Re: A/V over ethernet?

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Author: Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
CC: Stephen Partington
Subject: Re: A/V over ethernet?
This exists. I have used it before. You looking to send what kind of
signal?1080p or more?

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 6:12 AM David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss <
> wrote:

> I’m shooting in the dark here wondering how to solve this. Looking for
> ideas.
>
> Think about multi-port USB hubs for laptops with only a few USB ports . . .
>
> A guy I’ve been talking with said he's looking for something like that but
> plugs into the ethernet, not USB, and uses PoE for power.
>
> It’s basically a break-out box that uses wired ethernet to send data to
> some remote spots about 100 M away through a 1GB switch.
>
> His requirements include: audio (mic, headphone), USB video in, USB video
> out, some digital I/Os to turn lights on and off, a couple of spare USB
> ports
>
> The video is streaming 4k, probably H.264; he has the camera and a display
> device, and both work via USB. (There’s a reason he has chosen USB!)
>
> I don’t know if there are simple chips in these sorts of USB “splitters”
> or if they have a CPU like what’s in a Raspberry Pi.
>
> Is this something that an R-Pi can be made to support with some HATs?
>
> In my mind, it should be fairly simple. It’s mostly just acting like a
> router, right?
>
> A separate audio stream on the ethernet could go to a USB port with a
> common “USB Sound Card” where the mic and headphone can be connected.
>
> It’s just “audio over ethernet” and “video over ethernet”, no?
>
> What does that take? Is there hardware that already does it?
>
>
> (Dante has a small A/V board to embed in equipment, but you need one on
> each end of a one-way circuit, meaning 4x per connection, and he needs up
> to 8 of these channels.)
>
> -David Schwartz
>
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