Interesting hardware for 'Video Input'

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#1

Blackbird H.265 HDMI over IP Kit
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=39686

This begs to be incorporated into Channels (or Plex).

#2

Looks like that is a HDMI extender that uses real time H265 encoding to send over ethernet cables.

#3

Exactly, so something like Channels could handle the stream

#4

It would be cool to take this device and an IR blaster and create an HDHR tuner emulator. It would sit between a cable or satellite receiver and the Channels DVR. Not sure if HDCP would get in the way, though.

#5

Folks have been using similar tuners with some other DVR software for a while. I believe the following issues surfaced:

  • The units that have a head end and a client end didn't always negotiate as clean as expected when the head end was used alone. Folks typically ended up purchasing a single device "network video encoder" from Aliexpress (China) that worked pretty well. They can be found on Amazon at this point.

  • No HDCP issues

  • Stereo audio only which was disappointing for a smaller percentage of the users

  • A savy developer in the community wrote the network interface to get the 'tuner' into the DVR software