Recording Encrypted A/V from a Roku

[OutThere]

I was reading a thread here on this site from 12 years ago that was closed. So will open a new thread. What I want to do is connect my Roku up to a black box and then connect the black box to a PC or a PVR and My Flat screen TV via all connections using HDMI, if possible. Everyone was talking about splitters, will the splitter strip away the encryption? what i would like to do is record TV shows and save for latter viewing....none of that cloud crap, i want them locally

[netmask56]

Quite legal in Australia and most of Europe with machines for live TV on machines like Beyonwiz, Humax and many Enigma2 clones that are capable of recording up to 12 different off air tv stations simultaneously and not encrypted .TS format. For Roku the program material, not being off air TV would breach local and international copyright no matter what your intent.

[october262]

I was reading a thread here on this site from 12 years ago that was closed. So will open a new thread. What I want to do is connect my Roku up to a black box and then connect the black box to a PC or a PVR and My Flat screen TV via all connections using HDMI, if possible. Everyone was talking about splitters, will the splitter strip away the encryption? what i would like to do is record TV shows and save for latter viewing....none of that cloud crap, i want them locally

why not try streamfab ?? it'll work on roku.

[usually_quiet]

I don't use StreamFab but based on what I read on DVDFab's webpages for StreamFab's Windows and Android versions, it doesn't run on a Roku. Instead, the software runs on Windows computers or Android devices and records streaming video being received by those devices via their Internet connection. I can't tell you if the Roku channels that you want to record are available on either a Windows PC or an Android device.

[OutThere]

what do splitters do?

[OldMan64]

From what I recall, the HDMI splitter would remove the protection from the HDMI signal to allow the recording device to record the HDMI signal. IDK if that still applies in this day and age.

[usually_quiet]

what do splitters do?

To add to what OldMan64 wrote, HDMI splitters are technically not allowed to remove HDCP, according to the tems of the HDMI technology license. However, a percentage of them remove HDCP anyway, although eventually models that do that either disappear from the market or are re-designed to handle HDCP as they are required to do.

The only way to find HDMI splitters that remove HDCP is to look at recent user reviews online or to get a recommendation. It may not be as easy to find them as it was years ago.

[OutThere]

IT WORKED!!!! I bought an HDMI splitter on Amazon said it worked with Roku, probably they all do. I have a 60in Samsung smart LED TV I picked up on Craigslist for free. The only issue with the TV is one of the LED diffusers fell off, which it's in a place if you notice this at first you soon forget when you are watching the TV. Also the speakers are blown makes a distortion / vibrating sound when low tones, so I got a SPDIF DAC and play the audio through my sound system, the fiber optic cable they sent with the device did not work bought another cable. So the HDMI spliter does have one issue it does not play HD videos from youtube that i have downloaded and put on a thumb drive plugged into the Roku though it will play on the monitor...strange? The same video will play on the TV if the Roku is connected direct to the TV. Could it be the cable I used to go from the splitter to the TV? maybe a cheapo HDMI cable? all in all I am pleased. The HDMI splitter says it's 4K, so shouldn't it be able to do HD? Next step getting the video into a desktop. any ideas? i know they have HDMI to usb, do they come with capture software, how does that work?

shows only on the monitor, TV says can't display HD video from youtube copied to thumb drive inserted into the Roku

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regular video from Youtube

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all the TV shows are ok and that is why I want this

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[fooledagain]

I use A Hauppauge HD PVR Rocket to record onto my PC. Works just fine.

[OutThere]

I like Hauppauge hardware, actually had ATI first, then switched to Hauppauge after ATI was bought out by AMD in 2006 ...or maybe a little sooner than that when I switched... I have several ATI capture cards as well a few Hauppauge that are probably obsolete. will try the Rocket PVR

[usually_quiet]

IT WORKED!!!! I bought an HDMI splitter on Amazon said it worked with Roku, probably they all do. I have a 60in Samsung smart LED TV I picked up on Craigslist for free. The only issue with the TV is one of the LED diffusers fell off, which it's in a place if you notice this at first you soon forget when you are watching the TV. Also the speakers are blown makes a distortion / vibrating sound when low tones, so I got a SPDIF DAC and play the audio through my sound system, the fiber optic cable they sent with the device did not work bought another cable. So the HDMI spliter does have one issue it does not play HD videos from youtube that i have downloaded and put on a thumb drive plugged into the Roku though it will play on the monitor...strange? The same video will play on the TV if the Roku is connected direct to the TV. Could it be the cable I used to go from the splitter to the TV? maybe a cheapo HDMI cable? all in all I am pleased. The HDMI splitter says it's 4K, so shouldn't it be able to do HD? Next step getting the video into a desktop. any ideas? i know they have HDMI to usb, do they come with capture software, how does that work?

shows only on the monitor, TV says can't display HD video from youtube copied to thumb drive inserted into the Roku

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regular video from Youtube

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all the TV shows are ok and that is why I want this

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Your test proves nothing with respect to recording the output from your Roku with a PC capture device. HDCP is a form of copy protection. Capture devices are not permitted to record HDMI signals that are HDCP-protected and HDMI capture devices from Hauppauge, Avermedia, Black Magic, Magewell, and other well-known brands obey that rule. Some (but not all) cheap Chinese capture devices are reported to record HDCP-protected HDMI signals but I can't give you a recommendation for one since I haven't tested any.

Any HDMI splitter should work in your test if its outgoing HDMI ports are connected to two displays, as long as both displays support HDCP and the video source device (the Roku) as well as both destination displays (the TV and the monitor) all support a common resolution and refresh rate. If one of the displays doesn't support the resolution and frame refresh rate of the video being sent to it by the Roku, that display won't show a picture.