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> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:44:04 -0500<br>> From: <a class="reify-linkifier" href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a><br>> To: <a class="reify-linkifier" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Google TV HDMI Input<br>> <br>> On 11/17/2010 11:12, Justin Dunn wrote:<br>> > Hi,<br>> > I was reading about Google TV and it seems to have an HDMI input which <br>> > displays in it's interface.<br>> > Apparently you can have a full web browser open with a little corner <br>> > display of the HDMI input.<br>> > It appears that there must be an HDMI capture card in existence that <br>> > can capture the HDMI output of STBs that Google uses.<br>> > So I was wondering what prevents a HDMI capture card that captures the <br>> > HDMI out of STBs existing for consumers that works with Linux and <br>> > mythtv from existing? Is it just the HDCP that prevents it?<br>> <br>> The GoogleTV is not capable of capture in the sense you're thinking of. <br>> It has a dedicated hardware path that decodes the video, does whatever <br>> transforms are requested, composites the GoogleTV UI on top, and outputs <br>> it. At no point is the decoded video ever made available to the Linux <br>> system such that it could be stored to disk. It may as well be your <br>> monitor/TV overlaying the interface.<br>> <br>> There _are_ HDMI capture cards. BlackMagic makes a PCIe x1 card that <br>> runs around $80. However you will not find one that will touch anything <br>> with HDCP.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a class="reify-linkifier" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>> <a class="reify-linkifier" href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><div><br></div><div>Do you mean the card at <a href="http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/">http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/</a> ?</div><div>If so that page says "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15px; ">Intensity features HDMI-in for connecting to cameras and digital set-top boxes for the highest quality capture.</span>" which would make me think that it bypasses HDCP but I suppose there could be some STBs that don't do that and it works on them or I'm misreading the page.</div> </body>
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