DirectTV2PC

**Ashland1381** · 10-28-2009 06:51 PM

Hello all,

When the DirecTV2PC was first released in BETA several years back, the MAC QUESTION
was asked and answered, NO, Never etc.

However, Some posted that if bought/found/had several MAC based tools/products
you could do what the PC product does.

Anyone recall the MAC tools or am I just confused (that could be too).

Thanks

**cfb** · 10-29-2009 08:38 PM

Bootcamp and XP on an intel based mac with a supported graphics card is the only way I know of making it work on a mac.

Its a pretty big effort to get the product going on windows. While a mac port is plausible its unlikely since the directv2pc product is largely based on cyberlinks powerdvd, and there isnt any powerdvd for the mac.

**aa9vi** · 11-02-2009 01:53 PM

I can't watch "HD protected content" (a CBS college football game I recorded in HD). Why? The SW said I needed to upgrade my 2 year old NVIDIA video card driver and I did. No help. This is annoying. I don't remember this issue on the last DirecTV2PC release. Is there a way to get around this error?

**cfb** · 11-02-2009 07:16 PM

The original beta version didnt require gpu acceleration and didnt enforce hdcp. I'm guessing that your new video card either doesnt do hdcp, you're not using hdmi or dvi to connect it to your display, or your display doesnt support hdcp.

The new directv stuff requires a video card that enforces hdcp, which is pretty much an encryption scheme that runs from the interface between the directv software and the video card, and holds that encryption all the way through to the screen. To maintain a full hdcp connection requires hdmi or dvi and an hdcp compliant tv or monitor.

This is to prevent people from intercepting the video data or recording it to a device that doesnt respect the 'do not make a copy' protections.

If you ask me, its a bad tradeoff to produce a product that tries to prevent a small percentage of people from 'stealing' content which is widely available from any number of sources and in the process disables all of the lawful users who dont have modern enough hardware...

**aa9vi** · 11-03-2009 10:29 AM

I wonder if I can delete the current version and reinstall the old one. This is BS. I just want to watch a recorded game not make illegal copies/transmissions.

**cfb** · 11-03-2009 12:51 PM

You can, i've done that. You do have to have a copy of the installer for the old one.

Directv could force an update to the client or do something in the server end to make it not connect with the older client, so its plausible they'll hose us at some point.

**This1** · 11-06-2009 06:53 PM

I have same problem
were do I gat old version

**cfb** · 11-06-2009 08:43 PM

Unless you kept an old copy, I think you're out of luck. Its been wiped from the sources I was able to get it from earlier, and requests for it are being turned down.

**This1** · 11-06-2009 09:37 PM

thanks for that cfb I will keep looking if it is just a exe file Then if someone kept it I would still be able to use it I THINK>>>>

**cfb** · 11-06-2009 10:56 PM

It was called simply "directv2pc.exe'. After that they started sticking version numbers in it. I did a google and found several pages of references, but all the download links went back to the download page. I know some other sites like dbstalk hosted the install files with permission from directv and cyberlink but I sort of doubt they still have them.