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Japanese TV on Internet - Thora - 2010-11-22
Asriel Wrote:I've found that I can save it, but I'm not sure how their software works, or if you could schedule things to be downloaded.The 3rd party viewing software Wist provides is called mixtreamer. As Asriel mentions, you don't have to use it for viewing. It can be used to record: http://www.mixtreamer.com/record.htm. Future recordings are set either by entering the channel and time or by using an interactive TV guide. Mixtreamer currently uses the テレビ王国 guide (iEPG): http://tv.so-net.ne.jp/guest/pc/portal.action. That seems like a good feature.
Unfortunately, Mixtreamer is only supported on 32bit systems It doesn't seem to work on Win7, 64bit, so I don't know what format it saves in. The site used the word "download", but I think they means recording a stream. I read a complaint that any glitch in the signal stops the recording.
Someone posted another streaming video recorder a while back. I don't recall whether you could schedule recordings in advance or use it with an interactive TV guide.
Can anyone explain to me this part of the agreement concerning a copy protection feature in the software:
ソフトウェアに設定されているコピープロテクトにより、複製、公開、送信、頒布、譲渡、貸与、使用許諾、転載、再利用しないことに同意するものとします。
Edit: just the ソフトウェアに設定されているコピープロテクトにより part.
Japanese TV on Internet - Thora - 2010-11-22
rich_f:
I received my confirmation email (with password) immediately. The email has a link the site's "My account" area and all you do is enter your user name (email) and the password (which you can later change). We must cancel before 11 pm (EST) on Wed to avoid payment. [edit: the cancellation deadline is actually 11 pm Thurs, and the paid month would start Friday]
In terms of picture quality, Winamp says it's 512x288 YV12 @ 431 kbps. No idea what YV12 is or whether it would be different with a different player or if I bypassed my ancient router. I suppose I should try it wired (15 Mbps)? The site says minimum requirement is 500 kbps, but the FAQ recommends 3 Mbps. (?) The audio and video were never uninterrupted, but the picture isn't very sharp and has some trouble with movement.
I don't know much about this stuff, but if there's something I can do check formats or quality, just let me know.
I can't see myself paying $30/s for that picture quality. TV Japan (NHK plus a few other network programs) costs $17/m here, cable PVR is much more reliable, and one can find better quality versions of many othe network TV programs, some with Japanese subs. But I see the value of novelty and variety...
btw Did you watch Ryomaden (or any other NHK drama)? I loved (most of) the drama Jin, so I thought I'd try to find Ryomaden.
Japanese TV on Internet - Asriel - 2010-11-22
I had to actually call them to have them send me the email. It didn't get in my spam filter, like they thought...it just didn't send in the first place.
Here's the info from Quicktime when playing Fuji TV:
Format: Windows Media Video 9 Standard, 512 x 288, Millions
Windows Media Audio 9 Standard*, Stereo, 44.100 kHz
FPS: 15.97 (although this is different for different channels)
Data Size: 1.1MB
Data Rate: 28.24 kbits/s (this is probably different for different channels too)
Current Size: 512 x 288 pixels (Actual)
OK, data size just gets bigger the more you watch it, which makes sense, because you can rewind/save/etc...
Data Rate is now at 667.54kbits/s
And here's just a random screenshot I took right now:
http://oi55.tinypic.com/8x7q53.jpg
Japanese TV on Internet - Asriel - 2010-11-22
Yeah, $30/mo is definitely pretty steep. Especially for something like this.
Unfortunately, I don't have any alternatives right now. It's either take it, or don't watch TV...which probably wouldn't hurt.
Japanese TV on Internet - rich_f - 2010-11-22
Thanks for all of the info about wist. I think I'll just stick with keyhole tv for now. It's kind of crappy, but at least it's free and crappy. That + TV-J will keep me happy enough.
@Thora I would have gotten more into Ryoumaden if I had had the time to do it, and the DVR space for it. It's a really good series, and I like the guy who plays Ryouma, but I just missed too many episodes and got too far behind. I'll probably just wait for next year's Taiga and try to get into that, depending. Not sure what it's going to be yet, as I haven't watched too much TV lately. (Stupid JLPT.)
