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Title: Oops! You can't play most protected digital video on an external Mac monitor Post by: HCK on September 11, 2016, 04:05:14 pm Oops! You can't play most protected digital video on an external Mac monitor
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Many years ago, High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) was born because the film industry freaked out over releasing digital movies that would flow digitally—rather than through analog conversion—across a cable to a monitor or television. The standard requires a cryptographic handshake between the software in a dedicated player or on a computer or mobile device and the display. Without that handshake, no video would flow.</p><p> I wrote about HDCP most recently in March (http://www.macworld.com/article/3042537/streaming-services/how-to-fix-hdcp-errors-with-external-monitors-in-os-x.html), offering a variety of troubleshooting advice for people trying to sort out why their software on a Mac wouldn’t allow them to playback any video on a connected display, or why they received a warning about degraded content because an HDCP handshake wasn’t happening.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3116414/macs/oops-you-cant-play-most-protected-digital-video-on-an-external-mac-monitor.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Oops! You can't play most protected digital video on an external Mac monitor (http://www.macworld.com/article/3116414/macs/oops-you-cant-play-most-protected-digital-video-on-an-external-mac-monitor.html#tk.rss_all) |