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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.
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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.
  
VLC enables you to watch a flash stream with ~ 2 seconds delay.
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Simply follow these instructions:
  
 
Download VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.en-GB.html -  
 
Download VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.en-GB.html -  
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[[File:VLC stream channel.JPG|400px]]
 
[[File:VLC stream channel.JPG|400px]]
  
Enter the following in to the network URL box
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Enter the following in to the network URL box:
  
rtmp://rtmp.batc.org.uk/live/xxxxx - where xxxx is the name of the stream you want to watch.
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'''rtmp://rtmp.batc.org.uk/live/xxxxx''' - where xxxx is the name of the stream you want to watch.
  
 
Press play.
 
Press play.

Revision as of 18:35, 9 March 2021

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.

Simply follow these instructions:

Download VLC https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.en-GB.html -

Go to "Media" > "open network stream":

VLC stream channel.JPG

Enter the following in to 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.