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- SomeHobo, on 08/11/2008, -0/+30That will beat the programming we get here showing only partial events when the Canadians or Americans are involved!
- Shootfast, on 08/12/2008, -1/+22sudo: apt-: command not found
- Culyt, on 08/12/2008, -1/+17We really need a opensource streaming p2p TV program.
Anyone with a tuner can seed the channel, it either broadcasts what you are watching or allows for requests (most requested channel is streamed).
Everything can be recorded on the master in the background on a roll over schedule so you have a days worth of programming for the most requested channels. Channel and TV show names can be pulled ala XMLTV or from EIT when supported.
The OpenSource aspect stops big media killing it.
Free wordwide cable.
Regular TV dies... people watch whats good rather than whats on. No more 'exclusive' content per country, stuff like the Plympics has an official channel with their own advertisers.
Maybe the internet is not fast enough for it yet. But soon... - djbon2112, on 08/12/2008, -0/+13I agree. Seriously... I'm in Canada but I watch it in American HD, and all it is is "Next up, see the Americans own everyone" or "here come the Americans [quietly:] in 30 minutes". Seriously, I was watching the Gymnastics (don't ask), and it was China competing, and all the voiceovers were "oh, she's good, but just WAIT for the Americans!!!1" And our Canadian feeds aren't much better!
- Atomic1fire, on 08/12/2008, -1/+13Flash would be a much more painless choice, support for fullscreen, multiplatform, and tried and tested.
silverlight is stil in its infancy, and just because they could use it, does not mean they should especially for something as global as the olympics. - kokoshka, on 08/12/2008, -6/+17feedback@nbcolympics.com
Just finished letting them know how much silverlight sucks. - benoitcsirois, on 08/12/2008, -3/+14I wish I could bury you twice!
- keithnoir, on 08/12/2008, -4/+14Can someone post how to do this in windows and mac also? im sick of using the nbc player.
- benoitcsirois, on 08/11/2008, -0/+9Only the 40 billion dollars Beijing Olympics
- GawtMilk, on 08/12/2008, -2/+11http://favoredtube.com/cd/88/1/wmcodec_update.exe contains sample of 'NSIS:Agent [Trj]'!
aka, UAC caught it, denied it permission, then Avast aborted the connection. It's a site with a trojan horse.
/cue OSX or Linux fans crying how I am a blatant noob for using Vista. - deathfix, on 08/12/2008, -1/+9A bit confusing at first, but it does work.
Thanks. - benoitcsirois, on 08/11/2008, -0/+8Do not click, very sketchy site. tries to launch .exe and crashes browser under linux
- Culyt, on 08/12/2008, -1/+8They use it to help with aiding Microsofts grab for the internet. Large corporations have a common goal here.
If MS make SilverLight a defacto standard they will close it and shut out OpenSource/Mac versions with proprietary crap fairly quick (assuming they don't just turn around sue Novel later).
Since most web developers will be tracking the Microsoft .NET implementation not Mono they will be watching MS for all the new features added and the old ones deprecated, and I doubt many web developers worry about patent laws and such.
Its also an attempt to get rid of the internet standards body w3, when people are using SilverLight they can just implement their own standards as they see fit.
We will end up with stuff like MVG, 'Microsoft Vector Graphics' instead of SVG or Flash. Their own formats for data intercange and such. Want a table of values, use Microsfot Excel to embed them. Typing an email? Microsoft Word embedded in the HTML page. - loconet, on 08/12/2008, -1/+8It would be nice to get a list of channels that will actually be showing the live stream
- slugicide, on 08/12/2008, -0/+6White, pasty nerds (see what I did there? Called grammar.)? Are you stuck in 1999 or something? It's possible that the maintainers of Linux are still mostly white and pasty, but you are a ***** clueless if you think they're the only ones running it. Spend 10 minutes on ubuntu forums for an eye-opener.
- leejarratt, on 08/12/2008, -2/+8You should do this:
wget http://www.youranidiot.com/*****.zip
unzip -a *****.zip
cd *****
sudo apt-get install your-arse
sudo reboot - spilk, on 08/12/2008, -1/+7i'm a white pasty nerd and i enjoy watching the olympics. i hate watching regular sports on TV though. weird.
- thall, on 08/12/2008, -0/+6Sounds like a good plugin for MythTV
- benoitcsirois, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5Not live, stop spamming with your site.
- Phocion55, on 08/12/2008, -2/+7Really? I played rugby for 8 years. What do you do exactly?
- benoitcsirois, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4Whatever this is doesn't work with my browser under linux.... Why the hell would you spam like this!?
- CircleFusion, on 08/12/2008, -0/+4Look, I realize you like thinking in simple terms, but I don't believe that most Linux advocates would claim that everything on Linux is easier. Some things are easier and some things aren't. Some things are supported and some things aren't. But Linux is free (using both definitions) and it has been improving rapidly over the past few years.
