Distributing MCE around House over Cat5e

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  • trevorjdaniel
    Automated Home Jr Member
    • Jan 2005
    • 39

    Distributing MCE around House over Cat5e

    Hi,

    I am looking for a solution to enable me to share a Windows Media Centre PC around a house over Cat5e.

    The scenario is...

    The client has a central Media Centre in his study. Around his house, he has a number of Plasmas and he wants to be able to access the Media Centre on all these screens.

    The Media Centre has DVI & VGA out as well as audio out. The Media Centre is controlled either by a IR hand controller or an IR based combined keyboard/mouse.

    So, my question is, can the Kat5 system be used to share this Media Centre around the house to multiple locations?

    Can it cope with the IR that is sent by the Media Centre remote control?

    Can this all be fed over Cat5e and converted back to the correct connection that a plasma would need?

    Many thanks

    Trevor
  • katman
    Moderator
    • Jan 2004
    • 247

    #2
    Re: Distributing MCE around House over Cat5e

    Hi Trevor,

    I dont have an MCE machine so cant personally vouch for the IR but I think some other KAT5 users are using it successfully.

    I dont have a DVI or VGA product though so you would need to fit a video card that gave an S-Video output if you wanted to use KAT5

    Regards

    Keith
    KAT5.tv - affordable high quality AV Distribution
    http://www.kat5.tv

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    • trevorjdaniel
      Automated Home Jr Member
      • Jan 2005
      • 39

      #3
      Re: Distributing MCE around House over Cat5e

      Hi Keith,

      Thanks for the reply.

      I'm not really an IR expert. But is there any further information that I can find out that would help decide if the IR will or won't work?

      Thanks

      Trevor

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