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- From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: DAT and SCMS, some info
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.181629.27707@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:16:29 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.164847.24403@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <1992Nov17.002951.9577@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> <27653@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
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- In article <27653@oasys.dt.navy.mil>,
- curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) writes:
- |>
- |>What happens when an SCMS DAT deck is sent a digital source that's
- |>marked "unrestricted"? Does it create an unrestricted copy or
- |>does it treat it the same as the analog input - i.e marking it with
- |>the code that allows one digital copy?
-
- SCMS code 00 is "unrestricted". A SCMS-compliant DAT deck will allow
- recording and the output DAT will have SCMS code 00.
-
- |>If so, are they any outboard A/D converts that produce a data stream
- |>with the SCMS code set to unrestricted? I guess that even if these do
- |>exist, they will cost more than a pro (i.e., non SCMS) DAT deck so it's
- |>not really an option for someone that wants to make their own
- |>unrestricted recordings.
-
- I think this is what a lot of the real pros use.
-
- |>I have a pre SCMS DAT deck. What happens when I feed the digital
- |>output of this deck to an SCMS deck? Does it look like an unrestricted
- |>source?
-
- It depends on the bits that are in the digital data stream. Some pre-SCMS DATs
- appear to some SCMS-compliant DATs as "digital from an unknown source" and so
- the output is given SCMS code of 11 (same as for analog input).
-
- |>Is the coding of the SCMS data such that the receiving deck can tell
- |>that there is "no SCMS code" in the data stream and treat the input
- |>differently? Or is was the SCMS code just assigned to bits that
- |>were always set to a constant value (like 0) in older equipment?
-
- I think there's a bit in the ID field that says "this is a SCMS-compliant data
- stream". A SCMS deck that sees this in the ID then will expect SCMS codes in
- the subcode 6 field. If the data stream either doesn't contain the SCMS ID or
- doesn't have a subcode 6, then the receiving deck can detect this. In that
- case, it's supposed to record a SCMS code of 11.
-
- --PSW
-