I have scoured the internet and have yet to find a solution that will work with all the facets of the problem.
I work in a brand new college and when they designed the classrooms in the college they all have media racks in the back and a media closet outside it in the hallway. They are all networked together and all the Audio and video from the classroom is routed throughout the college to a video Knock down stairs. There are 3 Polycom Cameras inside the classroom that are also routed through the same system.
With the warranty on the brand new system we can not unhook, remove, open up any media PC or any other item in the closet. IF we can find a way to use a signal from a port that is not being used we can do it as long as we again are not unhooking anything.
There is a DVD-R at the top of the Media rack and its RCA's (Red, White and Yellow) out are all being used at the moment. The only open ports on the DVD-R is the SPDIF Digital Coaxial Out (Orange looking RCA), The SVideo out and the RGB Component Video out.
We as another contractor in the college facilitate the use of Adobe Connect formerly known as Macromedia Breeze and are looking for a way to capture the video and Audio source being pumped into the TV/DVD player so that we can capture it via a USB External Capture card and bring that video and audio source into Breeze so other people outside of the college can come in and see their presentations etc.
At the old college we were allowed to use an OSPREY PCI Card and capture all of these video and audio sources easily but with the new Lockheed and Martin contract we can not open or touch the new PCs because of the violation of Warranty. There is no VHS of course and the only place to hijack this feed from the system is the DVD-R player at the top. It has the Video and Audio from the classroom routed in through its RCA In's and its RCA Outs are used also in the configuration as I covered Earlier.
We currently have a Kworld DVD Maker USB 2.0 Device that has RCA's In and Svideo in. Is there anyway to take the Coaxial SPDIF Digital Audio and run it through some sort of audio converter that would be small and preferably usb powered to convert that Digital Sound into an Analog Signal so we could send it back out across RCA's into our Capture Device and bring it into the Computer. Or is there another external USB Capture Device we should check out that would do the Video and capture and convert that we are not even looking at.
http://www.soundblaster.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=205&product=11226
This would work perfectly and do the Video and Audio for us over USB but they are out of stock and are saying they will remain out of stock and not make anymore. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Remember we cannot unplug or unhook or open up any existing cabling or hardware and the only open Video/Audio Out ports are the SPDIF Digital Coaxial, RGB Component Video and the Svideo. We cannot use a RCA Splitter on the exisiting RCA's because it would be unhooking existing cabling. The solution also needs to be small and able to convert the Audio/video to a USB source that a Computer can capture into Adobe Connect.
I had no where else to turn and thought you guys here could hopefully give me some new ensights. Thanks a lot for any and all of your help!!!
