Low cost solution for remote display of presentations and video on plasma

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yasha_somov2011-12-03 19:02:42

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yasha_somov, 2011-12-03 19:02:42

The question is. There is plasma. Hanging in a very awkward place. It is required to display videos and a presentation on plasma (to be used as an information stand) using different computers.

A working option is to attach a compact computer to it and control the content output via a network or Wi-Fi. A computer with the ability to output fullhd, hdmi connector and quiet costs about 13-15 tr.

I want to cut the cost. While we are considering netbooks and the rejection of hdmi.

Maybe there is some more elegant and cheaper solution? Fancy media players, etc.? Tell me please.

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Michael, 2011-12-03
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habrahabr.ru/blogs/wireless/105614/

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ertaquo, 2011-12-03
@ertaquo

Raspberry Pi will be released soon, it will support HDMI and HD video playback.
In Yandex.Market you can find cheap motherboards that have HDMI. Together with the processor (if you also choose a cheap one), the cost should be in the range of 3-4 thousand rubles. Or take something ready-made, such as ZOTAC IONITX-BE or ZOTAC NM10-FE (with Wi-Fi). If you make a download from a terminal server or just from a USB flash drive, then it will work more or less. If you use Windows and it slows down, you can try to output video from the same debian with mplayer via framebuffer (a lot of restrictions, but it will work faster in different ways).
You can also just run cables (VGA or S-Video, plus sound) from some computer to a plasma and run video there as if on a second monitor.

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Wott, 2011-12-04
@Wott

put STB on the plasma, plug it into the network, set it to multicast.
Run vlc on computers and broadcast videos to this very multixt.
I don’t know what to do with presentations - I didn’t dig.
STB with HD should cost in the region of <$200
, the network should be wired, WiFi usually dies from multicast - in this case, you can look towards VLC as a VOD “server”, but there you have to conjure with prescribing the address of the computer from which the broadcast is being broadcast.

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rPman, 2011-12-03
@rPman

Do you need video playback?
Chinese mega-super phone + TV? for 3t.r ... the assembly is not critical for you, attach it to the monitor and forget (there remains a management problem, since the phone may not be caught with android)

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Vitaly Zheltyakov, 2011-12-03
@VitaZheltyakov

It may not work for you, but I will share my experience.
At a previous job, high-ranking authorities "gave" a large plasma to the branch and ordered it to be hung in a very inconvenient place - on the wall 3 meters from the floor (so that everyone could see it).
It took 1.5 months to find a solution. Videos were tested over a long cable, a laptop ... Either the signal disappeared, then the player closed, they turned it wrong ... and the authorities, seeing the non-working plasma, “hysteria”.
As a result, they ended up sticking a cheap DVD player with adhesive tape (!) and inserting a disk with a dozen commercials about the company. Every morning the supply manager turned it on, and turned it off in the evening.