How to: Resolving HDCP causing black screens

During various meetings you may have a leader that needs to show a video or presentation. While the Church's new video systems will forward HDCP copy protection inside the building, that does not mean it will play nice with capture devices for streaming meetings to other buildings and often results in a black screen. There is an inexpensive option for taking care of this on resolutions up to 1080p. It does not work on 4K video.

Run your video through a non-HDCP compliant HDMI splitter before inserting it into the building video system. You'll know if you're successful if the Rostrum HDCP light on the video switcher in the A/V rack does not light up. In the past I've used OREI splitters but they are now HDCP compliant. (the old ones will still work) Look through the reviews for any splitter to see if people have been successful using them to strip HDCP. The most common use is for recording video gaming.

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See the posting where I discuss splitters. The model that I use is the U9 ViewHD 1 in 4 Out HDMI 2.0 18 Gbps 1x4 Splitter with Automatic 4K to 1080P Downscaler Model UHD1x4S

I have purchased 7 of these over the years. It is my go to device for dealing with HDCP issues.

Key learnings are to use output port 1 for the resolution/connection that you would like the HDCP negotiation to pay attention to. For example, if you Stake Center rack has an HDMI input then if you have challenges plug output port 1 into a plain HD monitor (1920x1024) and plug output port 4 into the rack input. When the initial connection is made the source device negotiates the connection to be the monitors resolution and then uses the same output format to the Extron switch. Your milage will vary. Sometimes we just use it in line to address HDCP issues. Experiment.