MP in my bedroom (1 Viewer)

[hilfer]

Hi all:

I have my MP installed on the living room.
Is there an easy way to "clone" mp so that I can acess all media in my bedroom TV ??

 

[robbo100]

What do you mean by "clone"?

You can achieve this using two methods.

1. Using the second monitor output from your Lounge PC and running USB and video cables to your second viewing location, or

2. Using a second PC in the second viewing location in client mode.

The advice given will be very different depending upon which route you choose.

Rob

 

[hilfer]

Ok thank you very much for your reply.

will study the best option for me.

 

[kevinfreels]

I have two PCs in two bedrooms that read from and write to a share drive over a wired gigabit network and one kid has a laptop with media portal accessing the same share drive over the wifi (N).
My family room PC is also the "server" and plays media portal on the TV in there. But I have that signal dual output to a SVideo out that goes into an RF modulator that converts it to Coax (I split the audio as well for this). That feeds back to a splitter in the closet and runs to my bedroom and the kitchen. So all three show the same thing simultaneously. I have an RF trackball remote in each room and a USB repeater cable for the receiver ran in the attic that stops over each room. So I can control it from any one of those rooms with the remotes just as if I have a PC in the room.

 

[hilfer]

Hi Kevinffreels:

This sounds interesting and I think is what I need.
Will come back to you if I have any doubts on how to set a simillar system.Can I ??

 

[kevinfreels]

Hi Kevinffreels:

This sounds interesting and I think is what I need.
Will come back to you if I have any doubts on how to set a simillar system.Can I ??

sure. i'll help with what I can. You're going to need a few things.
A video card with a dual output and an S video out or composite video (yellow RCA video). I would give you a link but it will depend on your PC since your motherboard may have one of several different typed of graphics card slots. There aren't many that still support S-Video since it is an older standard. Also check to make sure the video card supports dual output. I bought one once and found out after installing that despite having three different outputs, it would only use one at a time!
One of these: http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Speake...7RC4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1332940945&sr=8-2

This: http://www.amazon.com/Philips-SWS21...5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1332942287&sr=1-5

And this http://www.amazon.com/S-Video-3-5mm...?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1332941930&sr=1-19
(Note: This is for a video card with an S video out. If you get one with composite out, (yellow video RCA you will need a composite cable or an adapter to convert composite to S-video)

The audio splitter will go in the PC and give you two jacks - one for the local PC or TV setup and the other will have the 3.5mm to RCA cable splitter (with the red and white ends) plug into the RF modulator.
The S-video plug goes into the S-video port on the video card and the yellow video cable goes into the RF modulator. All straightforward.

Then you run your coax from the RF modulator to the other TV or to a splitter to several TVs.

Assuming you installed the video card and drivers, the drivers should give you the option to "clone" or "duplicate" the main display to the other display or to "extend" the main display to the other. You want the clone or duplicate option. (or any other word along those lines). Extend is for multi-monitor environments where you want to put different information on two screens so don't choose that.

For the remote, go to amazon and search for "RF trackball remote". Just about anything you see will work.
But the range is only good for so far. Once you get out of range you can extend it with one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Active-Extens...1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1332941448&sr=1-1
I just ran it up into the attic with my coax and plugged the receiver end into the cable and hung it from a nail on a rafter over the room I wanted to use the remote from. Works very well since the real distance the signal needs to travel is only about 8 feet. Don't forget to take the actual remote in the attic with you to sync them once you plug it in.

 

[hilfer]

Tks Kevinfreels:

all this information will be very helpfull.
I have to see now with my son ( he's the expert) if we can settle same system (I think it won't be possible as my video card has no dual output).

Once again thank you very much for your support.