[mythtv-users] Cheap HDMI capture

[Kirk Bocek]

On 6/27/2016 9:34 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 27/06/16 17:18, Dan Ritter wrote:
>>
>>
>> I just ran across this:
>>
>> https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/cheap-hdmi-capture-for-linux
>>
>> in which the author writes about reverse-engineering an
>> HDMI-over-IP extender device in order to capture the output.
>>
>> Looks like it might make a good tuner if combined with a set top
>> box and an IR blaster.
>>
> You might get the traffic that way but it would still have HDCP 
> applied. I think you're gonna need a bigger gadget.
>

Are you sure? The author says the stream can be dumped to VLC. I don't 
think VLC can decode HDCP.