One thing TV-J does that's really useful is run a subbed version of the Taiga series on Saturdays at 5pm EST. It's usually a few episodes behind, but that's good enough to check your understanding of what's going on. The Taiga takes a lot of effort to keep up with. 52 weeks. ugh. Feels more like a job than a series.
TV-J/NHK has a lot of other good dramas... it's kind of hit-and-miss some seasons. I like the current renzoku, "Teppan." It's a bit soap-opera-y, but it's only 15 min/day. Nothing else really struck my fancy, and I missed the first 2 eps of 20th Century Boys, dangit, so that boat has sailed.
I usually wind up watching a lot of other random stuff, like "Gatten," "Keitai O-giri" (Forget what it's really called... the show where everyone texts in funny answers to silly questions... sort of like Match Game), and "Cool Japan," (aka, listen to foreigners ooh and aaah about AMAZING Japanese rice cookers.) "Cool Japan" is interesting sometimes, but it can also be kind of annoying, too... but that's another post for another time.
There's a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting, I'm sure. "Bura Tamori" is pretty good. Tamori wanders around Tokyo trying to find random ancient places on old Edo maps, so that's kind of interesting if you like history.
Japanese TV on Internet - Asriel - 2010-11-29
I'm not sure if it makes a big difference to anyone, but I just figured out that I can stream wist.tv to my xbox. It's an old modded xbox using xbmc, which can open video streams. Makes me wonder if a 360 could do it natively? I haven't tried all of them, but some of the streams don't like to let the video work (probably different codecs)
It looks a lot better on TV than it does on my computer, although when there's a lot of movement it's a little blurry, and the refresh rate is a little bit slower than normal TV.
Still, it's pretty awesome.
Japanese TV on Internet - mu5#i - 2011-01-29
If anyone is interested, then I created a java client to WIST-TV, actually in Groovy. But they are the same. A little more development work is needed to get a 'packagable' program, but if you have experience in Java environment, I can post the code in git or someplace like that. The program was written using netBeans on the Mac, so it works with snow leopard out of the box via quicktime, or vlc. Earlier versions of OSX require a special mpeg plugin to get WIST streams to work (within quicktime).
Let me know if you are interested!
Japanese TV on Internet - Asriel - 2011-01-30
What exactly does it do?
I have no problem getting the streams to open in quicktime/vlc/whatever I want.
Japanese TV on Internet - EuPcsl - 2011-02-23
Maybe it's not Japanese TV on streaming but I just have found this awesome website with Japanese commercials in HD ready to download: http://jpcmhd.tumblr.com/
Japanese TV on Internet - ta12121 - 2011-02-23
Pcsl88 Wrote:Maybe it's not Japanese TV on streaming but I just have found this awesome website with Japanese commercials in HD ready to download: http://jpcmhd.tumblr.com/cool
Japanese TV on Internet - gyuujuice - 2011-02-23
http://pages.tvunetworks.com/
I downloaded this program on my Mac and it works! (Gasp!)
Right now there is only one channel but I don't mind right now ;3 -- it seems it depends on what is being watched.
Japanese TV on Internet - BooBooQ88 - 2011-02-24
gyuujuice Wrote:http://pages.tvunetworks.com/Nice find. Looks like there are 2 other channels that are not online right now (TV Tokyo and some movie channel)
I downloaded this program on my Mac and it works! (Gasp!)
Right now there is only one channel but I don't mind right now ;3 -- it seems it depends on what is being watched.
Japanese TV on Internet - gyuujuice - 2011-02-24
BooBooQ88 Wrote:Yeah, but I watched something called 稲川の四季, 祭り and the ending of some other show. Travel channel (equivalent) me thinks. I was hoping for something on the lines of discovery or the food network but I'll take what I can get. >gyuujuice Wrote:http://pages.tvunetworks.com/Nice find. Looks like there are 2 other channels that are not online right now (TV Tokyo and some movie channel)
I downloaded this program on my Mac and it works! (Gasp!)
Right now there is only one channel but I don't mind right now ;3 -- it seems it depends on what is being watched.
