2 video signals over 1 cat 5?

[Pkatt]

Just thought I would throw this out there, never know who might know something.   

 

Anyone know of a specific product, that will run 2 completely separate video signals over 1 single cat 5?

 

 

I currently am converting both signals to pairs of wires with baluns, and running one signal over the blue pair, and one over the orange pair, and it works, but obviously since there is no shielding inside the wire, I'm getting bleedover.

 

Now I know i can do this easily if I run them on separate cat 5s, or something different, I'm just trying to not take up so many jacks just for a "fun" project in my office, just using what is already in place, and just wondered if anyone might know of a product that will do this.  I haven't found one yet.

 

 

(I'm basically running the surveillance camera feed, and a cable tv signal, to an old touch pad, which I put on my desk.    )

[ritualclarity]

Try running two wires with only one termination ( jack) where the wires you are having interference is hosted in separate wires until the jack. Provided that the signal don't bleed at the jack. At lest it should be less interference than running the same singles through the wire itself as both of the main wires are separated.

 

Or

 

Better strip two lengths of network cable. Wire the blue and orange. Use aftermarket wire installation ( kind of like used in recovering wires like with custom computers) and run both the orange pair and the blue pair through separate and the rest through a third ( control) Basically your network cable don't work because if insulation so create one with the proper insulation and then connect it to a jack. Hopefully the interference with the jack will be low enough to be a non issue. You can then after testing run all two / three bundles of insulated wires through yet another "cover" to provide a nice neat custom wire for your project.

 

Don't know if it will even work.

[Pkatt]

Try running two wires with only one termination ( jack) where the wires you are having interference is hosted in separate wires until the jack. Provided that the signal don't bleed at the jack. At lest it should be less interference than running the same singles through the wire itself as both of the main wires are separated.

 

Or

 

Better strip two lengths of network cable. Wire the blue and orange. Use aftermarket wire installation ( kind of like used in recovering wires like with custom computers) and run both the orange pair and the blue pair through separate and the rest through a third ( control) Basically your network cable don't work because if insulation so create one with the proper insulation and then connect it to a jack. Hopefully the interference with the jack will be low enough to be a non issue. You can then after testing run all two / three bundles of insulated wires through yet another "cover" to provide a nice neat custom wire for your project.

 

Don't know if it will even work.

 

Nah, I don't want to run any new wiring  (if I'm reading right)   The wires go up the inside of the wall, and down the attic, to the rack, on the other side of the building.   As soon as the signals get to my office, I'm breaking them back out to separate wires.     I have 4 network jacks (going back to the patch panel) at my workbench, and I was just trying to figure out a way to do this without tieing up two of them.     

[ritualclarity]

Oh based on the OP it sounded like they were in  your office not all across your home. I don't' know of another way as the signal wires and design wasn't intended for multiple inputs / outputs. You will pretty much have to tie two jacks up for this. Each signal would need to have its own wire or you will have bleed through and interference.

[LordWabbit]

OR (this being a big or)

You could terminate the line shortly after the camera, hook up a raspberrypi and a hub and have them both operating on ethernet which would only require one ethernet connection to your desk.  Then using power over ethernet (if you are happy with 100mb instead of 1gb) you can supply power to both pi's using the same cable as well.