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This will be useful for very few of you I imagine, but it took me 2 days to figure out so I decided to post here in the hopes it will help some poor soul in future.
I wanted to record apps I had made off the screen of my One X (it's a work phone so I could not root it and use an app - which generally turn out laggy and s****y anyway).
However, it has that damn HD copy protection on it, which means you can't just plug the HDMI cable into an Elgato etc. because it will refuse to display and just give a giant red cross instead.
Here's the workaround:
I wanted to record apps I had made off the screen of my One X (it's a work phone so I could not root it and use an app - which generally turn out laggy and s****y anyway).
However, it has that damn HD copy protection on it, which means you can't just plug the HDMI cable into an Elgato etc. because it will refuse to display and just give a giant red cross instead.
Here's the workaround:
- Use an MHL cable as usual to get the HDMI signal out
- Convert the signal to S-Video/Component/Composite using an HDCP compliant device (I used this, but any HDCP compliant device will work).
- Plug the new analogue signal into your Elgato/other capture device
- Make rude gestures to Hollywood. They and their stupid protection can suck it for trying to prevent me recording my own IP on my device.