Live Streaming Football

[kompressaur]

cheers Shach a nice link. Hello and welcome

Is it just Livesports feeds they use Shach? The scots one is a buit jerky for me. The Irish/wales one is smooth but the scots on keeps buffering.

[shach25]

The scots stream and england has been fixed

[kompressaur]

Good man Shach and again welcome to The Daily Punt

[shach25]

Thanks, and I'm happy to be here

[shach25]

Sunday 09/10 streams:
All Italian 2nd league games: http://www.winnerim.co.il/tv.php?lan...lian_2nd_games
Bolivia - Brazil: http://www.winnerim.co.il/tv.php?lan...Bolivia-Brasil
Ciudad de Murcia - Xerez: http://www.winnerim.co.il/tv.php?lan...e_Murcia-Xerez
Levante - Recre Huelva: http://www.winnerim.co.il/tv.php?lan...e-Recre_Huelva

[kompressaur]

[kompressaur]

from http://www.football4less.com/streams/index.html

How is watching Live football possible?

There are still more then a few countries around the world where PPV has not yet been established, and football is televised for free. Broadcasts of some of the TV stations in these countries are available via video streams on the internet.

How good is the Quality of the live streams?

The quality depends on the rate at which video streams are transmitted. This quality is measured by the same units measuring how broad you internet connection is: Kb/Sec. Most streams are transmitted at a quality of between 100Kb/Sec and 400 Kb/sec, so if your connection is somewhere around 750Kbs there is no need to rush off and pay for a broader connection package. 400Kb/sec is more or less the rate at which it is possible to watch the video stream on a full screen in reasonable quality. For quality lesser than that, the size of the media player's window has to be reduced.

Sounds too good to be true!

While this method might be a good alternative to the good old TV set, there are still some problems associated with it. Millions of people around the world are trying to connect to the servers broadcasting the streams, just as you are. These servers are not designed to support such a large number of users, so the load on them in imense. The number of users each of those servers can support is limited, and sometimes even if you manage to connect to one, the high traffic might impair its functionality, in some cases causing it to crash.

What Hardware/Software do i need to watch live streams?

1. A reasonably good computer (Pentium 3 / AMD K6-II minimum).
2. A broadband internet connection of at least 0.5Mb/sec.
3. Up to date versions of Windows Media Player, Real player, and Winamp.

The streaming Technique - Buffering

The high load on servers as well as other internet related disturbances makes it hard to stream videos without any disruptions. To overcome these problems and offer a continuous broadcast, the different media players use a method called Buffering. The video streams are not shown live, and are delayed by a couple of minutes. This gives the players time to buffer the bits of video that are to be shown. This way when the broadcast is disrupted the player can go on playing for a few more seconds before it runs out of video segments to show. When streaming resumes the player will once again buffer the bits that are to come ahead.

The size of the buffer is important. If can't be too small, otherwise frequent interruptions will cause many delays. On the other hand the player has also got to show the stream and not to be solely occupied buffering it. It is recommended that the size of the buffer is set to 30 seconds.

Setting the buffer size in windows media player:

Choose Options from the Menu toolbar. Then click on the Properties tab, and set the number of seconds buffered to 30 (Figure1).

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Setting the buffer size in Real player:

Choose Preferences from the Tools tab. Then go on the left to General -> Playback settings. On the bottom right side of the screen set the number of seconds to 30 (Figure2).

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Links to streams

In the same way that we recognize Microsoft Word files by their Doc or Rtf type/extension, we can also determine that a certain URL is a link to a video stream.

Windows media player streams will usually begin with mms:// , for example: mms://cmd.terra.com.pe/cmd , Or end with .asx , for example: http://www.irib.ir/live/tv3.asx

WReal player streams will usually begin with rtsp://, for example: rtsp://helix.beotel.net/encoder/rts2.rm or end with .rm or .ram , for example: http://www.crtvg.es/reals/gal_tv.ram

Winamp streams are the easiest to recognize as they will always have a .NSV suffix , for example: http://916.14.13.81:5200/stream.nsv




Playing Streams

When you click a stream link, OS (operating system, Microsoft Windows in most cases) should automatically play it using the right player. That will happen if this type of file is associated with the right player. Those setting are usually being set when the player is first installed. However, if a file type is not associated with a player, you can either associate it yourself, or if you are not familiar enough with your OS you can manually load the stream into the player.

On WMP go to File -> Open URL (or press CTRL + U) and type/paste the stream link in the 'Open:' field in the 'Open URL' dialog box (Figure 1).

