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Sick of watching buffering live streams ?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Father_Jack_Hackett, Jan 28, 2011.

  1. Father_Jack_Hackett

    Father_Jack_Hackett New Member

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    This is a rough guide as I've been using MYP2P and Sopcast for a long time and am surprised at how many people I meet who dont know it exists or cannot get it to work.
    (I am no expert and there may be an easier way to get it to work this is the way I do it and it works fine.)

    MYP2P (live sport) - http://www.myp2p.eu/index.php?part=sports

    Sopcast - http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&so...sg=AFQjCNGk_Ifk-dkQRWkfGE7Hg38BCInPvw&cad=rja

    Install Sopcast then on match day approximately 30 mins before the game visit the live sport page (link above) click on the football and change the time (top right of page) to UK time.

    Now look for the game you want to watch and click on the arrow on the far right, on the next page look in the station columns for any link that says sopcast with a green dot next to it and hit play, the Sopcast window will open hit log in which is anonymous and once the buffer has filled and the picture appears hit the small arrow in the bottom of the window to go full screen.

    I find FSI and YES always have English commentary but recently YES can suffer with intermittent black outlines round the players.

    If you are not too bothered about the commentary and would rather have the best picture quality look for any station with the sopcast link in green that is using the highest bit-rate, I was watching Spot1 at the weekend and the bit-rate was 1450 Kbps, the picture was perfect and the players names sound the same in Russian as they do in English.
     
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  2. Magic Laudrup 11

    Magic Laudrup 11 Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    I'll give that a shot tomorrow <ok>

    Is the sopcast download virus free?
     
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  3. EDGE

    EDGE Guest

    I think the answer is no SSK
     
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  4. blackandamber

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    i tend to prefer veetle links on myp2p if they are any, think the quality tends to be better. like how you can use vlc with sopcast though, handy for having SSN on alongside it.
     
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  5. Father_Jack_Hackett

    Father_Jack_Hackett New Member

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    I also have Veetle installed but i use my laptop as a means to show the stream on my LCD TV, when i go full screen I find the picture quality of the Sopcast stream with the 1450 bitrate I mentioned in the OP much better than Veetle, each to their own. ;)
     
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  6. Father_Jack_Hackett

    Father_Jack_Hackett New Member

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    I scanned the download before i installed it and it was fine, I have also scanned my laptop many times and have never got a virus warning, install it and run a scan for peace of mind. ;)
     
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  7. Viva united

    Viva united Guest

    Sopcast is great <ok>
     
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  8. Ashen

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    yeah i have been using these streams for a good few years. Sopcast and Veetle are def the most stable. I think Veetle has the slight edge in quality and its also Mac compatible (Good news for me i just bought one :p) I havent encountered any viruses on these either, but it would def be a good idea to check for yourself :D
     
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  9. -jordan-

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    Good thread. I've used this for about a year and it's pretty good all the time.
     
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  10. Father_Jack_Hackett

    Father_Jack_Hackett New Member

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    Thank you kind Sir. :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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  11. King_Kenny

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    I just use www.atdhe.net

    Don't need to download anything, just click on the game you want to watch, usually the "vshare" streams are the best but usually they're all pretty good quality
     
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  12. Father_Jack_Hackett

    Father_Jack_Hackett New Member

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    I started out watching atdhe and that was the reason i started looking for something better, if it works for you fine but i found it buffered every few minutes and the picture quality awful, I watch Sopcast on a 40+ inch TV using my laptop to send the picture to the TV, the picture quality on the higher bitrate streams is great.
     
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  13. King_Kenny

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    That's pretty funny cos I was the opposite! Sopcast streams worked awful for me and then started using atdhe and it's perfect (most of the time)
     
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  14. Father_Jack_Hackett

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    One man's ceiling is another man's floor. :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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