Idea!!!!

[dinglinga]

there is a program on the internet called sopcast which is a p2p tv program

http://www.sopcast.com/

is there someone that can connect there tv to there pc and get SANFL footy

therefore interstaters and overseas ppl could get the game ..

i would love to do this but work all saturdays .....

any thoughts

[Coorong]

I am keen to investigate this. Somewhere I have the equipment to do that, just have to try to decipher the instructions. Give me a link?

[dinglinga]

this will help i hope

read this

http://forum.sopcast.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42

[Rik E Boy]

Go Coowrong!

regards,

REB

[Coorong]

Go Coowrong!

regards,

REB

G.F'd

Regards

Cooright

[Kahuna]

I had a bit of a play with this today,Coorong,so if you are interested in having a go,here is what I found.Equipment wise about all you will need is a tv card in your pc and a fast internet connection.
I downloaded and installed the SopCast software and tried watching a few of the channels at random.Some worked better than others and I couldn't figure out why that would be as most channels are reportedly streaming at roughly the same bitrate (348KB/s)..I watched one of the sports channels and while it did take a long time to buffer,once it started playing it was smooth and was watchable even at fullscreen.Others wouldn't play at all or were very choppy to the point of being unwatchable. I wonder if it maybe that the source of all the channels I tried appears to be China.Maybe a local source would be better.
I didn't try to install the encoder or broadcast my own stream as in the second link provided by Dinglinga as I think this has a major flaw if we are talking about a live stream of the footy.Being with Bigpond I only upload at 128kbps which I don't think would support streaming video at all.
As I understand p2p, the more peers you are downloading from the quicker it will be,however as we are talking live streaming,the number of peers will be irrelevant if the source is only 128kb/s.I don't think real time video streaming is viable without a very fat upload pipe.
The best solution I can think of for interstate or overseas SANFL fans who want to see the telecast games is for someone to record them on the pc,convert the file to divx and upload it to a binary newsgroup.
Sorry to be a wet blanket,hopefully one of the computer gurus on here can offer a solution or blow my theory out of the water.

[Dogwatcher]

Far out, with that much information Kahuna, I think YOU are a computer guru!

[giffo]

Huh??

[dinglinga]

if this could work maybe we can have the saturday game shown then for 3 hours ie 7-10pm each nite a past game !!!!

lets work together on this one