Watching the streamer with VLC
Since the demise of Flash at the end of 2020 you will find your standard web browser has about 15 seconds delay on a streamed signal. VLC enables you to watch a flash stream with ~ 2 seconds delay.
BATC streamer viewer
John G7JTT has written a small program that saves having to configure VLC.
Download and install VLC from Download VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.en-GB.html -
Then download the following file File:BATCStreamViewerv0.2.zip
Extract it and then run BATC-StreamerViewer.exe
Select the channel you wish to watch and press OK.
If you tick the "stay on top" box you can open up your web browser to the same streaming page and then drag the viewer on top of the normal video window. When you use the chat the viewer will remain visible. Don't forget to turn the sound down on the web browser of you will get a 15-second echo!
Configuring VLC
Simply follow these instructions:
Download VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.en-GB.html -
Go to "Media" > "open network stream":
Enter the following into the network URL box:
rtmp://rtmp.batc.org.uk/live/xxxxx - where xxxx is the name of the stream you want to watch.
Press play.
To create a desktop shortcut in Windows
Firstly create a shortcut to VLC on your desktop, then right click on the shortcut and add the path to your favourite channel at the of the line in the "Target" window.
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC64\vlc.exe" rtmp://rtmp.batc.org.uk/live/gb3sq
by adding -f it will open in full screen
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC64\vlc.exe" -f rtmp://rtmp.batc.org.uk/live/gb3sq
You can also change the icon to differentiate between streams, here are a few I use