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[reyn]

I have just come across MP and it looks very interesting but I have a question before I dive in.
I have a spare PC (AMD 3400) which is in an adjacent room to the tv, I can see how I would get the feed to the tv using something like a Hauppage MediaMVR if MP supported it but how do I do it using MP, do I have to have another PC in the tv room and feed that from the MP TVServer. What are the options?
I have no problem drilling a hole through the wall and I would really like to use ethernet if possible.

Very basic question I know.
Thanks
Frank

 

[CHli]

If you want to watch TV in two different rooms then yes you need to have two PCs.

A PC with the TV-Server installed (with a TV-Card, digital or analog) that would also have the TV-Client installed (so you can watch TV on it) => this would be connected to your TV using analog or digital video connection.

Another PC with just the TV-Client installed that would connect to the TV-Server. (you will probably watch TV on your PC monitor on that one)

 

[reyn]

Thanks for the reply, I don't want to watch tv in the MP tvserver room, I only want to watch it on the TV in the adjacent room, I was wondering how to connect the TV to the tvserver through a wall. Do I have to have another PC just to feed the TV in the TV room or do I have to run some sort of cabling from the tvserver PC to the TV and what type of cabling would that be.
Thanks
Frank

 

[rekenaar]

Hi there and welcome

You can connect your TV to your PC graphics via various options like VGA, HDMI, DVI, etc. You will have to check you PC/Graphics card output options in conjunction with you TV input connectors.

So basically, if you want to connect your TV to PC in other room, you have 2 options:
- another PC running the MP client where the PC's video out will connect to the TV video in. This client PC will connect to the TVServer PC via normal network.
- Normal video cable from TV to TVServer through your wall. This will bring additional challenges, to name one, remote receiver (or keyboard/mouse) that must also be routed through the wall.

 

[2BitSculptor]

In my original MP setup, My MP machine was in the basement office and my 4x3 TV was on the other side of the house up one floor. I connected a VGAtoTV converter between the computer and the TV, At the time I used an RF modulator to convert the composite/SVideo conectors of the VGAtoTV box to the coaxial cable connector on the back of the TV and let the coax cable run the distance across the house.

I had a RadioShack IR to RF tranceiver kit to send my Remote control keypresses to the computer room (with the Remote's IR receiver connected to the computer) from the livingroom. If I had an IR keyboard/mouse I could have also used those remotely.

So, in a nutshell.... it can be done.

Chuck

 

[reyn]

That's reasonably clear, I am assuming that the client PC in the TV room could be a low powered (processor and graphics), quiet, headless affair with all the heavy lifting being carried out on the tvserver machine? I would also want to view h286 video on the TV would the same set up apply?
Thanks
Frank

 

[rekenaar]

See the Hardware Requirements in the manual

 

[reyn]

Took me a while but after reading the manual I now see that I would have to have a fully fledged PC running a full copy of MP in the TV room just to feed the TV and another PC to run the tvserver. Time to have a re-think.
Thanks
Frank