Bandwidth-conscious broadcasters have a new way to distribute their live video streams. A group of Uruguay-based P2P researchers recently released the first English-language version of their open-source P2P streaming application, GoalBit. The application, which is based on a BitTorrent-like architecture, aims to compete with P2P streaming services like PPLive and PPStream by giving anyone looking to distribute their own live video programming a way to do so.

GoalBit, which is available for Windows and Linux, currently features just a handful of Uruguay’s TV networks streaming at fairly low bitrates. But the service looks promising nonetheless, and its extensive documentation could be intriguing to anyone interested in P2P streaming.

GoalBit uses a hybrid approach that combines the best of the BitTorrent world, with features from the likes of P2P networks such as Gnutella and KaZaA’s FastTrack network. Its network features a tracker similar to the one used by BitTorrent clients, but it also makes use of so-called super-peers. These are computers with fat pipes that help to distribute the initial signal until it trickles down to users with ordinary DSL connections and limited upload speeds. Super-peers can be run either by the broadcasters themselves, or self-selected based on the connectivity of the individual end user. The idea of this multilayer approach is to prevent too many direct connections to the broadcaster while at the same time making the system scalable.

Another interesting aspect of GoalBit is that channel lists are distributed in the form of small files similar to .torrent files in the world of BitTorrent. Broadcasters simply have to create such a file with the help of the GoalBit client, announce their stream with a GoalBit tracker and upload the file to a web server — and they’re ready to stream to the world. Well, that’s the theory anyway. The developers of GoalBit state that this so-called “Broadcast Yourself” functionality is still experimental, and I haven’t actually tested it myself.

GoalBit is competing with a wide array of P2P streaming applications, most of which are proprietary. Particularly successful examples are PPLive, which claims up to 30 million active users per month, and PPStream, which boasted 1 billion video viewing hours per month a good year ago. Another player in the open-source P2P streaming field is P2P Next, a European project funded with 14 million euros ($20.4 million) by the European Union. P2P Next demonstrated a streaming client dubbed SwarmPlayer in the summer of 2008 and has since been busy developing and testing a set-top-box implementation.

Companies like PPLIve and PPStream cater primarily to users in China as well as Chinese-speaking audiences worldwide, but P2P streaming apps have also always been popular with sports fans looking for their latest soccer or Olympics fix — a fact that was clearly not lost on the GoalBit makers, as is evidenced by the choice of name.

lost in transit.

caught the show with sister on PPS yesterday. the female lead was really really beautiful and the storyline was pretty sweet although things like this will never happen in real life. quite a good catch for a romance comedy which can also make you tear. ((:

OB paper today was terrible, blanked out and had no clues at all how to answer a couple of questions but, i’m glad it’s over. however, was totally braindead after the paper ended and i haven’t been able to do my BB. hopefully the following two days will be productive because i’ve to fight the war on Thursday! one more week to endure…

how can a wrong emotion feels so right?

will you sacrifice your life for love?

watched Painted Skin on PPS with mummy and sis last night. wasn’t really paying attention to the show initially because i was catching Hot Shot on my laptop at the same time. but after awhile, i just felt that i HAD TO pause my show to concentrate on the former. although the ending was pretty lame, there was this really touching part about the wife’s love for the husband which made me tear. it wasn’t a REALLY awesome show but it’s not too bad a watch (compared to Max Payne).

anyways, haven’t been productive this week for mugging. guess it’s just me. when it comes to studies, it seems like i can only do last minute work. out of a sudden, i feel like i’m so ahead of time hence, i’m slacking off just a little. but i probably have to force myself to start understanding MR which i still have no freaking idea what it’s all about.

met sis in town in the evening to shop but didn’t really get myself anything. saw this really gorgeous green top at forever21 but there was only a size L. *pulls hair* to think it’s been like eons since i last fell so much in love with something i’m willing to spend on.. and i really really REALLY love that top! )):

on a side note, i was randomly in my own world of thoughts while travelling alone and i came to realise how interesting it is to think back about how i got to know all my friends around me. it’s like a different story to each and every single individual; from strangers to acquaintance, friends to buddies, anything to everything.. it’s just so amazing! the first impressions and the first conversations, when and how you said hi, what’s your name?,  how it all started from there. like, it could be just a few months ago that you were completely strangers, not knowing one another’s existence. then, in a blink of the eye, everyone’s hanging out together, talking about things you’d never imagined yourself to be talking about and stuffs like that. at times, you’d even feel incomplete without their existence. well, people come people go. guess it’s just part of life, an add-on to life.. but they really DO spice up your lives. *grins* every little footprint counts, they stay in the memories and are very appreciated..

and i still wonder how.

