yesterday, I ended up going to the the rat shack to buy some more audio cords. The all-in-wonder can export tv signals from pc fine, but I was having lots of troubles converting the audio in such a way that it could get in to the vcr to export to the other vcr to get to the living room... so I went and just bought a bunch of audio extension cords from the rat shack, and stuck them in the soundblaster audigy's line in... so now the pc can export to the tv in living room as a second monitor with pics via coax and the soundblaster brings in the sound... so not only can we get all the fta stuff, we also can get internet radio and tv sent through the whole house since the pcs are upstairs, the living room is on main floor, and there's another tv and speakers I got run from there to the basement.
I used lots of electric tape to waterproof where the speaker extension cords connect - only two places of which are outside (using 20 foot long cords), so hopefully it'll be ok. The audio cords are following the same path the coax is, which goes outside a vent in the attic, along the underside of an overhanging gutter, and then along the roof til it gets near the chimney and down, so it doesn't look too shaby.
Now, I just gotta wait on those darn channel 4 combiners to get it so that the signal going in to the antenna in on the fta receiver pulls in both the signal coming from the antenna and the pc.
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edit: Just had to come back and say, after experiencing this for a while - I absolutlely love being able to send internet tv, internet radio, and basically anything that the computer sees throughout the house! It's totally freaking awesome. No reception for radio in the tv - who freakin cares! Ya still got thousands of online tv and radio stations! I wouldn't have had the power to do this all before I got in to fta... it's you guys here at satelliteguys.us that got me to get that creative audigy soundblaster external usb thing. That thing is amazin and anyone and everyone ought to get one! Total coolness.... Also totally cool being able to see tv on the pc and control a tv channel from here more or less!
Got to think ati all-in-wonder for that. Ati's quality is better than nvidia, but still a bit of a pain to get the drivers fixed up. Spent a good half a day trying to get it up and going since there were some problems with conflicts in old drivers, but now all is swell, and awesome. Want to see a weird pic - see attachment. Pretty weird how you see so many screens inside of screens, but it's all pretty cool once you see what actually is going on:
The pc is looking at the vcr, which is looking at another vcr, which is looking at the pc... so it's sort of like when you look in a mirror and there's a mirror behind you. You almost see in to infinity, but not quite... sort of a really bizzare infinity loop that I've created, but one that's needed to get the tv out from the computer's ati all-in-wonder to go to the fta receiver, and then loop back to the computer through some ingenious loopbacks. Only thing that'll suck, is there might be a delay due to the way it's wired, so I'm afraid the sound coming through audio cords may be faster than the video if I send movies to the tv in living room from pc, but it'll be a small gap, so hopefully won't be noticible... and it'll be constant, so sort of like watching a dubbed foriegn movies where lips are out of sync, but not by much...
When I first turn to that channel, which is coming outta the vcr to the pc, you see one screen, then another comes in behind/inside of it, and on and on... pretty weird, yet cool. I only see that weirdness when I turn on the tv viewer in the ati media interface thingy, and tune in to the tv on that one channel that's got the pc on which is looking at the ati tv on that channel which which is looking at the ati tv on that channel which which is looking at the ati tv on that channel which which is looking at the ati tv on that channel which...etc.
Most other times, you only see the one pc monitor screen on the tv... so going in to windows media or whatever player I choose for whatever, and entering full screen is like watching normal tv only, it's coming over the internet. Lots more channels doing iptv... and more are coming every day... so I'm loving this way of doing things...
