HDCP

[Otto]

Will the Raspberry have HDCP enabled over HDMI, as I would like to use this with non-HDCP hardware?

[jamesh]

I believe so. So if you are playing back protected content it will be DRM'ed, and therefor will not play on non HDCP enabled devices.

However, non-drm material should be OK.

This, I believe, is part of the license for HDMI - to prevent people from using equipment like the PI for removing encryption from encrypted data streams.

[Otto]

That is what you would expect, however I have a Cyclone Micro 2 media player which will not display even the main menu when connected to non-hdcp equipment.

[jamesh]

OK, I'll double check.

[Michael]

Ideally it would turn off just the video plane rather than the whole output.

[Rasz]

Ideally it would not bother, HDCP can be stripped with E150 box http://hdfury.eu/product.php?i.....product=11 so why pretend?

[sitalchauhan]

I am also planning to use a Raspberry Pi with an old plasma screen (before HDMI was around).

The plasma screen has a DVI input, but it does not support HDCP. So I can connect HDMI equipment to it with a "HDMI to DVI" cable as long as there is no HDCP protection in the signal (e.g. I can connect my WDTV Live and it shows perfectly over DVI. But cannot connect a FreeviewHD box as they all encode the signal with HDCP).

So I would be very interested to know if the Raspberry Pi encodes all signals with HDCP, making it completely unusable for me with this plasma screen?

[dom]

No. The chip supports HDCP and is used on other platforms where the content provider insists, and the content is DRM protected.
The Raspberry Pi has no such deals in place, and so HDCP is disabled.

[BrianM]

If there is no HDCP support then R-Pi cannot play HD channels (on RASPBMC, for example)?

[ghans]

@BrianM
What are you talking about ? Is there a HD channel targeting XBMC or
the Raspberry Pi as reciever ? I did not hear that anyone got a satellite tuner card (USB)
working with the Pi while displaying the channel.


ghans