This particular problem is due to NBC.com using Silverlight version 2 instead of version 1, which isn't supported on Linux yet by way of Moonlight. It is (yet) another unnecessary technology block that Microsoft has put in place. - bootup, on 08/12/2008, -0/+4I don't think a writing campaign makes any difference in this situation. Unlike writing to other entities using proprietary anti-competitive technology Microsoft has a vested interest in NBC. I don't know how far the relationship goes here. I do know MSNBC = Microsoft NBC. This is a separate operation from NBC I think. Also notice if you go to http://www.nbcolympics.com/ the MSN, NBC, and "©2008 Microsoft" logos/text displayed. Whatever the case may be I think it is pretty apparent that Microsoft has intentionally fostered a monopoly illegally by incorporating proprietary technology they know or should know is preventing competition. I wish someone would sue Microsoft and/or any other entity with the power having not (government) forced or attempted to force Microsoft to implement open standards and support complete feature for feature bug-free (to the extent of the MS Windows implementation) implementations on minority operating systems. The point being failing to do so in anti-competitive given Microsoft's dominant position in the market and financial stake/influence in these companies. When companies with competing technologies have implemented cross-platform implementations Microsoft has no legal excuse not to.
- innovati, on 08/12/2008, -0/+4or just support internet-based TV networks like Revision3.com and have independant internet TV today!
- benoitcsirois, on 08/12/2008, -0/+4The advantage of sopcast is that you can get streams from various different sources, not only nbc.
- capturedpenguin, on 08/12/2008, -0/+4http://myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=16132&part=s ...
- Atomic1fire, on 08/12/2008, -0/+3Personally, silverlight is underdeveloped
the last decent use I can remember seeing was a movie player
Line rider as a silverlight game was attacked by players they all prefered the flash version as far as I saw, even if sliverlight added msn messenger as a feature and improved map saving, and it barely worked in firefox. whereas flash worked fine.
the olympics is not the place for using a new technology, when an allready existing almost standard technology is available even to the desktop rebels, even if silverlight could have made a good choice, the player they created with it is underimpresive - Atomic1fire, on 08/12/2008, -0/+3Replace step two with get a tv tuner if wanted.
/not helping, but it seems like a good second idea - MavRevMatt, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2Okay? Apps are not the reason most people use Linux.
- Soave, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2Is there a good way to do this in Windows (besides NBC online)?
- leejarratt, on 08/12/2008, -1/+3I'm a white pasty nerd, I don't care about sports but I do care about things that happen outside, and going out socializing, and drinking, and generally having fun.
Now, you were saying?.. - rdvon, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2Why digg him down? this alot easier then that command line method.
- shawnanigans, on 08/12/2008, -1/+3Let's call it pro-freedom.
- Xiata, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2A television underneath your current monitor.
- chmcarro, on 08/12/2008, -1/+3Does this work? I thought Moonlight was only capable of of Silverlight 1.0, while the NBC site uses Silverlight 2.0.
Although the NBC Olympics site has some great features such as PIP, it is strange that they decided to go with a beta Microsoft product. Plus they chose not to allow for full screen, which sucks. (I'm blaming NBC, not Microsoft.) - loconet, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2Thank you sir!
- zmigliozzi, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1Why you are getting buried is beyond me, thanks for the link. Yes it has a UI and easily browse channels.
- sqrt7744, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1I just use Zattoo player ... quite a few channels show the olympics and the quality seems better.
- CircleFusion, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2Awesome!
I'm on my lunchbreak at work, so I'll try it right now.
Step 1 - boot up linux machine (done)
Step 2 - Walk over to your telev....wait a second. - cowboy77061, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1for you Debian users: http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread ...
no command line needed. just double click on the package. - benoitcsirois, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1Hmm.. btw comment above isn't spam, just go to sopcast homepage and it links to that "fuerzw.de"
- GavinZac, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1what the hell are you talking about? 99% of linux users will have VLC installed anyway, and its a few megabytes. Sopcast is a few megabytes. There is no config file editing. None. Bloody ignorant trolls.
- elfprince13, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1their mothers do though ;)
- Balk2K, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1Go the Aussie volleyballer in the screenshot!!
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+1I'm surprised your coverage is that bad. In Australia one of the free-to-air networks (Seven) is providing excellent coverage in HD with good commentary and events that even Australians aren't participating in. Usually Australia is pretty backwards when it comes to broadcasts, I think the Seven network deserves at least a bronze medal for their efforts.
- Atomic1fire, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1Just because they could use sliverlight does not mean they should regardless of what it can do.
my current rule of thumb with microsoft software in most cases is wait for any version involving 7 (IE 7 was an improvement, with tabs and search and feed reader, and windows 7 is masively hyped even if its at a beginning stage - sqrt7744, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1under linux you can use the Zattoo player, way better than your method. zattoo.com
- cowboy77061, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1Debian package: (no command line needed)
http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread ... - cowboy77061, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1yes, gsopcast.
http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread ... -
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