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Watch Live TV on your PC with VLC
1. How To Watch Live TV on your PC
A Tutorial
by
Siddharth Jha
www.thegeeksclub.com
2. Internet TV is something that is desired intensely today. With people getting access to high speed
broadband and 3G, Internet TV has become a possibility.
Right, so we have Internet TV but what about the drawbacks? Suppose you’re watching a match on
ESPN online, and suddenly you feel that you should check out the new ‘Dexter’ episode and then
you feel like watching ‘Supernatural’.
What do you do then? I am sure you won’t search Google wildly for live streams of these shows
with billions of popup ads in the way! We need to find a good solution, and rtmpGUI does look like
one.
rtmpGUI is a GUI version of rtmpdump, a toolkit for RTMP streams. All forms of RTMP are
supported, including rtmp://, rtmpt://, rtmpe://, rtmpte://, and rtmps://.
rtmpGUI has an extensive list of thousands of channels from almost all countries in hundreds of
languages! Everything from HBO to Discovery to Fox Sports is covered. And all these can be
streamed free from your system.
3. To configure rtmpGUI, follow these instructions.
1. Download rtmpGUI and run it. It’ll show a error message saying config file is not valid.
Ignore it
2. Options menu will open up. These is a path box for location of media player. Locate
VLC.exe using it. (If you don’t have VLC, download it from here)
3. Now it will update its channel list. It’ll take some time, leave it as it is for few minutes.
When done, click on any channel you would like to watch. VLC will launch and play it live
4. You can also record channels. Right click and click record. A command line window will
open up. The recorded file will be in the app folder itself. Rename the recorded file to
file.flv to play it.
5. You can also add channels if you know their rtmp links
4. All in one, rtmpGUI is a solid package for any TV and Internet junkie. Currently, it is exclusive for
Windows.
Download it!(It’s free and ad-free)
My Rating: 3.5*