Question "Authentication Failed" message when playing back recorded content on an STB ?

[rickt96]

This I suppose is more related to DRM in consumer electronics.

I have a satellite TV box (typically called as STB in my country). It has recording feature to an external USB pen drive. The process is simple, hit the Record button on the remote and the live program is also recorded on the pen drive connected to the STB. It has USB 2.0 ports. The thing is when I play it back (of course on the same STB) a few files end up with "Authentication Failed" message on screen and are automatically removed.

I am clueless why it’s happening. The service provider does not have any idea. They simply import the box in my region. My suspicion in a DRM issue of some sort. Something is going wrong in the decryption of the stream??
Does anyone know why it occurs? I tried another pen drive but still it occurs randomly sometime.
Thanks.

 

[helpstar]

not all live streams allow recording

 

[rickt96]

Thanks for the input. Why did it record in the first place? There itself it should have errored out. The facility is provided by the Satellite tv service provider.

When I attempt to record on a channel number I have not subscribed to, it tells me that recording is not available for this channel.

 

[Ralston18]

Regarding:

"When I attempt to record on a channel number I have not subscribed to, it tells me that recording is not available for this channel."

Why would you expect to be allowed to record from a channel/service you are not paying (subscribed to) for?

As for any previous sucessful" records" that could have been some promotion, some error, some failure, some hack, etc..

Whatever the reason was, that reason got changed or fixed.

And Forum rules prohibit any assistance with obtaining services or authentications without paying for those services.

Closing thread to further posts.