- added detection for unsupported .SDX with encrypted/compressed content

source/ChanSort.Loader.SatcoDX/SatcoDxPlugin.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-using ChanSort.Api;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Text;
+using ChanSort.Api;
 
 namespace ChanSort.Loader.SatcoDX
 {
@@ -10,6 +12,14 @@ namespace ChanSort.Loader.SatcoDX
 
     public SerializerBase CreateSerializer(string inputFile)
     {
+      var buffer = new byte[7];
+      using (var strm = new FileStream(inputFile, FileMode.Open))
+      {
+        var len = strm.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
+        if (len != buffer.Length || Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buffer, 0, len) != "SATCODX")
+          return null;
+      }
+
       return new Serializer(inputFile);
     }
   }

source/ChanSort.Loader.Unsupported/UnsupportedPlugin.cs

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-using System.IO;
+using System.CodeDom;
+using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
 using ChanSort.Api;
 
 namespace ChanSort.Loader.Unsupported
@@ -12,18 +14,21 @@ namespace ChanSort.Loader.Unsupported
     public string PluginName => "Unsupported";
     public string FileFilter => "*";
 
+    private string path;
     private string dir;
     private string name;
     private string ext;
 
     public SerializerBase CreateSerializer(string inputFile)
     {
+      path = inputFile;
       dir = Path.GetDirectoryName(inputFile);
       name = Path.GetFileName(inputFile).ToLowerInvariant();
       ext = Path.GetExtension(name);
 
       CheckForMediaTekAndroidBin();
       CheckForVestelEncryptedDb();
+      CheckForSdxEncrypted();
       
       throw LoaderException.TryNext("File is not on the list of explicitly unsupported formats");
     }
@@ -68,5 +73,22 @@ namespace ChanSort.Loader.Unsupported
     }
     #endregion
 
+    #region CheckForSdxEncrypted()
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Not sure if these .sdx files are also from SatcoDX, but they seem to have a 64 byte file header and then either encrypted or
+    /// compressed data that can't be analyzed. One such file came from a Xoro 
+    /// </summary>
+    private void CheckForSdxEncrypted()
+    {
+      using var strm = new FileStream(this.path, FileMode.Open);
+      var buffer = new byte[24];
+      var len = strm.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
+      if (len < buffer.Length)
+        return;
+      var str = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
+      if (str.StartsWith("CDX\0MSTDatabaseV"))
+        throw LoaderException.Fail("Encrypted SDX channel lists (used by Xoro and others) can't be read/modified with ChanSort.");
+    }
+    #endregion
   }
 }

source/changelog.md

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 ChanSort Change Log 
 ===================
 
-2023-01-14
+2023-01-15
 - added support for Vision EDGE 4K set-top-box (DVB-S only)
 - TCL: separate lists for DVB-C/T/S, each starting at 1
 - TCL: cleaned up "Hide" vs "Skip"
+- SDX: showing message when an unsupported, encrypted .sdx file is opened (e.g. from Xoro STB)
 
 2023-01-12
 - TCL: fixed upload failure due to incorrect checksum when DtvData.db was larger than 307200 bytes