Will this connection work without audio/video lag?

[10005988]

So basically, I am running a 50 foot hdmi cable from my computer in one room down into the floor, into the crawlspace underneath my house and back up to my family room and into the t.v.

I'm already quite wary about using a cable that long but my T.V. is only 720p and I've heard it should be fine even at that distance...1080p is another story.

By computer is really good. I just custom built it so it could run as an HTPC. On my motherboard, I've got an optical out..

Now heres where I'm concerned the most.
Optical cables don't work well at all at very long distances...i.e. more than about 25 feet. What if I got a cheap little 3 foot optical to digital coaxial cable, plug in a long a** coaxial cable so it can run underneath my house and then plug that into my audio receiver directly if I'm in the mood for some surround sound action...

Anyways, I'm not worried about the HDMI end because it carries both video and audio and delivers it at around the same time (pretty much). I'm worried that If I want to use my receiver to get some surround sound theres going to be a delay....


P.S. Wow, that was extremely long winded. But thanks for any input that you can provide.

[10005988]

Sorry, I posted this in the wrong section. Please delete this thread.

[judgeschambers]

Moving to general boxee help.

[Datapotomus]

You should be able to run the fiber optic cable, and not have to convert it. I have seen some pretty decent 30' cables. Just if you are, try not to go cheap.

As for the delay issue, while you are in a video, if you go into the sound options there is an option to adjust the delay on your audio. So, if you hear some delay just adjust it while watching it.

FYI, you can run a 25 foot HDMI cable with no problem. This is only about 8 meters. Just make sure it is a little better made cable. No 15 buckers. You can also do HDMI over Ethernet as well if you really wanted to. You just have to run two Cat 5/6 cables instead of one HDMI cable, and pop in a converter. If you do it with Cat 6 I "hear" you can get about 150 feet out of it.

You can also just run the sound through HDMI, and get a HDMI toslink splitter. I found mine on Ebay for like 50 bucks. This might be your best bet to limit the amount of attenuation you might get.

[seliday]

FYI, you can run a 25 foot HDMI cable with no problem. This is only about 8 meters. Just make sure it is a little better made cable. No 15 buckers. You can also do HDMI over Ethernet as well if you really wanted to. You just have to run two Cat 5/6 cables instead of one HDMI cable, and pop in a converter. If you do it with Cat 6 I "hear" you can get about 150 feet out of it.