Friday, April 8, 2011

How to Watch TV Online Using VLC Media Player

Source:CallingAllGeeks
VLC media player is one of the most famous open source media players. Did you know that you can use VLC media player as a television and watch tv channels on it? In this post I will show you how you can do that with an easy tutorial. So, lets begin.
1. Open up VLC Media Player. Don’t have it installed? Download VLC player from here –> Link.
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2. See the first option on the top? “Media”. Click it and then click the second last option from the drop down box, “Streaming”.
3. After clicking “Streaming” option, a new dialog box opens up which has 4 tabs. You have to select the third one –> “Network”.
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4. Now you have opened the “Network” tab and have an empty box where you have to enter the network URL. For eg. rtsp://ss1c6.idc.mundu.tv:554/prf0/cid_4.sdp is the network URL of Aaj Tak.
5. After entering the network URL, click that downwards arrow(with the “Stream” button) and choose the “Play” option.
Thats it. Some 15-20 seconds later you will be able to watch the channel you have given the network URL for.
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For some unknown reasons, I was not able to take a perfect screenshot of the video but I hope you have understood the tutorial. Below are the network URLs of some available channels.

Aaj Tak rtsp://ss1c6.idc.mundu.tv:554/prf0/cid_4.sdp
CNBC Aawaz rtsp://ss1c6.idc.mundu.tv:554/prf1/cid_34.sdp
CNBC TV 18 rtsp://ss1c6.idc.mundu.tv:554/prf0/cid_35.sdp
Headlines Today rtsp://ss1c6.idc.mundu.tv:554/prf0/cid_7.sdp
NDTV 24×7 rtsp://ss1c6.idc.mundu.tv:554/prf0/cid_29.sdp
NDTV rtsp://ss1c6.idc.mundu.tv:554/prf0/cid_33.sdp
NDTV Profit rtsp://ss1c6.idc.mundu.tv:554/prf0/cid_31.sdp
Times Now rtsp://ss1c6.idc.mundu.tv:554/prf0/cid_2.sdp
NK News rtsp://94.75.250.53:554/rtplive/rknews.sdp
RAJ News rtsp://94.75.250.220:1935/live/rajnews2.sdp
ETV rtsp://94.75.250.53/rtplive/etv2low.sdp
Studio N rtsp://94.75.250.220:1935/live/studion2
SVBC rtsp://94.75.250.220/rtplive/svbclow
Zee Tamil rtsp://121.244.145.226:554/prf1/cid_54.sdp
Zee Kannad rtsp://121.244.145.226:554/prf1/cid_55.sdp
Zee Bangla rtsp://121.244.145.226:554/prf1/cid_52.sdp
Music Box rtsp://stream.the.sk/live/musicbox/musicbox-3m.3gp
Zoo Vision rtsp://stream.zoovision.com/live.sdp
B4u Music rtsp://217.146.95.166:554/playlist/ch12zqcif.3gp
iMusic rtsp://217.146.95.166:554/playlist/ch26yqcif.3gp
Adventure rtsp://video3.multicasttech.com/AFTVAdventure3GPP296.sdp
Horror rtsp://video2.multicasttech.com/AFTVHorror3GPP296.sdp
Comedy rtsp://video3.multicasttech.com/AFTVComedy3GPP96.sdp
Classic rtsp://video3.multicasttech.com/AFTVClassics3GPP296.sdp
Crime rtsp://video2.multicasttech.com/AFTVCrime3GPP296.sdp
Mystery rtsp://video2.multicasttech.com/AFTVMystery3GPP296.sdp
Clubbing Tv rtsp://217.146.95.166:554/playlist/ch21yqcif.3gp