[mythtv-users] Google TV HDMI Input

Mark Buechler mark.buechler at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 21:02:44 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On 11/17/2010 15:51, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Robert McNamara
>> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, that's what he means, no, it does not bypass HDCP.  It respects
>>> it entirely.  You will get nothing from a consumer cable set top box.
>>>
>> Do STB's always use HDCP when using HDMI or would it at least
>> sometimes be disabled?
>>
>
> Always.
>
> The problem with HDMI capture is the size of the stream. I know of no HDMI
capture device which will compress (h264?) the stream and real-time
compression on the CPU would be rather difficult.

- Mark.
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