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I recently bought an MHL adapter and HDMI cable off of Monoprice. Until the week before the Super Bowl, no one in this house had an HDTV, so I never bothered. Some time before that, I bought a Hauppauge Colossus because I was dissatisfied with the device I was using to record footage of console games. The Colossus has HDMI in, but will only accept non-encrypted streams. (Hauppauge uses the XBox360 as an example there.) I figured that since it does HDMI, I'd buy an MHL adapter and see if I can't find any Android games that are worth showing off. (Android does get a bad wrap in the gaming department, even though we did just get a Humble Indie Bundle.) I highly doubted that the thing would use an encrypted stream.
And here's the problem: while I can get HDMI mirroring to work fine on my shiny new TV, it doesn't seem to be working on my Hauppauge. The MHL adapter won't even kick my phone into dock mode, like it does on my TV. I have the capture software set to record from HDMI, but it doesn't pick up a signal. Honestly, I'm confused. I had a little trouble at first getting the thing to work on the TV (didn't realize it needed power at first, for one thing), but what got it working on my TV doesn't seem to be working for my computer. It's probably a lot to ask, and I'm probably better off e-mailing support, but I figured that it was best to cover all my bases. Any help you could provide would be great.
Done? Okay, let's get down to business.
I recently bought an MHL adapter and HDMI cable off of Monoprice. Until the week before the Super Bowl, no one in this house had an HDTV, so I never bothered. Some time before that, I bought a Hauppauge Colossus because I was dissatisfied with the device I was using to record footage of console games. The Colossus has HDMI in, but will only accept non-encrypted streams. (Hauppauge uses the XBox360 as an example there.) I figured that since it does HDMI, I'd buy an MHL adapter and see if I can't find any Android games that are worth showing off. (Android does get a bad wrap in the gaming department, even though we did just get a Humble Indie Bundle.) I highly doubted that the thing would use an encrypted stream.
And here's the problem: while I can get HDMI mirroring to work fine on my shiny new TV, it doesn't seem to be working on my Hauppauge. The MHL adapter won't even kick my phone into dock mode, like it does on my TV. I have the capture software set to record from HDMI, but it doesn't pick up a signal. Honestly, I'm confused. I had a little trouble at first getting the thing to work on the TV (didn't realize it needed power at first, for one thing), but what got it working on my TV doesn't seem to be working for my computer. It's probably a lot to ask, and I'm probably better off e-mailing support, but I figured that it was best to cover all my bases. Any help you could provide would be great.
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