a 2010 Territory, and it came standard with a roof mount dvd player. Now here's what I want to do, but I have very little cpu knowledge, and even have trouble searching for what I 'think' I need, lol. Please help...

On the back of the roof mount dvd player, there are 3 A/V plugs, red, yellow, and white. I'm wanting to wire into them a portable HDD media player, that can be mounted in the dash (so it has to be roughly single din size) or make a bracket to support it in the glove box, and wire it up so it powers up when the car is turned on, and so that I can remove it to upload onto it at any given time. Does anyone know of any 12v HDD media players that fit my purpose, and if so where from? Maybe someone on this site sells such items, an would like to make a sale

Secondly, the roof mount dvd player is wired somehow to the icc as when I select AUX on the icc the audio from the dvd plays through it. Is there a way I can 'piggy back onto these cables and hook the HDD media player up that way and save myself having to get an auto electrician to run wires through the roof to the back of the dvd player?

Finally failing that anyone on the site sells such items, can people point me in the right direction. I've got a 4000km round trip with the kids coming up in a month and really want to have this sorted for some 'peacefull travelling'.

Cheers.

[freeze_dk]

asl or mrbean know alot in that area im pretty sure

[Wenier]

Not 100% sure on your question with the icc playing the sound. My take on it is if you have your media player hooked up to the dvd thing on your roof it should still play that sound through the ICC when put on aux mode so no extra wiring apart from connecting the media player to the dvd is required.

[foxtrot]

Hi. you could use something like the clarion mechless unit ( http://www.clarion.com/au/en/products/2010/audio/source_unit/bluetooth_usb/FZ709A/au-en-product-pf_1259413421283.html ) in the tissue box as a permanent fitting and use the usb cable to access memory sticks etc and the rear aux in to the roof screen and the line level out to the ford aux in. Or let the kids look out the windows and learn a bit about our great land like me and my siblings did in our childhood. Cheers MD

[timbos99]

I have used something like this with decent result;

ebay linky

So its a "TV Multi Media Player USB HDD/SD/MMC RM RMVB AVI BOX" that supports DC power. Put your stuff on usb or SD card, their really small so doesn't really mater where you put it, mine was in centre consol. Can't give any help with hacking the iic audio, but I ran my white and red plug to 3.5 jack adapter and ran it to the aux input in-front of the shifter.

[Rusty XR6T]

you want something like the above link, throw out the 240VAC plug pack and wire straight into the units 12VDC.

once you run the composite cables (RCAs - Yellow = Vid, White = Left Spk, Red = Right Spk) to your roof mount DVD player it will play both the video and the audio from your new device. so if you set your ICC to AUX it will play sound from whatever the roof mount is playing, in this case your portable device.

Wire the power for the new unit into the ACC so that way it turns on when your accessory circuit has power.

Places like Scorptec etc have HD players like the link above as well - Scorptec