• ramses
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Topic: What happens with the SPDIF Copy protection bit with RME devices ?

Imagine somebody wants to transfer his own recordings from a DAT to PC.
But this doesnt work because the DAT sets the copy protection bit.
DAT -> optical SPDIF -> Recording device -> USB -> PC

What possibilities are there to solve this ?
By routing the SPDIF signal to an AES output because in AES the copy protection bit has a different meaning ?
Other ideas ?

I can only assume that the action is legal, it was a guy from another forum who asked this and I am wondering if problems like this maybe happen more often so I am only interested in, whether something like this can be fixed easily.

BR Ramses - UFX III, 12Mic, XTC, ADI-2 Pro FS R BE, RayDAT, X10SRi-F, E5-1680v4, Win10Pro22H2, Cub14

2 Reply by folkfreak (edited by folkfreak 2019-06-07 20:27:44)

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Re: What happens with the SPDIF Copy protection bit with RME devices ?

I think the copy protection bit is only transmitted with consumer formats like optical etc, not AES

  • ramses
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Re: What happens with the SPDIF Copy protection bit with RME devices ?

Also my understandling from handbook. Thanks.

BR Ramses - UFX III, 12Mic, XTC, ADI-2 Pro FS R BE, RayDAT, X10SRi-F, E5-1680v4, Win10Pro22H2, Cub14
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Re: What happens with the SPDIF Copy protection bit with RME devices ?

SCMS is totally ignored at the SPDIF inputs. As simple as that...

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