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Blue2836 Jan 11, 2017 @ 9:21pm

Mirroring Vive on a Television in a different room from PC

I have a Geforce GTX 1080 and it only has 1 HDMI out and 4 Displayports. As you know the Vive requires one HDMI, and my television in my living room only takes HDMI. Now, I ran a very long HDMI cable to a different room in my house where I will use the Vive because I want to use the computer I already have but don't want to move it. I also ran a USB cable. I don't predict any problems with that. However, I would like to mirror what the Vive visor is showing and what the player is hearing on my television in the living room. I tried using a displayport to HDMI converter and a very long active HDMI cable, but I'm getting glitches and flickering. Do any of you know how I could mirror everything onto my television in the living room without affecting the performance of the Vive? Any help would be appreciated.

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Black Blade Jan 11, 2017 @ 11:47pm

These may not be relvent for you
but how abut using SteamLink?

if that dose not help i guesscadapters are the best second
how ever i do want to ask dont you have also DVI?

Press start to begin Jan 12, 2017 @ 10:52am

Originally posted by Black Blade:
These may not be relvent for you
but how abut using SteamLink?

if that dose not help i guesscadapters are the best second
how ever i do want to ask dont you have also DVI?

hmm yes, steamlink could work, and would still be cheaper then the price for a very long hdmi cable these days, i might try this one of these days, i was about to move my steamlink to another tv anyway

Blue2836 Jan 12, 2017 @ 12:34pm

Thanks for your quick reply guys. But from what I have been reading, the steam link performance is terrible with the Vive. People say that it's super laggy and unusable. So I don't think that would work. It seems odd to me that replicating the experience on a tv wouldn't have been something that the developers would have considered to be important. I can't believe there's no solution to this.

Press start to begin Jan 12, 2017 @ 1:13pm

Originally posted by Blue2836:
Thanks for your quick reply guys. But from what I have been reading, the steam link performance is terrible with the Vive. People say that it's super laggy and unusable. So I don't think that would work. It seems odd to me that replicating the experience on a tv wouldn't have been something that the developers would have considered to be important. I can't believe there's no solution to this.

You could also buy an HDMI splitter, but i cant tell u anything about the performance with vr while using 2 hdmi connections from one source

Blue2836 Jan 12, 2017 @ 3:08pm

I've considered the HDMI splitter, but I wonder if it would also affect the performance.

Blue2836 Jan 12, 2017 @ 5:24pm

Has anyone tried streaming to a television with google's latest version of the Chromecast - the Chromecast Ultra?

[VLR]Flygaff Jan 21, 2017 @ 6:57am

I ran my HDMI from the computer 35 feet to where I have the Vive setup. I used a display x HDMI adapter from the computer to my Marantz receiver. From there I have a 65ft Active HDMI goint to the Sony 4K HDTV. everything works fine.

HammockTime Jan 28, 2017 @ 7:29pm

You can actually use a DisplayPort to mini DisplayPort cable to go from the computer to the Vive breakout box and leave the HDMI for the TV. I think most people aren't aware of this.

Black Blade Jan 28, 2017 @ 10:24pm

Originally posted by hammocktime:
You can actually use a DisplayPort to mini DisplayPort cable to go from the computer to the Vive breakout box and leave the HDMI for the TV. I think most people aren't aware of this.

There where lots of issues with it, not sure if its better now

HammockTime Jan 28, 2017 @ 10:39pm

Just recently I read about someone using it with no problems. I'm actually thinking of doing the same thing myself. I also have the same situation wrt my video card/TV.

Last edited by HammockTime; Jan 28, 2017 @ 10:40pm

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Black Blade Jan 28, 2017 @ 11:42pm

Originally posted by hammocktime:
Just recently I read about someone using it with no problems. I'm actually thinking of doing the same thing myself. I also have the same situation wrt my video card/TV.

There may be
Thing is its hard to tell, users with no issues rarely compline abut it