Hdcp

[chikchik]

Hello,
Where can I find HDMI cable that remove HDCP Protection?
Or How can I record over HDMI with HDCP Protection?

Thank you.

[Ghitulescu]

Not legally.

[setarip_old]

@chikchik

Hi!

Use component cables instead - if your hardware still has component I/O available...

[kieranrk]

Not legally.

Oh come on...

[Ghitulescu]

Oh come on...

I'll be glad to buy one of these in continental Europe, at shops' price, not smuggler's one :)

[pandy]

http://www.hdfury.com/

[mariush]

That hdfury thing outputs only analogic video signal, so quality is degraded. I'm personally not aware of any hardware that takes input hdmi with hdcp and outputs unencrypted hdmi, ready to be captured using a Blackmagic card or something else. This would be illegal, according to the HDMI licensing rules and DMCA and maybe other things.

Something that may help would be this page: http://sites.google.com/site/hdcontentsecurity/

But it's hit and miss (you may buy one of those "devices" and on the page and find out the internals are changed or no longer as it's specified on the page) and besides you'd need to be pretty good at soldering.

[Ghitulescu]

At every one and each Video or Electronic Fair held in Europe, the police confiscated hundreds of HDMI "free" devices from Chinese and Taiwanese exposants.
In Germany, all the incoming mail are also checked. At least in theory.
These devices are available only in the countries that enjoy a certain "relation" to "smugglers" (Free trade zones - like Canarias, Malta, "private" business like all the Pakistani/Indian commerce within the Commonsweatlh and so on).

Bottomline: unless the law changes, these devices are not legal.

[ChiDragon]

Recording is possible. OP can check my post history if he's still around.

[pandy]

That hdfury thing outputs only analogic video signal, so quality is degraded.


With proper capturing quality is not degraded in way that can impact visual, subjective quality of the video.


I'm personally not aware of any hardware that takes input hdmi with hdcp and outputs unencrypted hdmi, ready to be captured using a Blackmagic card or something else. This would be illegal, according to the HDMI licensing rules and DMCA and maybe other things.

Something that may help would be this page: http://sites.google.com/site/hdcontentsecurity/

But it's hit and miss (you may buy one of those "devices" and on the page and find out the internals are changed or no longer as it's specified on the page) and besides you'd need to be pretty good at soldering.

Still You can use one of Altera (possibly other vendors to) equiped FPGA's boards like TerasIC video boards with HDMI daughter card.

Or buy TV with working HDMI (older model) that is equiped with some of HDMI receivers and connect few wires to non encrypted output (on modern TV usually HDMI is embedded to the VDU)