FullHD Bandwidth and Wireless capabilities?

[therock003]

I just saw a product that i am interested in purchasing that consists of a usb wireless transmitter that uses a usb2 port and a receiver that receives signal and outputs it via hdmi/dvi.

Is usb2 enough in order to fully carry hdmi signal without losses? USB 2.0 supposedly does 480mbps, although in practice its always significantly less than that. But compared to video files, that use an average of 10-50mbps per file shouldn't it be more than enough?

The reason i'm looking into this, is first because i leave out all this cable mess, making the signal transfer wireless but last and foremost, cause i own an old laptop, that can play fullhd files but only has analog VGA output, and my TV has to convert Analog-to-Digital thus resulting in lossy conversions...

[jagabo]

USB 2 is sufficient for full Blu-ray rips. Real world throughput is roughly half the raw 480 Mb/s rate. That's still far above the max for Blu-ray. The problem is the wireless portion. Wireless is marginal for full Blu-ray rips. Unless you have very good signal quality, and the player uses sufficient buffering, you may have problems.

I'm assuming here that the transmitter is receiving the compressed A/V stream from the computer/drive via USB, transmitting it wirelessly to the reciever, then the receiver is doing the decoding and putting out HDMI. If that's not how it works you'll need to supply more information.

[therock003]

I'm not really sure of the "what" and "how", but here is the one with the dvi and the one with the hdmi. Can you make something of them?

http://www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/pc/accessories/connectivity/wireless-usb...y-adapter.html

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1047/1/

[jagabo]

The device in the legitreveiws article is a graphics card. It connects to the computer via a USB port instead of a PCIe slot. Those usually don't work well for 1080p video. The fujitsu device appears to be similar. I don't think either will work for straight Blu-ray rips.

[edDV]

What is missing from these type devices is GPU decode acceleration for h.264 or GPU game acceleration. They are intended more for low dynamic computer display. Read the reviews carefully.

[therock003]

Damn. It sounded too good to be true. Are there any alternatives that can use a usb2 port and output into the TVs HDMI for movie purposes? I dont mind even if there's a wired solution. I once saw a gadget featured on a tech magazine, but it used a usb3 port and turned it into wired hdmi.

[jagabo]

Just get a media player like the WDTV Live. You can stream from the computer to the WDTV Live via wireless or wired ethernet. Full 54 Mb/s Blu-ray rips might still be a problem though. The WDTV Live can play Blu-ray rips off a local USB hard drive without any problems.

[therock003]

I find that standalone media players are limited to functions and features. I even own a WDTV live but i am not really using it so much. I find Software players from PC to be the the best in handling media files.

I do own a newer laptop with hdmi, but it uses quadcore cpu and it makes loud fanning noises plus it consumes greater power, so i only use it when necessary that's why its eating me to find use for this older laptop in media playback.

[yoda313]

I hate to say it but it almost sounds like you want the impossible therock003. If you don't like the features and abilities of the wdtv live you are almost exclusively left in the htpc domain.

However as far as your thread title about wireless video and that have you looked into the slingbox products? They are supposed to do this stuff using an internet connection. I really don't know enough about them but you could look into it.

One other thing you could consider is building a smaller form factor htpc that would handle high def media but be quiter than the your noisy laptop.

[jagabo]

I hate to say it but it almost sounds like you want the impossible therock003. If you don't like the features and abilities of the wdtv live you are almost exclusively left in the htpc domain.

And a wireless HDMI adapter.
http://www.amazon.com/brite-View-BV-2322-Uncompressed-Wireless-Transmission/dp/B0043BP...8995420&sr=8-4

[edDV]

I do own a newer laptop with hdmi, but it uses quadcore cpu and it makes loud fanning noises plus it consumes greater power, so i only use it when necessary that's why its eating me to find use for this older laptop in media playback.

The older laptop lacks the the CPU or GPU decode grunt needed for h.264 HD playback. It should work for SD DVD or SD ATSC m2t.

Oops, you are in Greece, so forget MPeg2 ATSC. Greece DTV uses DVB-T Mpeg4 which might be possible to decode with your old laptop but I doubt it. Think in terms of SD MPeg2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_Greece