[mythtv-users] AT&T U-Verse / MythTV ?

[Tony Brummett]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Eric Giblock<eric.giblock at denora.com> wrote:
> I know this topic was posted a bunch in the past, but wondering if anyone
> recently got myth tv working with the stream that comes from the at&t uverse
> 2wire unit ?

It's (probably) not possible.  All the important communication between
the STBs, the 2wire box and the headend is encrypted.

I looked into it a few months ago.  When you change the channel on the
STB, it sends a control message of some kind to the headend and a
moment later the stream of UDP packets with the video data starts up.
Each time you change the channel, the destination address for those
UDP packets changes.  Neither mplayer or vlc were able to play the
video or audio.  Occasionally, mplayer would think the stream was
h.264 video and AAC audio, but still wouldn't display anything - it's
all encrypted.

One interesting detail is that each STB sends an HTTP Notify packet in
the clear to a common multicast address every few seconds, with
details about which stream (channel) it's listening to at that moment.

-- Tony