Solved! Can you split an ethernet signal to composite outputs?

[nilodavila12]

I have a Samsung UHD 48" TV, which I receive my video signal through an ethernet cable. I would like to hook a DVD recorder to the unit, but without a video out port on the TV the possible solution I'm contemplating is to split the ethernet-in cable to composite out connections. I would buy an ethernet spliter junction , just like the splitter junctions for a telephone line, and from one of the junctions I would install an ethernet to composite splitter. Is this possible?

 

[nilodavila12]

Do you know the pinout of the Ethernet/RJ45 cable? Do you know what kind of protocol / interface they are using (probably not as that is proprietary information)? That cable has 8 contacts (8P8C). How do you know that the video signal can be completely transmitted using only 3 of these 8 contacts? You are probably receiving digital input, but you want to somehow convert that to analog RCA signal which can not be done with a simple connector.

I think what you will need to do is completely understand the interface pins on the ethernet connector and each pins function. You will then need to design a circuit / board with an application processor code/software that can decrypt the incoming signal, perform the digital to analog conversion and then output it on an RCA interface.

Apart from the legal concerns as stated by Alabalcho, I do not think it would be easy, even if you did find and understand all the protocols / encryption techniques etc. You would require knowledge of all their protocols, a degree in electrical engineering and probably someone who has designed low power high speed circuits before.

I do not think this is worth attempting

Did you ever read the whole discussion about that? It's perfectly clear that that Ethernet cable is not carrying video signals, but Ethernet frames. Even if OP reads Ethernet 100Base electrical standard, and TCP/IP protocol, and frames, what device the OP would need to decode / decrypt the Amazon Video / Apple TV stream, re-encode it back, and output it on analogue outputs suitable for the recorder?

Thanks for your input. My solution seems to be a digital DVR recorder, like MythTV, and then record the videos to my DVD recorder.

 

[Alabalcho]

Thanks for your input. My solution seems to be a digital DVR recorder, like MythTV, and then record the videos to my DVD recorder.

I would not like to be the one raining on your parade, but MythTV (or any other software) is not a solution for what you want, even if such a solution exists. MythTV is a DVR for over-the-air TV only, and your sources are anything but. Again - there 's (almost) no legal way for you to make personal recordings of streaming content (being it YouTube, Amazon Video, Netflix, Apple TV etc)

The way pirates steal shows is by using computers and modified media players on them. Gamers have special hardware allowing them to capture HDMI signals and record them as video files, but again - nothing that would work for century-old VHS/DVD recorders.

 

[nilodavila12]

Thanks for your input. My solution seems to be a digital DVR recorder, like MythTV, and then record the videos to my DVD recorder.

I would not like to be the one raining on your parade, but MythTV (or any other software) is not a solution for what you want, even if such a solution exists. MythTV is a DVR for over-the-air TV only, and your sources are anything but. Again - there 's (almost) no legal way for you to make personal recordings of streaming content (being it YouTube, Amazon Video, Netflix, Apple TV etc)

The way pirates steal shows is by using computers and modified media players on them. Gamers have special hardware allowing them to capture HDMI signals and record them as video files, but again - nothing that would work for century-old VHS/DVD recorders.

I finally found a way to do what I want- since I could watch Amazon Prime and Netflix on the computer I use a screen recorder to capture the video, and then I connect the DVD recorder to my computer and record the video to DVD.

Thanks to all that collaborated with this issue that I posted.

Thanks again.