Recent content by mrmt32

Unfortunately there is no public way of viewing the encrypted recordings on a PC as any software to decrypt them would have questionable legality (it requires interfacing with the sky viewing card). The old method of using the offline decoder described in the first post will no longer work as...

The only way is to take out the hard disk from inside the box and connect it to your pc.

Sorry for the triple post, but I just re-found the patent that describes tECMs if anyone is interested: _http://www.google.com/patents/US6178242.

Hmm scrap that, I just looked and recent uk recordings have tECMs that are a bit too long to fit in a transport stream packet meaning there is no way to re-insert them back into the .str file (the ts payload would be 186 bytes, bringing the total to 190; greater than the 188 byte packets), the...

Ah, that's interesting, are you also able to view recordings recorded with a different viewing card? (E.g. record an encrypted program with one card inserted & try and play it back with another). This is not possible in the UK, presumably due to the re-encryption. I found out about the tECM...

I must have subscribed to this thread a few years ago and forgot as I just got an email informing me of new posts. The offline decoder method will definitely not work any more (for all the box models I have seen) as the ECMs are removed from the *.str file (the packets are still there but each...