Mon Oct 14, 2013 7:56 pm
This should be simple but HDCP is killing me.
We often have need to play video or show images live in our room on two different outputs: one is a projector for those in the room to view, and one is an HDTV monitor in a different area of the room. Two outputs, one source.
I want to use an AppleTV as the source, but in order to get to the two outputs, I need to split the signal but HDCP doesn't like that. I rigged up a few mini-converters to allow me to show still images on both devices, but as soon as I try to play video, (even my own video I recorded on my own iPhone) I get an HDCP error from the AppleTV. Thanks to somebody in HDCP world, I apparently don't own enough rights to my own video to show it on multiple devices :/
Right now, I'm going HDMI from the AppleTV into an HDMI to SDI mini-converter (MC#1). From that converter, I go out SDI to an SDI to HDMI mini-converter (MC#2) and from there HDMI into the projector. From the MC#1, I also am going SDI out and then into an SDI to HDMI mini-converter (MC#3) and out of that HDMI into the HDTV monitor. Again, that works all day with still images but not video.
Any ideas on a better method that will allow video to both devices?