Anyway to hack the Sony pass through copyright protection?

[tommyboy]

I had a Sony TRV27 miniDVcam and I'm trying to pass through from my DVD to the PC but I receive a copyright notice in the camera display. The manual says "you cannot record or capture the video output ...that include copyright protection signals such as the ID-2 system". There is anyway to Hack this ?

[yg1968]

You don't need a hack. If you are using the passthrough correctly (i.e. not recording onto tape but sending the signal directly to the computer through a firewire cable), most capturing software will not detect this ID-2 protection. The only software that I know that detects this protection is the Sony provided software.

If you have no other capturing software, you can use DVIO or amcap (freeware programs) which do not detect ID-2.

[tommyboy]

The copyright notice came from the camcorder and not from the software, so i guess the protection is before it arrive to the software. I don't know... I can try that app. to see what happen. Thanks

Tommyboy

[yg1968]

I forgot to mention, make sure that "DV out" is enabled on your miniDV camcorder (select it from your camcorder's menu).