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CAM interface to remove copy protection flag from a legally decrypted stream

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Hello everybody, I know that it would not be 100% legal, but it is also not so bad. Please let me explain.
I receive a set of TV channels decoding it legally using its original CAM module. The CAM module is inserted in a Blu Ray recorder with integrated SAT receiver and a HDD drive. Until now there were no restrictions on the copying of the recorded contents. Now the provider has replaced the old CAM module with a never version, which implements DRM management for the copy protection. Like it was with the old CAM, I can record the TV contents on the internal HDD drive of the recorder, but now when I burn them into a blu ray disc, the original content is automatically deleted from the internal HDD. It remains only on the blu ray disc and I can't copy it back into the internal HDD. I can't make a backup copy of it. I can't move it from the BD disc. The protected content can't even be played on the PC, with a normal player.
Is there a PCMCIA interface to be placed between the decoding CAM module and the input slot of the BD recorder, to remove only the copy protection flag from the decrypted stream? It is a very annoying limitation for my use.
 
Hi, no. It would too much complicated and time intensive. I should transfer each file to the PC, process it, then transfer it back to the BD recorder and burn it on the BD disc in its proper format. It is not a feasible way. I think that the BD recorder also would not even accept the mkv format, without to convert it (lossy) in the .m2ts format it uses.
 
I was thinking of using it to extract a playable file once you'd burnt the BD, which, apparently, you are going to do anyway.
 
yes, but even if it works, it is too troublesome to transfer it back to the BD recorder, every time. I have read also that makeMKV doesn't remove the copy protection flag,so it would not work anyway.
 
yes, but even if it works, it is too troublesome to transfer it back to the BD recorder, every time. I have read also that makeMKV doesn't remove the copy protection flag,so it would not work anyway.
well I know somebody that has used Makemkv over many years to copy, compress & strip all manner of DVD's without issues.
 
I have read also that makeMKV doesn't remove the copy protection flag,so it would not work anyway.
Their web site says:
Produced MKV files are not degraded in any way and have no time or usage restrictions.​
 
Not all DVDs are protected in the same way against copy. Anyway, even if it works with blu rays, I could use this solution only in a very few cases, where I have not to write the file back on the BD disc, because if I burn a file on the disc manually on the PC, the DB recorder will not see it on the disc. I need a way to remove the copy protection directly on the decrypted stream exiting from the CAM module.
 

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