So, i'm looking for a standalone HD placeshifter that I can stream video from. I've only been able to find Slingbox and HAVA/Vulkano products in the little bit i've been searching.

Does anyone know of any similar products I should look into? Experiences?

1/23/2012 12:40:26 PM

over the open internet or do you have a controlled environment (like locations connected via VPN or hard wires?)

will you need more than just a single input?

how many concurrent viewers?



For a more commercial solution check out the epiphan VGA2Ethernet. When our church changes facilities I'm probably going to switch over and try it out so I can route everything over the IP network instead of running 2 dummy cat6 cables everywhere I want a TV or projector.

1/23/2012 2:42:39 PM

Some premade NAS boxes can provide streaming transcoding abilities. You can use a linux or BSD box from a PC for a similar purpose. FreeNAS does this and pretty powerful for being opensourced. You can stream video over the net once you use an dns forwarder like dyndns.org or no-ip.com with your NAS setup.

But if its more than one viewer and larger requirements than just personal, ^.

1/23/2012 2:46:35 PM

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"over the open internet or do you have a controlled environment (like locations connected via VPN or hard wires?)"

open internet - password protected if possible though

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"will you need more than just a single input?"

nope, just need a single HDMI in from my STB

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"how many concurrent viewers?"

probably just me

Ideally, if it could have some sort of web API and an IR blaster so i can control the STB from a remote location, that'd be great (otherwise i have to do some google tv remote/vpn nonsense)

i don't want to have to set up a transcoder on a PC, get a video capture card, blahblahblah

wondering if that's doable for cheaper than a slingbox

1/23/2012 3:49:28 PM

oh, you are using an outside source to rebroadcast? thought you were thinking of HD files saved on a pc. Yeah, slingbox is probably the cheapest solution, works pretty good. I still have my old rca one that I got on woot.com years ago. Pretty dated now. Might grab a new hdmi one so I can plant one at my parents place since I really don't feel like paying for cable tv atm.

1/23/2012 3:57:26 PM

what you want is a slingbox. the android client and bandwidth negotiation is worth it assuming you want this for anything beyond LAN

1/23/2012 5:22:23 PM

dang, was hoping there were cheaper alternatives somewhere

1/24/2012 8:38:59 AM