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On Real Player go to File -> Open and do the same (Figure 2)

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On winamp press CTRL+L and type/paste the stream link (Figure 3)

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<CENTER>P2P Streaming

</CENTER>As explained is our basic streams guide, all media players Buffer segments of a video stream prior to actually showing them. They will only show a segment once they are done buffering it, and while doing so they will start buffering the next segment.

On many occasions the server that functions as the stream's source is overloaded with clients asking for segments, and will not be able to satisfy this demand at a high enough rate. The clients' media players will have to stop showing the streams in order to finish buffering the missing segments, resulting in a segmented video stream.

That's where the brilliant P2P technology comes in to the rescue. It enables users to Share stream segments. By doing so is creates numerous sources that replace the overloaded servers, from which the media players can download those segments at a satisfactory rate. This process has great resemblance to P2P file sharing clients such as BITTORENT.

Since this technology relies on sharing, the more segments one uploads to other users, the more he is entitled to download segments for himself from others. For this reason it may take a few minutes before the received stream would run continuously. One has to upload to other users at a rate high enough to be able to download segments in a sufficient rate himself. Therefore it is recommended to establish a connection as early as possible before the starting time of a desired event. The more users sharing segments there are the better stream each one of them will get.

The current P2P programs are:

Coolstreaming, PPlive, PPstream, TVAnts, Sopcast, QQlive and Feidian

[kompressaur]

SATURDAY 15th OCTOBER

12:45 - Wigan Athletic vs. Newcastle Utd
Guangdong Sports / PPlive or PPStream or Tvant
World Sports / PPlive
EPL / PPlive

13:00 - National Bucharest vs. Arges
TVR1
mms://berkano.tvr.ro/tvrlive

14:30 German Game on CCTV5

15:00 - Chelsea FC vs. Bolton Wanders
EPL / PPlive

15:00 - Sunderland FC vs Manchester Utd
Dragon Tv / PPlive - DELAY

15:00 - Liverpool FC vs. Blackburn Rovers
Guangdong Sports / PPLIVE
Shanghai Sports / PPlive or PPstream- DELAY
Tianjin Sports / Tvant
World Sports / PPlive

16:15 - Nantes vs. St. Etienne
Goal tv 2 / PPstream

17:00 CET: Alaves - Vilareal on CCTV5

17:15 - Middlesbrough FC vs. Portsmouth FC
Guangdong Sports / PPLIVE
Shanghai Sports / PPlive or PPstream
Tianjin Sports / Tvant
World Sports / PPlive

18:30- PSV vs. AZ Alkmaar
Goal tv 2 / PPstream
Italian seria A:

19:00 CET: Deportivo La Coruna - Barcelona on CCTV5
German Bundisliga:

19:30 CET: Juventus - Messina on Shandong (sdtv on PPlive)
Spanish Primera Division:

[kompressaur]

SUNDAY 16th OCTOBER

12:00 - Birmingham City vs. Aston Villa
Guangdong Sports / PPlive or PPStream or Tvant
Tianjin Sports / Tvant
EPL / PPlive
World Sports / PPlive
Shanghai Sports / PPstream - DELAY

14:00 - Dundee United vs. Rangers
Goal tv 1 / TVants

14:00 CET: Italian Game on CCTV5

16:00 Manchester City vs. West Ham Utd
EPL / PPlive
World Sports / PPlive

16:00 CET: Betis - Getafe on Shandong (sdtv on PPlive)

18:15 Farul vs. Steaua Bucharest
TVR1
mms://berkano.tvr.ro/tvrlive

20:00 - Marseille vs. PSG
Goal tv 2 / TVants

[kompressaur]

heres a proggie that has a collection of links to some of the stations. It ISNT coolstreaming nor a p2p like PPLIVE etc but worth a look)
http://www.coolstreaming.it/download/fclick.php?fid=122

i'll go get links to download all the main p2p players (better quality streams)

[kompressaur]

TVAnts

http://www.tvants.com/download/TvantsSetup.exe

PPLIVE
http://www.pplive.it/download/PPLiveSetup.EXE
http://www.skydebanen.net/~raff67/coolstreamingB.zip (possibly for MAC)

PPSTREAM
http://www.ppstream.com/bin/ppstreamsetup.exe

SOPCAST
http://download.sopcast.org/download/SopCast_046.zip

QQLIVE
http://219.133.60.95:1080/qqtv/QQLive1.0Beta02.exe

Channel Guides
TVants
PPLIVE

Football Schedules
http://www.asiaplate.com/live.today.htm
http://www.football4less.com/schedules/schedules.html

[kompressaur]

if your reading this as a guest then hello. Usually i post up daily schedules in here now
http://www.thedailypunt.com/forum/ot...de-discussion/

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