<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Thank-you Roger for reminding me of the bandwidth ..</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>I'll bear in mind Raspberry Pi .. </span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Roger Gammans <rgammans@gammascience.co.uk><br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Paul Lawrence <paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com>; Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent@mailman.lug.org.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 18 January 2015, 13:58<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Klug-general] HDMI over wifi ... ?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 12:22 +0000, Paul Lawrence wrote:<br><br>> 2. If we cannot repair/re-run the Cat5 .. is there a (cheap) way of<br>> sending HDMI over wifi?<br><br>No. Not really. (unfortunately)<br><br>The full bandwidth of HDMI (HDMI 1.3 can send up to 10.2Gbit/s although<br>1080p is only around 4Gbs.) is higher than even wired ethernet. I've<br>been thinking of doing something like myself , but it would probably<br>require a clever FPGA, (getting a UDP/IP stack and compression inside an<br>FPGA is I think doable) But that isn't
remotely cheap - and I haven’t<br>seen anything on the market similar to it.<br><br>I think your best bet is sending the video stream while it is still in<br>it compressed container and using a cheap computer - say a Raspberry Pi<br>+ codecs to decompress at each (if there is more than one) display.<br>Small form factor computer which can sit neatly behind the TV display<br>are really good here. There are even full PCs small enough for this.<br><br>-- <br>Roger Gammans <<a ymailto="mailto:rgammans@gammascience.co.uk" href="mailto:rgammans@gammascience.co.uk">rgammans@gammascience.co.uk</a>><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>