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laijames92  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, December 15, 2015 7:15:47 AM(UTC)
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Hello,

Is it possible to connect 4 cameras to an ethernet hub (via HDMI-Cat 5E/6 extender), and output it (via an ethernet cable) to Vmix? Will Vmix be able to detect all the 4 cameras individually like that?
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#2 Posted : Tuesday, December 15, 2015 7:50:26 AM(UTC)
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If you think about UTP-extenders as HDMI->transiever->UTP->reciever->HDMI - you need capture card in vMix PC with 4 HDMI inputs. AND this metod not use Ethernet technology, only twisted pairs as phisical media.
If you think about sending video over Ethernet - check MPEG4/H264 encoders with RTSP capability - vMix can use this streams as inputs.
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#3 Posted : Wednesday, December 16, 2015 6:18:20 AM(UTC)
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homeless wrote:
If you think about UTP-extenders as HDMI->transiever->UTP->reciever->HDMI - you need capture card in vMix PC with 4 HDMI inputs. AND this metod not use Ethernet technology, only twisted pairs as phisical media.
If you think about sending video over Ethernet - check MPEG4/H264 encoders with RTSP capability - vMix can use this streams as inputs.


Thank you for your response. I understand how the capture card works.

I was thinking whether it is possible to use an ethernet hub as the 'capture card' instead.

For example, I plan to output 4 video cameras via ethernet cable to an ethernet hub, from the ethernet hub, the 4 video cameras output signal is then routed to my vMix PC. Is this possible?

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#4 Posted : Wednesday, December 16, 2015 8:38:31 AM(UTC)
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Your video cameras - IP ???
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#5 Posted : Wednesday, December 16, 2015 1:58:01 PM(UTC)
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Your video cameras - IP ???


Nop. The video cameras have HDMI output. I plan to convert these HDMI to Cat-5e/6 so that it can be connected to the ethernet hub.
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#6 Posted : Wednesday, December 16, 2015 4:59:47 PM(UTC)
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No. HDMI extenders may use Cat5/6/x as their means of connectivity, but they don't create an IP network. You can't put them into a switch and expect anything to happen.

Each HDMI extender is a transmitter/receiver pair, that needs a dedicated Ethernet cable between the transmitter and the receiver.

You could use an encoder at each camera, putting the resulting IP video streams on a network. vMix could access those video streams. The quality of the video would be defined by the sophistication (cost) of the encoder.

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