Video Senders do that, but they're generally a bit rubbish unless you spend a lot (circa. £200+ for a point-to-point HDMI-equipped HD1080i/p-capable TX/RX pair). Even then, you're at the mercy of the quality of your indoor Wi-Fi coverage because you're trying stream a live uncompressed video stream with no buffering capability at the RX end.
Where you have the video data sitting on a file server somewhere, which could be a home NAS drive, the Cloud, or somewhere else on the interweb, then things become far easier. Letting the RX box buffer and decode means that video on demand (VOD) and wireless connectivity become much simpler.
Hmm yes, But I have a PC in cinema room, living room,(so need for routing that kind of data is limited) but My use case (for example, one of) would be for example the kids are playing in the cinema room on the PC, maybe it's on switch, maybe it's a PC game, maybe PS3 maybe it's youtube, or watching a movie. Point is I would like to be able to just 'tunein' to what they are doing while I work in the living room, or in the kitchen or whatever. (TV in kitchen)
Secondly example use case. Maybe I'm in the cinema room watching some youtube stuff, or suddenly found an 'awesome recipe' online. I want to go to my kitchen and just 'continue' in that room while I put the washing on or make that recipe etc etc Maybe I started in the living room.
With sonos you can do all this with audio.
Coming back to the idea of streaming a raw video feed, a product called Slingbox with take composite video (yellow RCA connection) or Component video* (Y, R-Y, B-Y on green, red and blue RCAs) and compress and stream it as an IP signal to a Slingbox player app or suitable smart TV using your home internet connection to upload the data stream. Folk use this to watch the Sky box in their British home when holidaying abroad. It's not VOD because it's only streaming what is playing now, but there's a parallel with what you're doing with the Line In on the Connect.
Yes i remember hearing about these ages ago -- quite old now? Anything for 1080p hdmi feed ?
Where a house has an existing RF (TV aerial) distribution system, it's possible to take a HDMI feed direct from a splitter or HDMI-equipped source and feed that through a device that converts it to a DVB-T2 (Freeview HD) signal. All TVs in the house connected to the aerial system and that have Freeview HD tuners can then see this signal as a new Freeview HD channel.
Ha yes I know what you mean. Problem there for me is I have no TVs! All my screens are monitors and projector ... i.e. commerical panels, not PC monitors. So no tuners. I would need to get a RF modulator and convert at each end... wow.
Just as a possible alternative to a hardware solution, depending on your actual use case, using Plex as a media server works great for viewing content in multiple rooms simply because it allows you to resume where you left off.
So if I start watching a film in the bedroom on my Nvidia Sheild, then I can go up stairs and just hit resume on my Amazon Fire TV in the bedroom.
Yes this is pretty neat, I played with plex a while a go, but for me I don't really want the admin of running plex and these kind of services. I like to be able to double click my movies and they play fine. I always found with plex that it would pfaff around with box art and get confused if I had multiple versions of the same thing. It's an unnecessary abstraction layer that I have no use or need for. I tend to watch and delete so having a 'big media library' is also not really a benefit to me. I'm really looking for something further up the chain - i.e. a video feed, no matter where it comes from to be routed at a physical kind of layer irrespective of source
So maybe a really nice HDMI matrix box - but then I have to have all my sources (which are split between 2 rooms currently (cinema room / living room) feed them into this, and then feed it all back to each display. My house is networked, if there was some kind of small device (e.g. sonos 1 type thing) I could just put in what ever room and it does the rest (maybe sits in right before the TV input) then could be jamming.
I'm thinking something like a theoretical HDMI capture box (twitch streamers use these right? ) that makes the data available on the network, then another box for each display device (rasppi e.g.) that can read this data and display it on the connected screen. And then a nice app to control ipnut sources and output feeds. If someone hasn't made this yet I think there's a significant gap in the market here.
edit maybe this sort of thing is where I need to be looking
https://www.gefen.com/technology/av-over-ip
