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Does DirecTV2PC work on DisplayPort-only Notebooks?
As many of you may know, many business-oriented notebook providers are moving away from HDMI/DVI and towards DisplayPort (a VESA interface that is fully HDCP compliant) as the digital display output connector of choice.
Such is the case with my Dell Mobile Precision M4500. It has two display connection -- DisplayPort and VGA.
Here's the problem. Despite the increasing popularity of DisplayPort and the fact that it is fully HDCP-compliant, DirecTV2PC will not work on this notebook. Rather, it throws the following error when a recorded program is started:
"Unknown Output Connector. Supported connectors are 1. DVI 2. HDMI 3. Japanese D terminal output 4. Component video 5. S video 6. composite video 7. Analog RGB."
The really strange thing is that it throws this error even though I am not trying to run it to an external monitor (rather, I am just trying to play it on the laptop's native display with no external monitor connected at all).
The hardware is more than capable or running DirecTV2PC -- Core i7 720QM, 4 GB DDR3-1333 RAM, NVIDA Quadro FX 880M 1GB DDR2 Video Card -- so I can only assume is is throwing this error because none of those 7 connectors are on my computer (rather, again, the only connectors are DisplayPort and VGA).
Has anyone else experienced this?
Any thoughts on other possible causes of the error?
Does anyone have any suggestions for a workaround?
Thanks in advance!
--Mav
Such is the case with my Dell Mobile Precision M4500. It has two display connection -- DisplayPort and VGA.
Here's the problem. Despite the increasing popularity of DisplayPort and the fact that it is fully HDCP-compliant, DirecTV2PC will not work on this notebook. Rather, it throws the following error when a recorded program is started:
"Unknown Output Connector. Supported connectors are 1. DVI 2. HDMI 3. Japanese D terminal output 4. Component video 5. S video 6. composite video 7. Analog RGB."
The really strange thing is that it throws this error even though I am not trying to run it to an external monitor (rather, I am just trying to play it on the laptop's native display with no external monitor connected at all).
The hardware is more than capable or running DirecTV2PC -- Core i7 720QM, 4 GB DDR3-1333 RAM, NVIDA Quadro FX 880M 1GB DDR2 Video Card -- so I can only assume is is throwing this error because none of those 7 connectors are on my computer (rather, again, the only connectors are DisplayPort and VGA).
Has anyone else experienced this?
Any thoughts on other possible causes of the error?
Does anyone have any suggestions for a workaround?
Thanks in advance!
--Mav
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