COOLSTREAMING GUIDE
Coolstreaming is a program which you install on your computer. This program allows you to watch sports channels from around the world.
It works in a similar way to bit-torrent. The more people watching, the better the streams.
The image on here is usually very good quality but the video must be left for about 5-15 minutes to allow the stream to settle.
How to set up
Download coolstreaming from here
wmp is fine with coolstreaming but sope people like vlc
Download VLC player from here
VLC is another media player (similar to WMP) but it works really well with coolstreaming.
Install them both
Open coolstreaming
In cool streaming change the preferences (2nd icon from right shown as a hand with a piece of paper) so that the application to open asf files reads C:-Program Files-VideoLAN-VLC-vlc.exe
You will have a list of channels, scroll down and double click on ESPN and wait for it to open up in vlc player
Wait for 10 to 15 mins for the stream to sort itself out
You need a connection higher than the stream quality-bit rate. For example for the espn link to work (280k) u need a higher internet connection than that. Test sports (440k) will need a 1mb broadband or higher to work.
ENGLISH COMMENTRY NOW AVAILABLE ON ESPN Double click on the speaker icon in your system tray, move all the way to the right and hey presto
FAQ
1. What is Coolstreaming? CoolStreaming is a application layer streaming media transportation software. It lets viewers exchange buffer with each other. If you have experience with BitTorrent, you'll easily understand the advantage in dong this.
2. How to use it? download the CoolStreaming, install coolstreaming, wait for a couple of minutes for channel list to appear. double click a channel to select that channel, wait for coolstreaming to buffer data. Wait for another couple of minutes. Media player or Realplayer will automaticly popup and play the channel.
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3. Why it's not working? If you can not display channel list, check if there is firewall in use.(If your firewall only allow common port, CoolStreaming need to connect to non-common port.) If there is message say your time is wrong, check your time and timezone setup. If have to use proxy for all your network operation, you might not be able use CoolStreaming now. No proxy support for now. If there is message for popup player but no player was poped up, you can manually start Windows Media Player or Real Player. Open the link in the but no player popup, check if there is a media player process running, kill wmplayer.exe, click play button on CoolStreaming again. If windows media player poped up but say link error, check if IE had proxy setup, disable proxy on IE. If windows media player poped up but say link error, check if you can reach If correctly poped up windows media player-Rea Player, but can not play the program, please check if your player is the latest version. We need Windoes Media Player 9.0 and Real Player 10.0(Both software are freely available.)
4. Why program quality is bad? There are several reasons (1) In the begining, usually CoolStreaming is looking for better source stream suppliers, wait for 5-10 Minutes, it would be better. (2) If the quality is still not good after 10 minutes, please check status say "buffering xx%", it this number is low, that indicats your network condition is bad. Your network connection can not afford this high rate program, but you can still choose low bit rate program(e.g. radio). the source is bad. (4) Quality column shows the average quality of all users. For example if the Quality is 95%, it means average can get 95% data. So you can determin quality from this number.(If the source quality is bad, users won't get a high quality number.)
5. Can I add more channels? If you want to add channel, you need to install CoolStreaming Server. But not all users have the ablity to install channel server. If you have good network connection(For example, you are the network admin or you are providing streaming media service), then you propably can install CoolStreaming Server. See, installation.
6. Why some channels could disapear? Usually, the reason is coolStreaming Server is down or the source of the Channel had problem. The servers are not dedicated to CoolStreaming, and the streaming source could be contaminated. If you can provide stable source or server, please contact me. Your help would be highly appreciated by all the viewers.
7. How to watch CoolStreaming in a strict controled Intranet? If there is strict firewall to restrict network ports, it is difficult for CoolStreaming to work. No good solution yet. Hope to solve this problem in the near future.
8. How to help CoolStreaming? You can (1) Provide stable streaming source, setup CoolStreaming Server. (2) provide information about available stable link of streaming source(better with relativly low bitrate, more use can view it) (3) tell more people about CoolStreaming
9. Will CoolStreaming hurt harddisk? No. Some BitTorrent software will read and write harddisk frequently, some user worried that CollStreaming have this problem. Actually CoolStreaming use main memory to buffer and exchange data with very few harddisk operation. Some user find reduced free harddisk space is because some media player(Real Player, etc.) will store temperary files on harddisk. Those temp file will be cleaned when the player closes.
10. Why there is delay on CoolStreaming? There is about 1 minute local buffer. The total delay would be about 2 player.
11. Which port is used by CoolStreaming? How to set firewall? CoolStreaming use port larger than 1024. So the best way is to open all the who outside of firewall. Please set firewall to allow connection to larger than 1024 ports.
12. I still have question, how to ask,
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Ok then try this program:
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I know very little about it, but it seems easy enough to use, I've got BBC News 24 running at 300kbps unbuffered. I've also got the good old ESPN running, took three times mind, but a boost for the weekend as Charlton vs Chelsea (15:00) and Villa vs Tottenham (17:15) are on it tomorrow. Also Liverpool vs Man Utd (12:00), Blackburn vs Newcastle (14:00) and Man City vs Bolton (16:00) on sunday are on it.
Download instructions:
Click on a link above to download, and wait for the page to load. When it does, click on 'Free' and wait 25 seconds, then click on the file name (it will download as a zip file. Extract it and it automatically runs, but probably won't create a desktop icon. Where it's extracted the will be a folder called "SopCast", open it and click on the SopCat icon.
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Install
And right click on icon in bottom right and left click on 3 chinese word up from bottom and it goes to English
Saturday 15:00 BST Charlton Athletic v Chelsea SOPCAST ESPN Shaanxi Sports PPLIVE Guangdong Sports Shanghai Sports On Regards The Sports PPSTREAM ESPN Guangdong Sports Shaanxi Sports TV ANTS Tianjin Sports
17:15 BST Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur SOPCAST ESPN PPSTREAM ESPN PPLIVE Guangdong On Regards The Sports
Sunday 12:00 BST: Liverpool vs Man Utd PPSTREAM Guangdong PPLIVE ESPN Guangdong On Regards The Sport Shandong Sports SOPCAST ESPN Shanxi Sports ALSO ON,
14:00 BST: Blackburn vs Newcastle PPSTREAM Guangdong PPLIVE ESPN Guangdong On Regards The Sports SOPCAST ESPN Shanxi Sports
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14:00 BST: Hibs vs Celtic PPSTREAM Goal TV1 QQLIVE Goal TV1
16:00 BST: Man city vs Bolton PPLIVE ESPN SOPCAST ESPN
