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Guoguodi Wrote:At long last, I think there is a reliable solution to the (free) streaming of Japanese TV.

I present to you: SopCast.
http://www.sopcast.com/download/

Once installed (be careful to disable the choice for the toolbar during installation), replace your favorites.xml, located where you installed SopCast, with this: http://pastebin.com/mQQTSY39

Once I installed this I instantly cancelled my $30/month subscription to wist.tv.
This (SopCast with Japanese channels) seems to only recently have taken off. Follow the relevant 2ch threads for more info: http://anago.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/software/1347364613/

Quality is very watchable (sooo much better than KeyHoleTV), and there's an option to use an external media player like VLC/WMP/MPC so you can customize the aspect ratio from the default 4:3. SopCast is based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol, similar in principle to things like torrents -- so in general, the more people that use it and contribute bandwidth to the swarm, the better the overall health of the stream.

Using it the past few days, I have experienced zero stuttering/dropout problems with watching Japanese channels (which are listed in the favorites.xml I posted above). It contains pretty much every channel available on terrestrial Japanese TV, and the quality is better than wist.tv, NTKTV and other paid subscription services.

Hey guys. I just updated to the latest SopCast and I lost my list of Japanese channels. Came here to re-download and it appears the list has been removed from pastebin. Can anyone reupload the list somewhere or e-mail to me and I can upload it?

EDIT: Nevermind. RIP Sopcast

s0apgun Wrote:Hey guys. I just updated to the latest SopCast and I lost my list of Japanese channels. Came here to re-download and it appears the list has been removed from pastebin. Can anyone reupload the list somewhere or e-mail to me and I can upload it?

Your a bit late; all of the Japanese SopCast channels are gone. That's why the most recent talk is all about fengyunzhibo.

sholum Wrote:

s0apgun Wrote:Hey guys. I just updated to the latest SopCast and I lost my list of Japanese channels. Came here to re-download and it appears the list has been removed from pastebin. Can anyone reupload the list somewhere or e-mail to me and I can upload it?

Your a bit late; all of the Japanese SopCast channels are gone. That's why the most recent talk is all about fengyunzhibo.

SopCast has been dead and dusted since pretty much October 1st last year, so you are a little late And yes, I didn't fail to notice the irony of that post now: "At long last, I think there is a reliable solution to the (free) streaming of Japanese TV."

The FengyunZhibo site mentioned on previous pages of this thread is a lot better in many ways than SopCast was, so I'd stick with that. I'm not willing to bet how long it'll last, but whoever is behind running it seems to know what they're doing as the channels have been available since the start of this year and they haven't been shut down yet.

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Cool! I'm having a terrible time trying to stream from this website right now though. Tried different browser but nothing yet. Hope this will go away. :/

s0apgun Wrote:Cool! I'm having a terrible time trying to stream from this website right now though. Tried different browser but nothing yet. Hope this will go away. :/

I have difficulties with the streams too. I figure that it must be my internet or my network, since the stream will only go for a couple of seconds before freezing.
If you're using a wireless connection, try a wired connection instead. I've been meaning to try this as well, but...

Are either of you using Macs by any chance? I couldn't get the streams to play on a Mac no matter what I did, but it works beautifully on Windows.

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Nope, using Windows 7 on a laptop. I have pretty good internet connection but I am on wifi. I'm actually gonna try it on my mac but I'd prefer to use my laptop to hook up to my HDMI.

s0apgun Wrote:Nope, using Windows 7 on a laptop. I have pretty good internet connection but I am on wifi. I'm actually gonna try it on my mac but I'd prefer to use my laptop to hook up to my HDMI.

Hmm, I'm using a Vista desktop connected to a router. Some of the streams buffer more often than others, but overall it works fine. Are you at least seeing the preview images for the streams on this page?

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Yep! Usually when I open a channel, it will take a long time to load and then it shows up but will be intermittent and go back to the loading circle again. As if its a slow connection issue but I can stream quite easily anywhere else. I'm going to try it with the ethernet connection to see if it changes anything.

Edit: It appears to be working fine on my wifi now... maybe last night was a bad time for the websites server. Hopefully it stays this way! Thanks.

