Share Destiny your own way (HDCP Capture) (DBO)

by Beorn , <End of Failed Timeline>, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 22:08 (3990 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Don't feel bad: nobody can do this regardless of what setup they have. The only option is to have a hardware decoder, and then capture the decoded audio, or else set your PS3/PS4 to only output 6 or 8 channel LPCM. (XBox 360 cannot do more than two channels of LPCM. Does anybody know about the Xbox One?)

Even then, you either need a multichannel firewire / usb audio device to capture separately, or a capture card that takes more than 2 channels over HDMI. Both are expensive.

Something you may be able to do on the cheap is to buy 3 speaker wire to RCA adapters, and use them to get the 6 analog outs off of any random decoder (or just buy RCA cables if your decoder already has 6 RCA outs), then buy a few cheap stereo audio capture devices and aggregate them as one in the OS X MIDI utility. I have not tried this, but it theoretically should work and save you hundreds of dollars.

I don't feel bad, I just wish it were an option. I'm sort of surprised that NOBODY has that solution, but maybe there's a licensing issue there or something. And no, I don't want it badly enough to rig that setup together. ;-)

As for XBO, the audio output options changed with the March update, and I'm not sure if we can choose 6-channel PCM like we can on PS3/4 (and I can't check because I'm away from my Xbox for a week).