Although these streams can contain any sort of media they are mostly used for watching live football matches and other events on PCs.
TVAnts pages:
www.tvants-ppstream.com
Official TVAnts page is written in chinese: tvants.com
Installing TVAnts:
Download TVAnts setup program: ( I have obtained this address from official TVAnts page.)
$wget http://88.191.73.231/~cali/tvants/TvantsSetup.exe
We need wine to run TVAnts setup program because it is a microsoft windows executable:
$sudo aptitude install wine
# if you have not already installed wine program.$wine "TvantsSetup.exe"
It will install itself, and then we will be able to exec the program:
$wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/TVAnts/Tvants.exe
or
$wine 'C:\Program Files\TVAnts\Tvants.exe'
Watching TV:
You will need at least one server at server tab.
e.g: list.tvants.com
At search tab you will be able to search for hundreds of channels.
Select some and add them to channel tab.
NOTE: Do not worry about error messages related to windows media player, we will use mplayer.
You can watch the channel you have selected runing in the console:
$mplayer -framedrop mms://localhost:16900/1
Last "1" means first channel from your selected channels list.
NOTE: Whenever you add a new channel this number increases in one, even if you delete previous unused channels.
NOTE: TVAnts is a peer to peer system so you should open 16800 port on your box to share streams you are watching with other users.
NOTE: You can also watch the tv streams using vlc instead of mplayer.