tvants

[thekirbyfake]

Has anyone used tvants yet?

It's a program thingamywotsit that means you can watch all sorts of live tv over the web. Kinda like a Napster interface to let you search for the channels or genres. Been watching NBA Playoffs on it recently and it works really well as long as you have broadband.

Also has BBC, HBO, Sky etc etc.

www.tvants.com is all in Chinese but if you hover over the top of the page you get a screen tip with the .exe file.

[_dan_]

Haven't used it yet but I'm intrigued! I'll have a play when I get home. Where do you find a list of the channel servers? Is it just a case of hunting round with google?

[thekirbyfake]

Still learning myself tbh.

Found this which has links to Google translated versions of tvants.com.

[farmountain]

I have publish some translated TVants guide in google doc & spreachsheets, some actually are guides from Microsoft in how to capture and encode better, and mostly are tips from TVants advanced users. Anyway, thanks and highly appreciate to their contributions to TVants development:

TVANTS Introduction http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9
TVants official download link http://download.tvants.com/pub/tvants
TVants Channel Online listing www.plutosoftware.com/dianying/leftmenu.asp?tvtype=TVANTS&sid=2006109341008392
TVANTS in xBox http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9
TVANTS in Linux http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9
Setting up TVants tracker http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9
Search a channel under TVants official database http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9
Publishing location of a channel and publishing a channel on webpage http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9

Entering TVants Chat room http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9
Encoding Audio and Video with Windows Media Codecs http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9

Building a Windows Media Encoding Workstation http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9
Adding a new channel or streaming local video files to other TVants users http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9

Advanced Encoding Techniques with Windows Media 9 Series http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9

Guide to stream live TV using WME 9 with TVants Online p2p http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9
Trouble Shooting Tips - "No channel exists in the list. " http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9
Trouble Shooting - "Windows Media Player cannot play the file ." http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9
Remove the limit on TCP connection at... http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9
Tvant failed to open the channel with... http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9
How to add/remove channels in TVants private tracker server http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9
Youtube - watching TVants on Traditional TV - http://youtube.com/watch?v=8jP12lOYKW

TVANTS Basic User Manual ( English) http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg9

I hope they are useful to all of you. Please feel free to contact me if you have any query or you have any tips to share , enjoy

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[ThePassenger]

It mentions Peer 2 Peer and looks like either Winny or DirectConnect. I'd suggest being careful in all dealings with this place as for us here in blighty using the service could well be as legal as a visit to Piratebay.

[Road_Terrorist]

ThePassenger said:

It mentions Peer 2 Peer and looks like either Winny or DirectConnect. I'd suggest being careful in all dealings with this place as for us here in blighty using the service could well be as legal as a visit to Piratebay.

They have started cracking down on that free tv stuff recently.

[andybuk99]

if you want to watch football (soccer!) there are better ways, like tptcbn (the place that cant be named!)

[ThePassenger]

andybuk99 said:

if you want to watch football (soccer!) there are better ways, like tptcbn (the place that cant be named!)

Tortuga? Or do you mean the real under belly of the internet... NNTP?