Hey all I just bought a new IPTV box with the live tv for free and I was wondering if there is a way to see the network traffic of the IPTV box’s links so that I could watch tv with VLC if i don’t have access to the Box outside my house! Let me know if this is possible 😊
Use a network sniffer to track the traffic of the unit?
Which would you recommend
Yeah set-up an wireless hotspot on your laptop and run wireshark through it and open the iptv app - look for any m3u playlist url's or search the packets for multimedia protocol stuff (so stuff like .ts .m3u8 rtmp).
Do bare in mind, if the provider is using xstreamcodes, its most likely limited to be one connection at a time considering it came with the box.
Xstreamcodes urls are formatted as:
http://url:port/get.php?username=xxxx&password=xxxx&type=m3u_plus&output=ts
If you cannot find the url, I am pretty sure you can sort the packets by size in wireshark and then watch some tv, the source with the largest amount of packets is the one you need to analyse.
If your box is running some sort of Android distro, use this app .
Another way if all this fails is to run an monitoring proxy server and configure the box's network manually to connect to it.
Talk to your provider.