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I'm a bit of a networking beginner and I'm looking to send video over my network. I was thinking something like below;

Camera -> hdmi/cat5 converter -> cat5 -> network -> cat5 -> hdmi/cat5 converter -> computer/capture card.

I had searched for around 2 hours earlier to find any solutions. I'm not sure if I'm not searching for the right terminology.

As for my question is there any way to direct traffic through a network that didn't originate from an ip address? i.e. can I assign an ip to a physical port on my router or something? Maybe my issue is having that idea stuck in my head, in which case are there any solutions you would recommend?

P.S. I know there are expensive hdmi to ip converters but I've got these hdmi to ethernet converters from a previous project and would like to use them.

Thanks

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  • By the way, HDMI is very much designed to drive displays, rather than acting as a PC input from a camera. If you have a camera with an HDMI output, it's probably so you can display what you just shot on your display. It should have some other interface for actually transferring the footage to a computer. I believe studio cameras that do live HD usually have SDI outputs. HDMI would be a poor choice for live streaming from a camera to anything other than directly to a display, and it would be an even worse choice for transferring footage that was already recorded to the camera's local storage.
    – Spiff
    Commented May 14, 2020 at 0:00
  • I appreciate that but there's an extremely limited budget and the cheapest options output live with a hdmi cable that's the main reasons for using it, but thank you for the information
    – dfaknah
    Commented May 14, 2020 at 7:47

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Nope.

Your converters are HDMI to Cat 5, not HDMI to Ethernet.

That is, they use the same kind of cable, but they send a completely different, incompatible kind of signal over that cable. You cannot mix the two.

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