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    Hdmi?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by DeadLy, Dec 22, 2008.

  1. DeadLy

    DeadLy Notebook Consultant

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    So I'm trying to use my m15x as a blu-ray player connected to my 50". But cyberlink keeps telling me that I'm not HDCP compliant?

    Playing blu-rays are fine on the laptop, but when I try to output the display I get that "HDCP" error. I'm currently using driver 180.48.

    Anyone knows how to fix this problem?
     
    DeadLy, Dec 22, 2008
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    Mystik Notebook Deity

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    how is the external display configured? only output, twinview, dualview?

    Basically, mirrored, extended, or replacing the LCD?
     
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    I tested it on all display configs, and it gives me not HDCP Compliant
     
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    but it will play on just the LCD?
     
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    DeadLy Notebook Consultant

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    it'll play just fine on the laptops lcd, but when I hook it up to a external thats when I get the HDCP error.
     
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    this might have more to do with your display than anything.... according to what I'm reading from Wikipedia regarding HDCP compliance, in v1.1, HDMI first appears on the compliance list, (therefore your display device would have to be HDCP 1.1 compatible), now, from what I gather, this is a start-point (disk & decoder) to endpoint (Display) encryption scheme. so the player would read the content and encode it using a unique set of HDCP keys according to the KSV, these keys would then determine the rest of the communication streams between the display and decoder.

    your LVDS system display would be HDCP compliant, but the HDMI, might not... You might want to do a lot more reading into HDCP and whether your display panel has compatibility with that type of content stream.
     
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    i don't know if it makes a difference, but I can run a ps3 on hdmi on the same tv just fine.
     
    DeadLy, Dec 22, 2008
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    but can it do Blu-Ray playback on said TV?

    what make/model is it? there might be something easy that's being overlooked.
     
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    yes it plays blu-ray just fine, the tv is a Vizio 50". Not near the TV right now so don't know the model #
     
    DeadLy, Dec 22, 2008
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