Comments on: Hacking Sasktel Max Interactive?

By: devvyn

devvyn — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:52:20 +0000

From what I've heard more recently, many of the channels are now (or will be very soon) encrypted, which is why customers had to trade in their old boxes for the new Motorola ones. As such, it's probably not feasible to receive them on a computer. In theory, though, the box is nothing more than a low-power computer running Windows CE Embedded. If you wanted to experiment, you could put your computer on the same network switch as your box and use a network packet inspector such as Wireshark. There are two problems. One is you have to tell the Max service to change channels, and the other is you have to intercept the traffic. Best of luck! You could probably capture a decoded stream from an analogue source such as component, composite, or S-video, though.

By: justin

justin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:15:00 +0000

so I already have a sasktel max in my house hooked up to a tv, is it at all possible for me to use watch sasktel max on my computer?

By: devvyn

devvyn — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:23:52 +0000

A brief update (didn’t deserve its own post):

Rumours are circulating (from industry sources) that unencrypted signals are only going to homes with registered boxes that are non-HD. Hi-def signals are scrambled and I for one don’t feel like wading into that puddle of mud.

By: devvyn

devvyn — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:18:44 +0000

I put the project on the back burner. To do it properly I’d have to put my computer on the same subnet and use WireShark to sniff out the details of the traffic. Since the network and Max service aren’t mine, I don’t want to step on anyone’s toes if something goes wrong.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:53:26 +0000

Any luck?

By: Adam Florizone

Adam Florizone — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:41:02 +0000

Maybe it wont work as explained because the site has “scams” in the doucment path? o_O

By: devvyn

devvyn — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:52:03 +0000

I was hoping someone had done the legwork recently. I found someone who listed the IPs and port numbers for the channels but VLC didn’t display video while receiving the stream. You’re probably right about the encoding.

http://www.hackcanada.com/canadian/scams/sasktelmax.txt

By: Adam Florizone

Adam Florizone — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:55:38 +0000

MPEG-TS over UDP (and maybe Encrypted). Make a bridge using another ether nic (USB nic?), get Mac version of Wireshark to dump and analyze packets that flows through your Mac. Use myTheater to view streams, if compatible, and might be able to decrypt using pluging for free PPV?

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