2015-03-21, 20:48
My setup is as follows:
MAIN ROOM:
Acer Aspire Revo r3700 Kodibuntu 14.0
Onkyo TX-NR809
BEDROOM:
Acer Aspire Revo r1600 Kodibuntu 14.0
Onkyo TX-SR601
My goal is to have the main room playing a movie and have the bedroom playing the same movie at the same exact spot. Basically the bedroom XBMC merely mirrors the main room. I've thought of a few ways to do this.
1 - Split the HDMI coming out of the main room and feed it to the bedroom. I'm not sure about the quality on this though or the ability so split HDMI. Every time I look at this solution it seems costly and not the best for the signal strength.
2 - Some sort of network/MySQL solution. Everything I've read here seems to relate to playing a video in one room and then resuming it in another room. It seems to be more about sharing the library than mirroring the source.
3 - Use second room HDMI out from the main room receiver to the bedroom TV. Use optical sound out and the sound from HDMI from the main room XBMC. The main room gets HDMI sound and the bedroom gets optical sound. I've been reading how this might not be possible with pulseaudio though.... Let me break down what is getting what for this last "solution". NOTE - All signals are coming from main room TV and XBMC.
Main room
HDMI from XBMC - Video
HDMI from XBMC - Audio
Bedroom
HDMI from receiver second source - Video
Optical from XBMC - Audio
Thoughts? Better solutions? I've done a good bit of reading but I can't decide on the best solution. It would just be really nice to have both tvs displaying the exact same thing.
MAIN ROOM:
Acer Aspire Revo r3700 Kodibuntu 14.0
Onkyo TX-NR809
BEDROOM:
Acer Aspire Revo r1600 Kodibuntu 14.0
Onkyo TX-SR601
My goal is to have the main room playing a movie and have the bedroom playing the same movie at the same exact spot. Basically the bedroom XBMC merely mirrors the main room. I've thought of a few ways to do this.
1 - Split the HDMI coming out of the main room and feed it to the bedroom. I'm not sure about the quality on this though or the ability so split HDMI. Every time I look at this solution it seems costly and not the best for the signal strength.
2 - Some sort of network/MySQL solution. Everything I've read here seems to relate to playing a video in one room and then resuming it in another room. It seems to be more about sharing the library than mirroring the source.
3 - Use second room HDMI out from the main room receiver to the bedroom TV. Use optical sound out and the sound from HDMI from the main room XBMC. The main room gets HDMI sound and the bedroom gets optical sound. I've been reading how this might not be possible with pulseaudio though.... Let me break down what is getting what for this last "solution". NOTE - All signals are coming from main room TV and XBMC.
Main room
HDMI from XBMC - Video
HDMI from XBMC - Audio
Bedroom
HDMI from receiver second source - Video
Optical from XBMC - Audio
Thoughts? Better solutions? I've done a good bit of reading but I can't decide on the best solution. It would just be really nice to have both tvs displaying the exact same thing.