Yeah, I'm using Windows 7 on a fairly decent connection (probably as good as it gets in the US), but the router only supports wireless b and g. So that's why I thought it might be the network speed.
I'm going to try a hard line with my laptop, which runs Lupu, to see if that makes any difference.

As for the streams, they start just fine; the problem is that it stops to buffer a few times and eventually refuses to play. I don't know if it's actually buffering or if it's stuck like if the connection timed out.

It was working fine for me too, managed to spend like 3 hours watching it with no interruptions on Wifi, but yesterday and today had zero luck. If it does play, it stops all the time. Cannot really go wired so I just hope my Wifi sorts itself out.

Dunno if repost, but just found this:
http://www.olweb.tv/tv-tokyo
Also has other channels such as:
http://www.olweb.tv/anime-tv

Well, its been quiet on here for a while.. but it seems like the olweb site still works, and theres a fair few channels to choose from, but it buffers quite a lot, it's pretty slow.

I stumbled on this forum trying to find a way to watch Jap TV online, naturally as you do... I wish I had back in 2012! I was using bloody Keyhole TV the whole time DX it sucked.

http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/space/japan.htm + Chromecast + Google Cast = a pretty awesome way to have Japanese stations streamed to a TV. Just load up the channel you want, cast the tab, fullscreen it, and you're good to go (casted tabs send their audio straight to the Chromecast, and you can still have audio sources from other tabs played on the host computer).

Edit: You need Canary or Dev Channel Chrome in order to fullscreen-cast while being able to do other things.

Just can't close Chrome, and you probably need ideal network conditions for it to work flawlessly.

Can't we contact the dev of fengyunzhibo android app, to ask him to implement chromecast suppport?

It looks like NIJI TV (http://www.myniji.tv) is back! I missed using it...

Bokusenou Wrote:It looks like NIJI TV (http://www.myniji.tv) is back! I missed using it...

Sweet! fengyunzhibo hasn't been holding a connection for me lately. Maybe now I can watch Japanese TV again. Thanks!

hirata Wrote:

Bokusenou Wrote:It looks like NIJI TV (http://www.myniji.tv) is back! I missed using it...

Sweet! fengyunzhibo hasn't been holding a connection for me lately. Maybe now I can watch Japanese TV again. Thanks!

Yeah, at least for me, the stations come in much more consistently, so long as I don't put a bunch of load on my network (kind of obvious, but it still needs to be said).

The sound isn't very good though. Not terrible, mind you, but it reminds me of KeyholeTV if it actually played consistently. It's not that big of a deal, to be honest, since it comes in so cleanly, but it's still inferior (I think it's lacking in range, but I'm not a sound technician, so I'm not sure).

Anyway, it's really nice, so far.

I have managed to run the program on Mac via Wine but I cannot see any stations or how to play something?

Is this normal:
http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u341/...222548.png

Success. You have to register, btw, here: http://www.appnnn.com/en/register.html And then log in.

Looks good so far. Only one sports channel though, and it's down at the moment. But the quality on the channels that work is really good. About what 480p is on youtube, I'd say.

vebaev Wrote:I have managed to run the program on Mac via Wine but I cannot see any stations or how to play something?

Is this normal:
http://i518.photobucket.com/albums/u341/...222548.png

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img842/7774/nijiabc.png
That's what it's supposed to look like, though it has less channels now.

I realized why the streams come in so nicely: they actually have a decent buffer on them. My internet was acting up and so I ran out of stream; instead of simply stopping forever, it went back a couple of minutes and started playing again, but without sound.

Also, sound seems to come in a separate stream; between the above experience (I guess sound isn't cached or something) and a couple of instances of sound or video lag, it's pretty clear.
(Or I don't know what I'm talking about.)

Anyway, it's still working well, it's just a matter of being around when something decent is playing.

Did someone succeed to run it somehow on mac?

Espionage724 Wrote:http://www.fengyunzhibo.com/space/japan.htm + Chromecast + Google Cast = a pretty awesome way to have Japanese stations streamed to a TV...

Just a quick proof-of-concept: http://youtu.be/BQ9HCF2pjQw

You could also probably set-up something similar with NIJI, but you'd probably need to cast the desktop instead of a tab (if I understand how it works anyway; uses WMP?)

Hi all

I used NTKTV regularly on the PC, but would love to know whether there's a way to get it working on the android tablet?

via xbmc or just via a link?

thanks in advance