Anyone experienced with AV systems?

[ballibeg]

Wouldn't you know it the missus wants to use the shed I'm finishing for her triathlon bike turbo training. She wants a hd projector onto a screen. I've a network cable in the shed and do most of our films off a NAS running plex.

 

I'm tempted to dive in a Samsung smart Blu-ray player, sound bar and woofer. I can install plex on the Blu-ray, use iPlayer etc.

 

Have I missed an easier solution?

 

I was going to be roofing shed today but it's blowing!

 

Dave

[D A Tree Surgeons]

Wouldn't you know it the missus wants to use the shed I'm finishing for her triathlon bike turbo training. She wants a hd projector onto a screen. I've a network cable in the shed and do most of our films off a NAS running plex.

 

I'm tempted to dive in a Samsung smart Blu-ray player, sound bar and woofer. I can install plex on the Blu-ray, use iPlayer etc.

 

Have I missed an easier solution?

 

I was going to be roofing shed today but it's blowing!

 

Dave

Hi Dave

What Turbo and set up are you using

[NFG]

Hi,

 

A little more detail would help, I assume you will want to connect the Blu ray player to your network, if so Plex should find it & stream any content.

 

I suspect the next question could be: will the Blu ray stream saturate my network? The max bitrate for video/audio is 48Mbps or 6MBs (thats Mega bits & Mega Bytes) although 36Mbps is considered sufficient for HDTV.

 

If I recall cat 5 cable rated 100MHz will transfer at about 12MBs & CAT6 at 1Ghz will do over 100MBs maybe upto 120MBs - wiki it, assuming a perfect network & a good switch.

 

Therefore cat 6 cable may be necessary or you may be OK with N speed wireless.

 

Anyway hope this helps, my son streams from his QNAP over Gigabit ethernet so I know that works!

 

 

N

[NFG]

Whilst Im thinking of this...

 

What you could do is download a BluRay coded sample file from t'internet & try streaming from your NAS box, that should give you a some idea of how your net performs, ie: Planet earth bird scenes at 1080p or similar.

 

Also Im not sure if you have it but the iSkysoft media converter is a nice bit of software & reasonable to.

 

Bon chance

 

N

Edited November 1, 2013 by NFG

[ballibeg]

Not sure the brand of turbo but it's fluid filled and not connected to a pc. She gets her data via a Garmin speed/cadence sensor.

 

Dave

[ballibeg]

Thanks N,

 

Very helpful. I ran an armoured cat5e out and it's a gigabit network so sounds doable!

 

Will try streaming large fire when set up before buying player.

 

Thanks,

 

Dave

[NFG]

Thanks N,

 

Very helpful. I ran an armoured cat5e out and it's a gigabit network so sounds doable!

 

Will try streaming large fire when set up before buying player.

 

Thanks,

 

Dave

 

Hi,

 

Cat 5e switches at 100MHz but you will get improved data transmission speeds, I think it will be fine.

 

Incidentally, which network switch are you using?

 

Good luck with tests!

 

N

Edited November 1, 2013 by NFG

[ballibeg]

I'm using TP link unmanaged switches. Think I'll shove another in the shed to run a couple of IP cameras to.

 

Weather terrible so roof running late! !

 

Ta,

 

Dave

[NFG]

Im running TP link unmanaged switches.

 

Hi OK,

 

Im not familiar with that one but Googled & looks fine, the reason I asked is that sometimes people use a four port router such as a Netgear DG834 which is a very good router but only runs at 10/100 so adding in something like a Netgear GS108 Gigabyte switch (with the router connected to one of its ports) ensures the rest of their network & connected devices all run at Gigabyte speeds.

 

Plenty of bandwidth for network cameras as well.

 

TBH I think this is all going to work fine & if its any consolation its a terrible night here, no sitting outside in the setting sun with a vin rouge or G&T!

 

N