Anybody remember 1seg (oneseg) the portable TV stuff? I found an old USB dongle I bought a long time ago (segclip) but can’t find software for it that will run on my mac. Thought it would be fun to play with. Any ideas?
Those things were full of DRM despite 1seg actually being unencrypted, so there was never a lot of effort to reverse engineer the stuff, especially since friio & co happened.
I did some RE’ing on old buffalo 1seg tuners (“Buffalo DH-ONE/U2”) in ~~2015~~ 2006 but that doesn’t help you since hardware is completely different.
You could install its software in a VM and try to log USB traffic etc to see whats going on, but most likely not worth the effort.
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Those things were full of DRM despite 1seg actually being unencrypted, so there was never a lot of effort to reverse engineer the stuff, especially since friio & co happened.
I did some RE’ing on old buffalo 1seg tuners (“Buffalo DH-ONE/U2”) in ~~2015~~ 2006 but that doesn’t help you since hardware is completely different.
You could install its software in a VM and try to log USB traffic etc to see whats going on, but most likely not worth the effort.
edit: wrong year
Can you just run their ancient windows software in a VM? [https://www.iodata.jp/lib/software/g/1449.htm#Windows%207](https://www.iodata.jp/lib/software/g/1449.htm#Windows%207)
Option 2 is to treat it as a radio (which it is) 😀
[https://blog.goediy.com/?p=1186](https://blog.goediy.com/?p=1186)
This assumes that the *nix driver can actually talk to it.
No idea about Mac but I’ve used a 1-seg usb dongle on Linux with a piece of software called tvheadend