Wireless monitors?

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For part of a work thing I need to be able to transmit a monitor signal to an lcd monitor in order to display a video capture app (for streaming video and stills).
I've tested a pc to tv plug and play transmitter, but the picture quality on the lcd is poor at best (due to the wireless transmitter?) and despite having the video app open on my primary display (trusty crt), showing video images, the secondary (cloned display) lcd shows the app but not any of the streaming video that the app is currently running.

Anyone have any suggestions as to where to look next for hardware to transmit wireless to the lcd monitor? Or maybe a lcd display that has wireless built in?

preferably need some ideas before end of friday daytime.

Cheers guys.

I saw a dvi transmitter but it was uber expensive. :(
 
Dedicated wireless monitor can probably be done, but it will come with a really, really scary price tag. In a similar them to the above, http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18002129 is a very small computer. This will screw into the mounts on the back of the monitor, so no extra space occupied. Once you've got one of those, hardware is sorted.

How good are you with software? I can get this working, but it's hackish to say the least. Run linux on the acer aspire. Use freenx to log into your server from there, doesn't matter what os your server is running. You then open the application which shows video, and away you go.
This isn't great in terms of optimising things, but I don't know how to send compressed video feed down a network. Something to do with ssh -c opening a tunnel and sending the video down one end, vlc can probably play a media stream coming through ssh. This would be far better, but I don't know the specifics. Freenx is a solid remote desktop application which runs over compressed ssh, but it'll send more data than you need to down the connection.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys.

A little background for you - the setup is for a dentist consulting room/chair.
Were it up to me, I'd dig up the floor for some hardwired connections from the camera to the pc and back to the monitor which is mounted on the chair (so patient can see). Unfortunately it would cost muchness to dig up the anti-static flooring :(

Currently none of the computers that will be used have a graphics card with svideo out on them (mine does). After tinkering with my gfx settings I managed to clone the display to the lcd (transmitted via the plug & play pc to tv wireless transmitter/receiver setup) and get the streaming/stills from the camera to display on my monitor and the lcd display and save using WINTV2000 (their choice of software, though there are others that are dedicated to the type of camera used) :cool: result.

But (isn't there always?) the resolution of the camera (which cost around 600 quid) is awful; it works ok and the picture could be worse, though not by much. In a flash of inspiration, I plugged the camera directly into the lcd displays' svideo input. WOW, uber resolution and colour contrast with no messing about with a pc and other hardware.

With these findings in mind I have 3 suggestions for the client/guy I'm helping out with the computer stuff:
1) proper wireless dvi connector or monitor is just going to be too expensive.
2) if they really want to capture still and streaming video in poor quality, then they will need a graphics card to achieve this, or they can spend out for a more expensive camera setup which includes a tv card type thing which will capture directly from the camera and they'll just need some svideo extension leads.
3) forget saving the images to the pc altogether and plug the camera direct to the lcd display for the best image resolution. (after all, I get the impression the whole camera in your gob thing is just to show the patient 'look at what work needs to be done, and this is how much it will cost' as opposed to being used to keep image records of the patients teeth)

I like the idea of a mini pc attached to the back of the lcd display - the fixing holes are there - but this is for an nhs dentist and their network is managed by another company who might not be interested in supporting such a setup, besides, I recon they need to keep it as simple as possible due to the number of different dentists who will be using he system; ideally it ought to be idiot proof.

Thanks again chaps ;)
 
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