[toejam]

Update: just did some testing and the smil encryption is still the same.

 hulu's xml encryption of the playlist seems to have remained constant over the years.

The playlist xml contains the paths to the video urls.  Back at the time that the above post was written, the playlist xml was retrieved via a request to s.hulu.com/select, something like shown here: https://web.archive.org/web/201503240102...0/b5HfkMc0

Now, the playlist xml for the modern dash playlist is retrieved via a request to s.hulu.com/playlist.

But the data returned in both cases (the old 'select' url and the new 'playlist' url) is not in plain text.

1. Is there a standalone python script that can take the encoded data returned from a playlist xml and convert it to text?  Probably anything that existed to decode the old select xml playlists years ago would still work on today's xml playlists.  I just can't even find any code for the old system.

2. Is the xml encryption of the playlist the same or different than the encryption of the smi format subtitles?  I have found python decryption code for the smi format subtitiles which still works today, but it appears to be different than the encryption used for the playlist xml.

Note that none of the above references to encryption have anything to do with the actual content.  It is only about the xmls that an add-on would use to construct usable data for the site.  This is long before any content would be played and has nothing to do with the drm.

So, if anybody has any references to code that was used to decode the "smil" back in the day, please point me to it.  The old add-ons probably had it, but searching today has turned up nothing.