FLASH and P2P Guide
| Guide for Beginners P2Pstation.net |
| P2P, peer to peer, a fantastic technique to get video to thousands of viewers, simply and easy. You need to connect to a channel on a software, then it will start "buffering" , which means uploading/downloading untill the stream is good enough to watch. Below we will explain easily how it works. |
| So far all applications are firstly for Windows, you could check for Mac OSX / Apple and Linux also. |
| Short guide |
| There are links to external P2P channels. Some are can be found on the Match Links directory. It's easy! |
| As you can see, channels get available hours before the start of this live event. You will find then links and you will see for which program it is. To watch the channel on a software, you need to have those applications installed. You can find them under the download section. Install the program, go to the link page and select a channel with a link on that application. This is how it works, pretty easy and if you've installed most applications you can choose many channels and links. |
| Read further for an extended guide, which will make it easier to understand: |
| How Does it work? |
| As you can see, this site is build in an easy way; |
| Channels section, to watch general internet tv channels. Match Links, to see some live sports you need, Download, to download specific p2p software for live sports. |
| Start with downloading the P2P applications |
| Hope you have got a better overview now of how it works. The second most important step is to download the P2P applications. As you've seen on a match links page, it's necessary to have the P2P applications to load the channel. |
| Go to the Download page ; install any of the clients. Well done, you got the first software on your PC now. |
| How to start a channel for a Match |
| Get back to the links page. Find your game/event and click a link. For example: Sopcast.. Sopcast player will start up itself, the channel will start buffering and after a while you get the view of the channel. The same it works with Tvu, PPmate. Easy, isn't it? So get ready to our Download page! |
| For most matches there are many channels showing a match. Sometimes there are only links for 1 specific program, so make sure you download more clients. We recommend , TVAnts , Sopcast , PPMate and TVU. Then you can view most matches, but just check the Links page; there you can see which channels are showing it and on which client. You can easily see what to download to see a match. |
| Don't use Torrent or download applications when watching. P2P depends on Upload and Download speed of all users watching. Shut down all processes that uses your internet speed. This will allow you to watch the match fast enough. Your upload is needed to get it running fine for other people. So follow these steps and you and other people are able to enjoy it without any problems . |
| Date Created: Tue Oct 31 18:35:26 2007 |
FLASH and P2P Guide