I'm new to this forum just bought my first rx8 yay! I was just wondering if anyone knew how to mod the DVD player so it plays movies?

 

you cant.

 

Yes you can. You need to hack it.

I don't know how but I know who can do it.
However, most of them are across the world.

Japan.
Singapore.
and my friend in Bangkok, THAILAND.

 

well there could be some money in it for your friend in thailand if he can figure it out for the rest of us

 

Pics with how-to on what he really did, or it didn't happen.

I've seen people pull the nav display out and put a touchscreen in, allowing them to control a car computer and play DVD's from it.

I've seen people use an external box that splices into the nav screen wiring and allows you to push a different source to it (such as a DVD player or backup cam)

Never seen anyone make the OEM nav drive do anything but read map disks.

The problem is that DVD-RAM drive in the OEM nav unit itself does not play DVD movies. Nor is there any way to enable it to play DVD movies, seeing as the hardware itself lacks the various CSS and MPEG2 decoders needed to play them.

Your friend in Thailand isn't hacking the OEM DVD drive. I don't doubt he can get DVD video on the nav screen from an external source, but I will not believe he can hack the OEM drive to play DVD movies until I've seen exactly how it was done, not just a pic of a DVD playing on the OEM nav screen.

 

I would like to see that too.

 

+1

 

what other people have done was replace the stock dvd rom player with a regular dvd player.

 

The easiest route is probably an external dvd unit and a switch to switch between factory nav and dvd player.

 

There are even a couple of boxes that will do this for you off the shelf. One does OEM nav and a second video source, the other lets you choose between something like 4 sources, and includes audio hookups along with the video lines.

They cost a fair bit of money though.

 

Not a carputer.
Pix from the my friend's car.
Turn out that he did not do it, but he knew a technician who can do it.

Technician works at Rocket Sound.
http://www.rocketsound.co.th/
(sorry, it's all in Thai)



Latest new is that he able to swap Garmin NAV in to Mazda NAV and make it usable in Thailand. (Mazda does not have any map for Thailand)


09 RX-8
Same hack can be apply with pre-09 model.

 

so your saying that they installed the garmin software onto the mazda dvd rom drive or.... and are the stocks controls still usable

 

^
I'll ask.

 

LOL that is clearly not the factory nav, seeing as it is in place of the stock stereo. That's the corksport or metra kit with an all-in-one headunit. The factory nav is screen is on the dash piece above the middle a/c vents and red screen. The navigation unit (where the disk goes in) is in the center console in the rear, below the pass-through to the trunk.

As most other people have said, no way to do it without adding a separate dvd player and getting a unit to add an input to the screen. At that point, you may as well just do a car computer- can be just as cheap and has a ton more features.

 

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Dude, that is an 09.

 

I want more info on this...

 

I have not played with an 09, but looking on Mazda's website that does appear to be the 09 stock HU with navi, and it does appear to be playing a DVD.

No way you can possibly do that on an 04 to 08 AFAIK. If he's got a firmware flash or something. I will be willing to commit despicable acts to attain it.

 

http://navtv.com/vehicle_products.php

$349 in US.

My brother has this in his TL. Works great on stock Navi.

u will also need a small dvd player.