Windows only: PPstream is a peer-to-peer (P2P, or if you must, PP) video client that allows for live streaming and sharing of television and movies from China. Catch favorites such as CCTV (中国中央电视台) channels 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 17, movies of questionable legality and plenty of Olympics. The PP streams offer a golden opportunity to soak up immerse yourself in dip your toe into watch a deluge torrent bunch of TV from China. Sorry.

Direct link to installer here. Instructions here.

today is sunday.. another episode of hot shot (twdrama) will be shown in taiwan in just a few minutes.. i’m planning to watch it live (currently, hot shot is on its third episode and it’s shown in taiwan every sundays, 10 pm) using the ppstream software.. i haven’t tried it before so it’s a new experience for me.. btw, english subbed version of hot shot ep 1 is on its way out according to ifs, i’m so very excited..

This post contains parts of a 2 hour interview I did with Tangos Chan from China Web2.0 Review. Among others I asked him about his views on the globalization of Chinese Internet companies, the future of the Chinese Internet market, and the role of VCs.

Pieter-Paul Walraven: What are your thoughts on Chinese Internet companies going abroad?

Tangos Chan: Actually most of the Chinese companies will not consider a globalization strategy so far because the Chinese market is huge. So if they can serve this market well they could become very big companies. Look at for example Baidu and Tencent. Of course there is also the language barrier. I think an English language service in the US such as Google is automatically a global service because it serves all the English speaking people. In China companies are bound to be a Chinese service.

So I think there a really 2 kinds of services that will consider to go abroad. Firstly it is the very big companies such as Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. These companies will start to consider to get more users in overseas countries. I think most of these companies will start from some developing countries. Or some eastern Asian countries such as Japan or maybe they are also considering Korea. I think Tencent actually has a dedicated team to learn from new applications in Korea and copy it to Tencent.

Secondly, another kind of service is the new start-ups that have been established by returnees. Or established by someone who has worked for a big international company such as Microsoft or Google. So someone who has international market experience. These kinds of people will launch their service with an English version from the first day.

You should check out a web service called Mojiti. I am not sure whether this start-up is still alive now, it is actually established by one of the ex-Microsoft guys. The service is about video, you can make subtitles or add text on a video. The service was acquired by Hulu, a video-site launched by NBC and News Corp. So the whole Mojiti team is working for Hulu now. I think Hulu just thought that the Mojiti technology was good so they have acquired the team for their technology background. I think these kinds of services will consider a global entry from their first day.

PPW: So do you think that there are enough innovative ideas that stand a chance internationally?

Tangos: I think p2p video streaming technology is quite good in China. So services as PPLive and PPStream. They are leading in the global market. I heard that France Telecom is currently partnering with a Chinese company in order to try to implement the technology in the French market. So I think that there is innovation in the Chinese market but it is still only a small percentage. Most of the Chinese companies just copy ideas from countries overseas, they copy many ideas from the Silicon Valley. But I think that for p2p video-streaming China is quite innovative.

Also IM bots is something that China is good at. So you chat with a robot with your IM service. There is a company called Xiaoi that is the most well known IM bot in China. They are the official partner of Windows Live Messenger in China. So if you want to check the weather you just ask a question to the bot. They received plenty of VC funding, I believe IDT has invested in them. I have blogged about this a while ago.
Actually in China there are also some companies that offer IM bots where you can order your lunch. You can just type in what kind of food you want for lunch and maybe half an hour later it is delivered. So you just ad this bot as a contact in your MSN. So then you just type in what you want to order.

Also gaming companies like Shanda and Perfect World are going abroad. I believe Perfect World is besides their operations in the US also starting in Europe. Tencent is also cooperating with AOL to provide casual games. I think for online games, casual games will have a greater chance to succeed overseas when compared to MMO’s. This is because Asian and Western companies have very different cultures among MMORPG games. So I think that games that are very popular in China or in Korea might not be as popular in western countries. Also in China over 60% of the netizens play online games and I think that percentage in the States is much lower.

PPW: Do people in lower tier cities play games more often than in metropolitan cities?

Tangos: Because the currently available statistics are only on everybody that plays online games we have no idea about how many of them are playing casual games and how many are playing MMO games. I think in China more and more people are starting to play online casual games. So if we consider the whole landscape including MMO and casual games I don’t think that percentage will drop.

According to a recent report the percentage of users who play online games in urban cities is even higher in rural areas. It is about 10% higher. It is a report about Chinese Internet users under the age of 25. I think that the numbers for urban cities are about over 63% and in rural areas it is only about 50%.

PPW: Why is this? I would expect differently because in urban areas people have alternatives for entertainment.

Tangos: According to the report the usage rate of almost all-online services in rural areas is lower than urban areas. Only 2 services share a similar percentage of urban and rural. One is online chatting so QQ. And the other is music download. For the rest of the services the usage rate is higher for urban areas. I think that these numbers are not about how much time users put into online games, but it is about how many of them have played online games. So maybe in urban areas people play short games during their break at work. But also maybe for the people in rural areas, they mainly use the Internet for QQ. Therefore they have similar usage rates compared to urban cities.

