1. English Audio Commentary (Sports events only)
Watching foreign channels can sometimes be frustrating when you dont understand the language. Some channels have english subtitles which makes things easier, but those are not available during sports events. But if you can find an audio commentary stream for the event you are watching, you can sinchronize it to the video stream.
What you have to do is pause the audio stream at the occurance of a certain event (most convinient would be when a game starts), and start playing it again when you see it taking place on the video stream.
All of that is being said assuming that the audio stream precedes the video stream, but that is ussualy the case as video streams demand longer buffering periods than audio streams.
Where do i find audio streams?
Sport events are ussually broadcasted on national or local radio stations so try try those. Try our
radio streams page.
Note that the BBC radio streams are intended for UK users only. You can get around that limitation by using proxies. Proxy servers allow users to connect to remote servers indirectly. The remote server will see the IP of the proxy server. So when you use a UK based proxy it will enable you to get the stream. You can find a lists of free proxies by googling the term "free proxy".
More about proxies here.
2. Improving Visual Quality
The picture quality of most video streams is far from what we get on TV. PixelFusion is a plugin designed to enhance the picture quality of Windows Media Player streams.
It can be found here
3. Watching streams on a TV
Most people prefer watching Movies, TV shows, sports etc on a television set rather than on the pc screen. Almost all graphic adaptors are equipped with a TV-out feature that allows you to plug your pc to a TV or VCR. The TV-out socket comes either in the form of
S-Video or
RCA
(picture 1) connections (or both). Most TV sets come equipped with
RCA (picture 2) and
Scart
(picture 3) input sockets. if the cable you got with your graphic adaptor (picture 4) does not match the kind your TV has you can use an adaptor (picture 5). You can find these online or on the street for pennies.
If you dont want all the hussle associatd with cables, or if the TV set is too far from you computer (a cable longer than 10 meters may result in a reduced quality of the video signal) you might want to consider buying a wireless transmitor. Google "A/V sender" to find out more about these devices.
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| Figure 1: RCA and S-Video TVout sockets |
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| Figure 2: TV RCA input socket |
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| Figure 3: TV Scart input socket |
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| Figure 4: RCA (left) and Scart connectors |
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| Figure 5: RCA/S-Video - Scart adaptor |
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