Hey guys, I need some help finding a way to succeed projecting my satellite TV on my pc screen.
I currently have a pc with dual monitors, and a satellite receiver by hdmi output. I wish to connect the both so that I could watch some tv on my computer's screen (just one of them). By the way that screen has vga and dvi inputs.
I have the first option, to buy a converter from hdmi to vga+aux so that I could just plug it to the screen's vga and switch source.
Is it possible to use an HDMI to usb 3.0 converter, so that I could plug the usb into my pc, and in some magical way I could project the satellite receiver onto that one screen?
Is there any software for that? How does that happen exactly?
Any help will be appreciated, thank you in advanced!
Not like that. You need a capture card of some kind. You may also run into HDCP issues.
>>61788996
there are usb 3.0 capture cards
hdcp will be an issue, but most cheap chink splitters strip it
so your chain will be receiver->$10 splitter->usb capture device->pc in the us, in better countries you can get an internal tuner card + get an access card from your satellite company and just plug the coax from your dish directly into your pc.
>>61789160
By splitter you mean the hdmi-to-usb converter?
A usb 3.0 capture card would cost about 70 dollars, I guess it would be cheaper to just use the hdmi to vga + aux?
>>61789306
no, I mean an actual 1-to-2 splitter (second output optional, but hey, you may as well split it so you can watch on your TV too.) A lot of the cheap splitters also remove the encryption as an unadvertised feature.
You could adapt HDMI to VGA and run that, and it may be slightly cheaper, but it will look worse at any cable length and be far more sensitive to interference in longer runs. You'll also lose the ability to view in a window rather than fullscreen on the monitor unless you get a VGA capture card, which would kill your savings, and some HDMI to VGA adapters can't handle encrypted video and would need the splitter anyway.
>"magical way to"
Out, it either makes sense to you or it doesn't, I'm not going to spoonfeed brainlets
>>61790409
Thanks for the help. I think I'm gonna choose the cheaper one.
>>61790444
Welp trips has spoken.