This article describes the possibilities of PC TV, which simply means to watch tv on the pc using PC TV programs. Have you encountered a situation like the following before? Great the next match of my favorite sports team will not be shown on free tv. Actually it will not be shown at all in my country, except for satellite of course. If you encounter situations like this one and always thought there would be no other solution than to watch boring live tickers on internet sites, then you have come to the right place that brings you the solution called PC TV.
I will describe three freeware programs that let you connect to channels that stream tv and especially live sports events. This includes all major european football (soccer) leagues, champions league, uefa cup, espn, wrestling, national team matches, boxing matches aso.
You also find regular tv stations like mtv and custom stations like gamers tv there. On with the PC TV programs.
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PC TV
All you need to watch pc tv is a computer with the latest windows media player and / or real player. A broadband connection is desired for best results. All three PC TV programs to watch TV on the PC have been produced in Asia making it hard to read the websites. Those websites offer tv program lists among other information.
First, let us take a look at some options in media player and real player:
Start the media player, make sure you use the latest version. Right-Click and select Options from the menu. Click on Performance and Change the Buffer Size of Content to 30 seconds.
In real player you select Tools -> Preferences and click on the General -> Playback Settings. The setting Buffer up to 30 seconds is at the bottom of this window.
Stream formats:
mms:// and .asx open with windows media player
rtsp:// and .rm / .ram open with real player
Starting Streams manually:
Sometimes you need to start streams manually. Use the stream formats information to figure out the program to use.
On windows media player choose File -> Open Url or the shortcut ctrl + u
On real player choose File -> Open
PC TV Programs
This is a list of free PC TV programs that can be used to view TV on PC.
Download from the above link, unzip, start. A channel list will be displayed. Double-click a channel and windows media player should start and begin buffering and displaying.
Just download and run the installation script on pplive. Its all in English, no need to worry. You need the pplive channel list for it, it does not come with a loaded list.
Download from the above location. This one has an installation script that is unfortunately producing lots of gibberish. The buttons are designed like in every other windows installation script. (left button, choose a directory, 3x middle button). The Channel list is on the left, you see the channel name, the quality of the stream in Kb per second and the users connected to the channel.
If I had to choose one of them I?d defiantly choose ppStream which has the best interface and good user rates and a nice overall stream quality.
Popular PC TV Channels:
| channel | content | language |
| CCTV5 | european soccer, other sport events. | Asian ? |
| ESPN | All major us leagues, european soccer + more | English |
| Games Tv (ppstream) | professional game play, tournaments, mags | Asian ? |
| Soccer Demo | soccer | Asian ? |
| Sport Italia | Italian Sports Channel | Italians |
Additional Information:
Live Football Streams Schedule
More P2P TV Tools:
Coolstreaming
QLive
TvAnts
Using PC TV programs on your computer has never been easier than in today’s Internet. Users can pick a wide variety of applications that bring pc tv to their computer without having to pay a dime.
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well, the gibberish is because your average american computer cant read chinese script
although some i can read most r just gibberish. if u download “north star” you will be able to read it in real chinese( for the chinese viewers out there)
static thanks for the information, I think I probably need to install a chinese language set which is available from microsoft for them to display correctly.
A tip would be to run a translator on the site like I did with the pplive link. (for websites only of course)
ive blogged this and linked your website, if you dont mind. :)
Can someone write this in a format that makes sense?
I’m a computer tech and still can’t make heads or tails
out of any of this!
Steve: You need to install a chinese language pack from the microsoft site
Which program are you trying to install ?
Or just use winamp’s media library to watch hundreds of streams
can someone please explain to me how i use a chinese language pack to view the text in the programs in english?
i have installed several of the programs but cant understand what any of them are saying because they are in chinese!
are there any sites that english commentators? all i seem to find are channels that are in chinese
I tried all 3. Don’t expect to watch anything in English from the default settings. If there is a way to find Ameican tv, that would be cool, but I wasn’t able to find any. You’ll need to have “Chinese” installed in Windows. (When I installed pplive, Windows asked for my XP installation cd and it installed the Chinese language pack automatically) But that will only give you true Chinese characters, it won’t help you read anything in English, so forget about changing any program settings, cuz you won’t be able to read the menus. The exception is Sopcast. I WAS able to install this in English and read all the menus. Looks like that one will allow you to stream media somehow, but I didn’t get into it before writing this. The technology is cool. Streaming is pretty good most of the time. Picture quality is OK. Not great. Not great at all at full screen. What about rebroadcasting laws and all that? If anyone know where/how to get streams in English, please post it.
8. ESPN on Sopcast is english for instance
9. you are right, the chinese language pack only displays the menu entries in correct chinese letters but does not translate them to english. see 8 for english channel
you can use google translate to view the websites translated. (enought to figure out whats going on)
Looks like all the channels on PPstream are broacast in Chinese.So there’s no point of installing the chinese language pack and even using this program since we don’t understand a word of what they say.
just mention this to those who bother to have a try of Ppstrem.
Hmmm…i tried installing pplive 1.9.5, but it didnt go too far since my AV detected a virus. http://tinypic.com/ixbo8m.jpg
I’ve got a list going at
http://www.projectxnetwork.net/index.php?s=streamdrive as well.
http://www.streamdrive.com also has a big list of feeds as well but not p2p.
Looking to watch all NFL games on my computer, any suggestions?
go to myp2p and you can watch all NFLgames.
Check out this website listing all P2PTV software
http://www.p2ptvguide.tk
I GOT A PROBLEM.i dont know how to download ppstream .i just wanttowatchsport
is there any other website where you can watch basketball or soccer
can someone help me ? please!
i downloaded pplive but there wasntsnt any chanells in it.i dont know why
because it does not come with a loaded channel list, here is one
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.pplive.com%2Fweb%2Fhtml%2Fnewversion__catof_zOU000.html&langpair=zh-CN%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
i am getting rid of cable and sat.. but i need to watch all my shows but i want them free
can i watch the tele on the internet free
wher can you watch basketball or soccer on the net for free
go to the www.rts.co.yu
you can watch live tv from serbia and monteneegro
you can watch live soccer basketball all the events
you can watch english premier league and italian seria a]
I logged onto www.rts.co.yu but couldn’t get any further. Can you give me some more steps on how I can watch live coverage (I’m new to this kind of thing)
U should add TVKoo to ur list: http://www.tvkoo.com
It even streams three Norwegian channels:D
Hi Everybody
I’m just about to know how to get CNBC US and NBC Channels on one
or more of the above softwares, Could I be able to get a help to watch them
because they ‘re just doing a wonderful broadcasts, thank you for your help and please don’t miss to reply….
Hey everybody, if you want to watch news, soccer, basketball. WWE wreslingue,
and movies, just go to www.asiaplate.com. They have softwares that you can
download and watch everything for free. Make sure you have nice time okay!
thnks my frnd
Just clicked on the sopcast link and it automatically closed my browser windows with work I have been doing all afternoon, also windows which included items which i was wanting to read. The sites I had open had come from links on other sotes so i dont know the web address. Very unhappy and now got to start and afternoons work all over again thanks to a dodgy link posted on this site. Thank You Very @@@@@@@@ Much.
do any of these programs give access to the channel ESPN U? All your help is much appreciated.