Stream Japanese TV on your comp w/ KeyHoleTV & TVUPlayer

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:02 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Kensei: I don't think we can 'add' channels to these streaming players, it's pretty much up to the developers. Don't take my word for it though, because I'm still quite new to the streaming player trend.

xxShanice: Yes I know, I tried TVUPlayer to watch HEY!x3 last night too, but when there wasn't any sound, I switched to KeyholeTV. Though the video/audio were out of sync most of the show, at least I didn't have to watch a silent show. xD I think it's good to have both players, in case one doesn't work, just like what happened last night. We'd never know when these streaming players might be down due to maintenance or whatever.

Dashling: Thanks for renaming the thread title, I think TVUPlayer's more popular now. (:

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:16 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Kensei, as said by untitledmelody, the availability of channels on streaming players depends on the developers or broadcasters. That being said, anyone can broadcast their own channel on TVUPlayer and KeyHoleTV by using TVUBroadcast and KeyHoleVideo. Only Fuji TV, NTV, TBS, TV Asahi are hosted on TVUPlayer right now by the Starswork Group, but perhaps they'll add TV Tokyo in the future.

Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 9:36 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

First post in this thread.. <3..

I got TVU player a few weeks ago to watch tv and for NTV.. *for obvious reasons pinch

* but I have checked my TVU player and the site today and it seems NTV is gone..

I hope it goes back up before tomorrow.. but i cannot see anything about why it is gone and my pc cannot read japanese characters so i cannot use keyhole or find out what j-channel says about it ;-;

any suggestions as where to get my fix of NTV until they sort it?

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

been using KHTV and TVU jus now and i cant find NTV.. Crying

hopefully will come back on monday becoz i wanna watch news zero!!

Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 8:04 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Damn.. wanted to watch Chibi maruko chan with my wife. The usual japanese channels are all off (NTV, Fuji, Asahi, TBS). I hope they´ll be back soon like the last times..

Here's another alternative for those of you that can and would pay real money.
http://www.jptv24.com/

It's about $50 a month and can be bought via PayPal.
You download the Java リモコン, and enter your login you created from the website. (a "SID" number) After that a list of about a dozen channels will appear and you can double-click any to watch in WMP. They give you a day to try it for free (for minutes at a time).

The quality isn't that great (about the same or a little better than TVU) on the *analog* channels, but it also carries HD digital channels which are a lot better.
It's way too expensive for me but I don't even have cable TV. I think I'd pay for this before paying for cable/satellite ever.

There is even a totally free channel you can watch without logging in. (NHK Educational Tongue

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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 2:03 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Interesting.. but TVUplayer, even with some occasional hiccups, already streams almost all those channels for free. Smile

And probably streaming those channels is illegal anyway, so I would always think twice before paying for such a service..

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 6:07 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I don't think I'm ready to spend $50 a month for jptv24, but it does look pretty nice; I was able to get the free NHK Education channel to work under linux (the java program just tries to run cmd.exe to run windows media player, so I just created a script called "cmd.exe" which runs mplayer with the url parameter). Assuming that the pay channels don't have DRM or anything, it looks a lot nicer than most American sites that let you watch TV in various ways.

Edit: Apparently jptv24 is a Chinese site and definitely illegal.

Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 11:14 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Is it possible to record stremaing video from TVU player?..only because i want to record it and watch it later.. Tongue

I'v googled around abit, and i'v tried a program called PPrecorder, but it doesn't seem to "recognise" my TVuplayer, and therefore it cannot record Whistling

Would anyone one have better solutions? or could help me out abit? lol Laugh

Thanks,

Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

thanks a lot for all Big Smile

Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

thanks sO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cool

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:21 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Thanks mystes, ill try it out...

oh...TBS seems to be gone from TVU., Suprise