Sunday, August 07, 2011

MyP2P

Had an interesting situation Sunday afternoon here. At our place AFL footy takes over on the weekend. Most weekends we get all games on either PayTV or Free To Air (FTA). Every now and again we have a problem with the Sunday mid afternoon game shown on local Channel 7.

Here in Queensland all Brisbane and Gold Coast games are shown, usually live and on FTA TV. Sometimes this means we have the Brisbane game on PayTV as well as FTA TV as was the case today. We missed all TV coverage of the Hawthorn Vs North Melbourne game.

But today it wasn't a problem, we visited the MyP2P website (HERE) From the home page you click on the "Live Sports" tab at the top and then on to "Other". We found the Hawthorn Vs North Melbourne match there and watched it live on Trish's laptop while we kept an eye on other games on PayTV.

We found if we watched the 750kbps links the laptop suffered a little bit of a problem with buffering or possibly problems processing the video (the laptop only has onboard graphics and not a separate Graphics Card).

However when we dropped it back to 500kbps the stream came through 100% clearly and with little problem even in 'full-screen'.

For some of the 'links' you have to download some software, usually a 'player' to handle a certain type of video stream. Sopcast and Veetle are a couple I have had to download and install on my PC. The link tells you what program you need. Some links don't require any additional software. The link page asks if you want to download and install the software. After doing so, you reload the website link and watch your sport!

MyP2P is a great link to store in your Bookmarks/Favorites!

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