Watching the streamer with VLC

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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.

BATC streamer viewer

John G7JTT has written a small program that saves having to configure VLC.

Download and install VLC using the link above.

Then download the following file File:BATCStreamViewer.zip

Extract it and then run BATC-StreamerViewer.exe

Select the channel you wish to watch and press OK.

Streamviewer.JPG

Configuring VLC

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 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

File:Icons.zip