How Do You Watch NFL Football on the Road?

Turtle · Oct 8, 2012

My computer is well protected. There are no trojans, viruses, tacking cookies, devious javascript left behind, or other malware at those sites, and none of my security software or manual security checks have found anything nefarious. Others who are even more anal about that kind of thing than I am report the same. There are certainly ads at those sites, but not as many as on some places. The ads at those sites can be selectively blocked so as not to disturb the video stream. The sites are nothing more than an index of torrent streams, and if you know what you are doing you can bypass the site entirely and stream the video directly. If there was anything unsafe in anyway about either of those sites, I would not have posted them here in public where a neophyte or technotard could be harmed.

davekc · Oct 8, 2012

Question from a technotard using windows XP exploder. Don't you have to download a bunch of media players? And probably the same with ads, I would be clueless as to blocking them if they are part of a stream. (Like in the middle of the video)?

ATeam · Oct 8, 2012

Turtle said:
If there was anything unsafe in anyway about either of those sites, I would not have posted them here in public where a neophyte or technotard could be harmed.

LOL! "No technotards were harmed in the making of this post."

Turtle · Oct 8, 2012

davekc said:
Question from a technotard using windows XP exploder. Don't you have to download a bunch of media players? And probably the same with ads, I would be clueless as to blocking them if they are part of a stream. (Like in the middle of the video)?

You probably already have the media players that would be needed downloaded and installed. The Adobe Flash Player is one that you probably already have installed as a plugin. Windows Media Player is the other. Most of these are Flash streams, essentially the same things as YouTube.

There are Torrent client apps (programs) for downloading BitTorrents (P2P file sharing), and there are Torrent client apps for streaming video over BitTorrent. That's all these things are, streaming clients to steam P2P video. If you can play video already, the chances are you can use either or both of these as-is.

For the standalone apps like the FrontRowSports (StreamTorrent.exe), the video is a MMS (Microsoft Media Stream) and only requires Windows Media Player, which is already installed with Windows and is a native plugin for MSIE. Other players like VLC can be used by simply pasting the st://URL into the file field. The LeagueLineup site (which is down at the moment) also has a standalone desktop player (VipBoxSportsApp) works with all browsers and media players, as well.

StreamTorrent has ads overlayed on the stream, but you don't have to click it. Just wait until it buffers above the 30% mark and it'll go away. VipBoxSportsApp (the one I prefer, but it's 6 of one half a dozen of the other) has small popup ads that make you think you don't have a plugin or something, but again you can ignore those and simply right-click to make the video full screen and the ads will disappear. Or, you can move the mouse over the "X" in upper left (usually) of the box, but don't click it, and you'll notice a very small "x" will appear in the lower left. Click that one instead and the ad will go away. There are usually two of those. But in any case, right-clicking and going full screen disappears the ads, anyway. The thing is, if you DO click those ads and go to download the plugin or the app, it's nothing more than downloading a media player that you should already have (or wouldn't hurt to have) anyway, like VLC or MPlayer (the old yet vastly improved upon Windows Media Player).

davekc · Oct 8, 2012

Ok...cool. That is pretty easy. I actually understood all that. There is hope.

Brisco · Oct 8, 2012

davekc said:
Ok...cool. That is pretty easy. I actually understood all that. There is hope.

Hahaha.....Same Here......I understood it all too........

Thus another reason why it's just not even worth it........IMO.....Of Course.

Rocketman · Oct 8, 2012

I didn't understand any of it

But...I was able to watch the race yesterday with just a few clicks on my phone. I learned fairly quick to not touch the screen once I had the race playing. I wanted to make the video full screen, but touching anything would pull up another window. At one point I had so many open windows that the phone refused to open any more...lol. I closed em all except the race and just watched the race. It went well from there!

I was amazed at how satisfied I was watching the race on such a small screen. I am looking at getting a 10" tablet and can imagine now that watching the race on the tablet would be just fine.

Turtle · Oct 8, 2012

Brisco said:
Hahaha.....Same Here......I understood it all too........

Thus another reason why it's just not even worth it........IMO.....Of Course.

That makes no sense. If you understood it, then you understand just how simple and easy it is to do. You go to the Web site via the Web browser (or the desktop app if you choose), navigate to the event you want to watch, then click the link for that event, and sit back and watch it. You can right-click and select full-screen if you like, which really isn't very hard to do, either.

It is not worth it because it's not harder?