[Klug-general] HDMI over wifi ... ?

[Colin McCarthy]

We use these at work to send HDMI from meeting room desk to TV.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009DHPUDI/ref=pe_385040_30332190_TE_M3T1_ST1_dp_1

Not sure what distance it will actually send, but works in our rooms and
best $200 we've spent. YMMV

Colin

Sent from my Android phone, please ignore any tiping mistooks
On 18 Jan 2015 08:58, "Roger Gammans" <rgammans at gammascience.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 12:22 +0000, Paul Lawrence wrote:
>
> > 2. If we cannot repair/re-run the Cat5 .. is there a (cheap) way of
> > sending HDMI over wifi?
>
> No. Not really. (unfortunately)
>
> The full bandwidth of HDMI  (HDMI 1.3 can send up to 10.2Gbit/s although
> 1080p is only around 4Gbs.) is higher than even wired ethernet. I've
> been thinking of doing something like myself , but it would probably
> require a clever FPGA, (getting a UDP/IP stack and compression inside an
> FPGA is I think doable) But that isn't remotely cheap - and I haven’t
> seen anything on the market similar to it.
>
> I think your best bet is sending the video stream while it is still in
> it compressed container and using a cheap computer - say a Raspberry Pi
> + codecs to decompress at each (if there is more than one) display.
> Small form factor computer which can sit neatly behind the TV display
> are really good here. There are even full PCs small enough for this.
>
> --
> Roger Gammans <rgammans at gammascience.co.uk>
>
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