PPW: How should companies cope with the rather skewed user base of China; sophisticated users in the eastern metropolitan areas and less experienced netizens in the more rural areas in the west?

Tangos: Actually I think that some companies just focus on one kind of user. For example the SN website called 51.com. I think they are the MySpace of China. They target users in 2nd or 3rd tier cities. I believe they have only a low percentage of users in the big cities. Xiaonei is more targeted on university students so they don’t have many members in the more rural big cities.

But it is not easy to cover all the users across China. It also depends on your service because if you are a search engine like Baidu it is not really a problem because everyone uses a search engine in more or less the same way. For SN websites it is different. Maybe for video-sites it is not really a big deal either because in both urban and rural areas people will watch dramas.

PPW: And what about MMO companies, is the skewed situation a problem for them?

Tangos: I don’t think the big gaming companies will have a problem. Maybe the only problem is whether the Internet cafés in rural areas are able to run the games or not. But for users I don’t think it is a big problem. If you look at the figures, for Internet users younger than 18 years old, the percentage of them that has ever played online games is over 76%. So this is the highest group of users that play online games. So when people grow older the percentage decreases.

PPW: Do you think Social Networks have a lifecycle, like games have?

Tangos: I think the challenge is whether Facebook can provide enough applications or new services, which can attract users. Because as a user when you are in a SN for maybe 2 or 3 months you can sometimes feel fatigue. When you log in you just don’t know what to do on the network. So I think that is one of the success factors of Facebook; they have launched a developer’s platform. So users have many new applications to play with everyday.

I think that will be a trend for Social Networks in China. So far none of the Chinese SN’s have opened their developer platform. MySpace China is working on OpenSocial and also some smaller startups are doing this. City!N is working with OpenSocial too.

PPW: You think that there is a Chinese Internet bubble coming up?

Tangos: I don’t think that there is a bubble in China. This year investors became more cautious in new investments though. Of course there are some very big investments but generally speaking the investment market environment in Internet start-ups is not so good. There are many small start-ups that have difficulties in raising funding. Especially Chinese companies that do not have a very good business model. I think 2 years ago the market environment was much better. 2 years ago there were plenty of little start-ups without a good business model that have received funding from investors, but after 2 years investors realized that some of their investments are not doing very well now. So now they become more cautious.

PPW: Do you think that another reason for VC’s becoming cautious has to do with the fact that there are not so many ideas to copy from other countries anymore; Chinese entrepreneurs have to start coming up with their own stuff?

Tangos: A copy is not a problem for an investor. But also every investor is looking for something unique on a global level. If you have a service, which is truly unique, in China investors will hesitate and they will be more comfortable to invest in copied ideas. I also think there are too many companies that want to invest in China. I think a lot of VC’s are managing too much money so they are eager to invest and make some big deals. So for new start-ups it is not easy for them to raise small funds, small rounds. Many VC’s just ignore fundraising for under maybe $5 million. There are VC’s that used to invest maybe $1 million to $3 million, but currently they will only consider investments from over $3 million. So they have too much money and they need to invest it all within 1 or 2 years and they don’t have enough energy and time to invest in many small start-ups. They need to look for other bigger investments.

PPW: It seems that the Chinese government has a pro-active approach in the development of the Chinese economy, they realize that the next step is innovation and setting up Chinese brands in order to sustain the development.

Tangos: Yes. But it is really not easy. If you want to make Chinese more innovative and creative you have to educate them from the bottom up, so start with the children. According to my experience I think the educational system in China, from kindergarten to primary school, does not encourage children to think creative and does not stimulate creativity overall.

According to this wikileaks source the U.S. government and entertainment industry are jointly working on a multi-lateral agreement concerning intellectual property rights. By creating a new global standard for intellectual property rights enforcement they hope to stop the growing use of peer-to-peer (p2p). The so called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will turn the facilitation of p2p possibilities without making any profit into an illegal activity. The paragraph on the criminilasation of fileshares is already described as the ‘Pirate Bay killer’.

What would this implicate for China where piracy is still very common and because of it some markets get the chance to flourish? I have spoken to some people about the future of the Chinese Internet and more specifically about what Internet markets in China will most likely catch up or even pass the West. According to some of the people I met international property rights enforcements such as ACTA provide services as PPLive, p2p streaming video network with the largest number of users worldwide, and PPStream with great opportunities. Because of the strict policies in the West they hardly have any competition from overseas. According to Tangos Chan from China Web 2.0 Review,

p2p video streaming in China is already leading in the global market

Foreign companies are already actively looking for Chinese p2p partners in order to use the technology in their home markets.