Japanese TV on Internet - Bokusenou - 2011-02-24
Hmm, wwitv is pretty good when it comes to online streams, though there isn't much diversity to Japanese online streams in the first place...
Japanese TV on Internet - rswarsaw - 2011-03-05
Correct me if i'm wrong... but seems like there is still no good solution here.
Wist seems to be getting mixed reviews.
KeyHole is miserable quality...
any other solutions out there that seem to be working for people?
Japanese TV on Internet - bombpersons - 2011-03-08
rswarsaw Wrote:Correct me if i'm wrong... but seems like there is still no good solution here.I've been searching for a while and found this thread on d-addicts.
Wist seems to be getting mixed reviews.
KeyHole is miserable quality...
any other solutions out there that seem to be working for people?
http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_p1370495.htm#1370495
d-addicts Wrote:borama - rtsp/mms streams with embedded player ( http://borama.nayana.com/top.htm )the last two links work great =) loads of channels, TBS, TV Tokyo, Fuji TV, etc (Animax works too =))
JP-TV - rtsp/mms streams with html based application ( http://www.jptv365.tk/jp-tv.exe )
ITV - rtsp/mms streams with html based application ( http://www.itvitv.com/wltv.exe )
Also there is this which is beyond awesome. http://www.multiupload.com/UOQOGZ8MGS
Open the jar file corresponding to the channel you want to watch, and then you can select any hour of the day and watch what was on at that time =) So you can watch something decent even if there is nothing good on live tv =) I don't know where this came from, so it might not last long though =/
Japanese TV on Internet - jettyke - 2011-03-08
@bombpersons
Wow, it's true.
Can you recommend me any channels?
I don't have any idea where to start.
Japanese TV on Internet - bombpersons - 2011-03-08
jettyke Wrote:@bombpersonsIf I can't find anything on that isn't news I just put animax on since stuff like dragonball, detective conan and keroro gunsou is always on. For some reason I tend to watch TBS more. No idea why.
Wow, it's true.
Can you recommend me any channels?
I don't have any idea where to start.
They tend to show a lot of dubbed stuff on WOWOW
Japanese TV on Internet - dizmox - 2011-03-08
rswarsaw Wrote:Correct me if i'm wrong... but seems like there is still no good solution here.I just plan on setting up a slingbox in my girlfriend's house after we move in here.
Wist seems to be getting mixed reviews.
KeyHole is miserable quality...
any other solutions out there that seem to be working for people?
Japanese TV on Internet - meiko452 - 2011-03-08
Here is another option:
Viki
http://www.viki.com/
Its not T.V. per se, but there are Japanese shows up there and this is key: with some content, it is possible to run both English and Japanese subtitles concurrently. A plug-in is required for some of the content, but not all. Enjoy.
Japanese TV on Internet - Bokusenou - 2011-03-09
meiko452 Wrote:Here is another option:Looks pretty nice, though it seems to only have drama/anime/movies like some other sites, while the main reason I like to watch streaming TV is for non-fiction content...I wish there was a site like Viki for those types of snows...
Viki
http://www.viki.com/
Its not T.V. per se, but there are Japanese shows up there and this is key: with some content, it is possible to run both English and Japanese subtitles concurrently. A plug-in is required for some of the content, but not all. Enjoy.
Japanese TV on Internet - Rina - 2011-03-13
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tbstv
Japanese TV on Internet - rich_f - 2011-03-13
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-gtv
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv
for now, anyway.
Japanese TV on Internet - Bokusenou - 2011-11-13
Freshverse.com is back up! Only one stream though, but it's still better quality than KeyholeTV!
Japanese TV on Internet - oosuoosu - 2011-12-15
Hi all,
New to this forum but just want to put out a software I have been using to watch japanese TV. The software is called NTKTV,. Its a java software you run ... some one hack for it so you can watch at least most of the basic kanto channel. Check it out at http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_56753_840.htm . This is not live but you can download by the hour per tv station. This is useful as your not in front of your pc all the time to catch some of your fav shows. Now just waiting for hulu japan to be available on XMBC or someother program.