Posted October 22, 2022 I work for a church, and I have been asked to see if there are any possible options that could be used to stream video output from a single computer to multiple destinations, with each destination being its own separate audio and video output not affected by the rest. Each destination will be in a different classroom, so not necessarily visible to the person running it. Essentially, we would like to be able to plug in a computer in a single location and not have to move that computer around to play videos in various classrooms. Anybody got any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 22, 2022 What's your budget? A KVM solution with a console in each classroom would probably be easiest, but for the price you might as well just get some off-lease corporate desktops and put one in each room. (Make a network share on a central "server" PC or basic NAS appliance if your building's networked and you don't want to manually keep the media files updated on multiple desktops.) I sold my soul for ProSupport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 22, 2022 Author 5 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said: What's your budget? A KVM solution with a console in each classroom would probably be easiest, but for the price you might as well just get some off-lease corporate desktops and put one in each room. (Make a network share on a central "server" PC or basic NAS appliance if your building's networked and you don't want to manually keep the media files updated on multiple desktops.) I have been trying to get them to set up and use a NAS for months, but they don't want to go through the effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 22, 2022 If the videos are pre-recorded, then we're talking about a simple network share. You could just have the videos shared and each computer could just access the desired video through the network. You could literally get a $100 refurbished computer from Newegg or whatever and set it up to hold the videos (but ideally you'd want to at least put a SSD inside it) There's even free solutions for upnp/dlna servers which would make it possible to play videos from a server to TVs connected to ethernet - for example see UniversalMediaServer ( https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer/UniversalMediaServer/releases ) , serviio and/or others : https://medevel.com/19-os-upnp-media-servers/ If you mean having some video recorded live in the room with the computer and then have it live streamed to rooms in the building, then there's streaming servers available, for free or for some money (helix media server, others) and then you can use OBS to prepare the stream and "upload" the stream to your "server" which can then distribute it over the network to various rooms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 22, 2022 Author 3 minutes ago, mariushm said: If the videos are pre-recorded, then we're talking about a simple network share. You could just have the videos shared and each computer could just access the desired video through the network. You could literally get a $100 refurbished computer from Newegg or whatever and set it up to hold the videos (but ideally you'd want to at least put a SSD inside it) There's even free solutions for upnp/dlna servers which would make it possible to play videos from a server to TVs connected to ethernet - for example see UniversalMediaServer ( https://github.com/UniversalMediaServer/UniversalMediaServer/releases ) , serviio and/or others : https://medevel.com/19-os-upnp-media-servers/ If you mean having some video recorded live in the room with the computer and then have it live streamed to rooms in the building, then there's streaming servers available, for free or for some money (helix media server, others) and then you can use OBS to prepare the stream and "upload" the stream to your "server" which can then distribute it over the network to various rooms. the video files would be on the computer of whoever is in charge that day, and it would be coming from a mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 25, 2022 We have used these at my work with good results assuming you are just more or less trying to share the screen. https://www.amazon.com/Extender-Splitter-Multiple-Single-Management/dp/B07NQMYQ92/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2G572A75S5WK0&keywords=ethernet+to+hdmi+video+distribution&qid=1666703697&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjAyIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=ethernet+to+hdmi+video+distrobution%2Caps%2C124&sr=8-6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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