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- | ====== Guide: Tips and Tricks to Viewing the Funday Pawpet Show ====== | ||
- | ===== VLC under Linux/ | ||
- | * Under Tools -> Preferences... | ||
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- | (Simple Mode) | ||
- | - select 'Input and Codecs' | ||
- | - check 'Use RTP over RTSP (TCP)' | ||
- | - Click Save | ||
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- | (Advanced Mode) | ||
- | - Input/ | ||
- | - check 'Use RTP over RTSP (TCP)' | ||
- | - Click Save | ||
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- | ==== Explanation (a.k.a. tech-talk) ==== | ||
- | Normally VLC will try to establish a UDP based stream, which would be better for network utilization and performance but isn't supported by most firewalls/ | ||
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- | ==== Alternative way of opening the stream ==== | ||
- | If your version of VLC will not play the stream despite the settings mentioned above, you might get it to work with the following tweak: | ||
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- | - go to media -> convert/ | ||
- | - use the stream URL as input and click convert/ | ||
- | - now check 'play locally' | ||
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- | This will " | ||
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- | ===== QuickTime under Windows XP/Vista ===== | ||
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- | ** Important! ** As of April 5th 2009 the MPEG-streams don't seem to work with older QuickTime versions. Version 7.6 has been verified to work. | ||
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- | Issue: Even though the stream isn't http QuickTime in Win32 uses the http proxy internet option of the OS to connect and fails if it isn't correct. | ||
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- | If your network has a requirement for an HTTP proxy, you have to verify the internet connection settings. QuickTime uses the OS defined proxy settings and will fail if the proxy doesn' | ||
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- | In Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Connections -> Click "LAN settings" | ||
- | Verify that your HTTP proxy is set correctly (i.e. as your ISP told you) and - as an alternative - try again without the proxy by clearing the "Use a proxy server..." | ||
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- | ===== Using Livestreamer to watch Furstream in VLC (Windows) ===== | ||
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- | - Install Livestreamer [[http:// | ||
- | - It should find VLC automatically. | ||
- | - Open Notepad. | ||
- | - Paste the following WITHOUT QUOTES < | ||
- | - Save it on the Desktop as FPS.bat. (Make sure it's FPS.bat, not FPS.bat.txt) | ||
- | - When ready to watch FPS, double click " |
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