Linux TV

[Ted]

the converter box must be dropping the DRM HDCP packets?
These types of converters were/are a target for shut down (by certain 
political bodies), and from what I saw, hard to get.
Wonder if this is the case with this converter.

-tl

On 02/03/2012 01:23 PM, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> On 2/3/2012 1:11 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 01:02:55PM -0500, Jamon Camisso wrote:
>>> On 2/3/2012 12:54 PM, Ted wrote:
>>>> i use the hauppy hdpvr
>>>>   on debian (linux DE mint).
>>>>
>>>> it is nice because the DRM doesn't extend to analogue component, and it
>>>> takes the analogue component out and 1080i or 720p captures it.
>>>> Now you lose a bit in that you have gone from dig->ana->dig, but its
>>>> still pretty good. On a BR source its hard to tell difference because
>>>> its so clear to begin with.
>>> BlackMagic have an HDMI capture card (or box) that works with Linux.
>>> That way you'd have digital right from your Rogers box. Driver notes:
>>> http://www.blackmagic-design.com/media/3225450/Blackmagic_Desktop_Video_Linux_9.1.txt
>> But only HDMI without HDCP.  Obviously there is HDCP used on the rogers
>> box output.
>>
>> It is for people editing their own material, not for capturing from
>> cable boxes.
> Seems like there's still a way:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r4BkAzkCV8 - around 2:30 he describes
> cabling.
>
> HDMI+HDCP (PS3) ->  DVI+SPDIF cables ->  HDMI signal ->  BlackMagic
>
> Jamon
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