It is very likely that the upcoming ACTA will give Chinese p2p technologies even more time, space, and opportunity to innovate, develop, and evolve. According to the wikileaks source the proposal also specifies a rather naive plan to encourage developing nations to accept the legal regime. Regarding the current situation of piracy and p2p services in China cooperation by the Chinese government seems rather unlikely.

The popular Chinese P2P TV platform PPLive has been sued for copyright infringement by entertainment company Beijing Shidai Yingyin International Entertainment Co., ChinaTechNews.com reports, seeking compensation of 330,000 Chinese yuan ($47,000). This is the first time PPLive has been sued, but it’s part of a larger backlash against Chinese P2P platforms.

PPLive is hugely popular in China. The service reportedly had 85 million users in October, and it currently offers access to several hundred streaming video channels as well as hundreds of on-demand shows. Most of those are Chinese programming, but PPLive also broadcasts sports events from around the world, including NBA and European soccer games — a feature that has made the service popular with sports fans overseas as well.

PPLive also relays music video stations like MTV Asia and feature-length movies. But recently there have been reports that PPLive has started to at least partially block content, with users complaining that they aren’t able to access western movies from outside of China. A spokesperson for PPLive owner Juli Media told ChinaTechNews that the company spent 60 million Chinese yuan on technologies to protect copyrights last year alone.

That number seems high, but there’s undoubtedly a lot of money to be made with Chinese P2P TV, as the rise of PPLive shows. The P2P streaming platform started as a university project in late 2004. By late 2006, it claimed to attract 2.5 million unique daily visitors, resulting in 18 million daily page views.

Those numbers have gotten the attention of U.S.-based VC firms. PPLive raised $21 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson in September in a third round of financing after having previously secured around $6 million from other U.S. and Chinese investors.

PPLive isn’t the only Chinese P2P streaming platform getting big bucks: PPStream raised $10 million in March of 2007 and UUSee raised $20 million from well-known VC firms like DFJ, Highland Capital and Steamboat Ventures after previously having raised $10 million from Sequinoa and others.

Now it looks like trouble is looming for Chinese P2P companies. PPStream was sued earlier this year, and the Google-backed download platform Xunlei even got in trouble with the MPAA, which is looking to get $1 million dollars in damages by way of the Chinese courts. So far, the effect of these lawsuits on Chinese-based P2P TV is unclear, but we might know more soon: ChinaTechNews is reporting that a court decision in the PPLive case is expected as soon as next month.

Calcio europeo e non, basket, pallavolo, motori, tennis, baseball, hockey… e altri, sono disponibili alla visione in diretta per tutti GRATUITAMENTE! La prima volta sembra complicato, ma poi mano mano che lo si utilizza, le cose si semplificano.

Prima di tutto andiamo su QUESTO sito o su QUEST’ALTRO . Come noterete ci sono una serie di eventi selezionabili con data e orario di visione. Selezioniamo quello che ci interessa e come avrete notato, sotto ci sono dei nomi di programmi. Bene, per vedere quell’evento sarà necessario almeno uno di quei programmi. Se non li avete scaricateli pure da qui:

SopCast 3.2MB

TVUplayer 4.2MB

PPStream 1.75 MB

TvAnts 2.8MB

PPLive 2.6MB

UUSEE 3.6MB

Feidian 1.6MB

PPMate 2.1MB

TVKoo 0.45MB

Streamerone 2.39MB

Scaricato il programma che ci serve, clicchiamo sul nome del programma nell’elenco sul sito dato in precedenza. Ora, a seconda del programma, quindi in un modo o in un altro, dovrebbe aprirsi il programma e iniziare a caricare l’evento. Quando il buffer (=caricamento) avrà raggiunto il 100% o circa, allora si vedrà l’evento. Gli eventi sono in differita di qualche minuto (dai 2 ai 10 credo) e le telecronache non sono in italiano… ma sempre meglio che non guardare la partita o seguirla solo sentendo la voce di Crudeli o Marocchino…

I consigli sono i soliti:
connettetevi un po’ di minuti prima perchè per ricevere una trasmissione fluida serve un po’ di tempo;
evitate di fare zapping;
chiudete tutti gli altri programmi aperti sul pc, in particolare quelli p2p come emule, uTorrent… io chiudo anche MSN quando lo uso

Ver películas por Internet es hoy una realidad. Si he de ser sincera, no tengo mucha experiencia por no decir ninguna en el tema. Más que nada porque mi conexión a Internet es lenta (la del trabajo no, pero claro, en el trabajo utilizo el ancho de banda para otras cosas) y porque con ilusionarme con Pandora (actualmente sólo disponible para US) ya tuve bastante. Pero ese es otro tema Este post era para recomendar un par de alternativas existentes para ver películas y series y de todo por Internet, Peekvid o Boxsweeper (con más enlaces funcionando que la primera), pero al final he decidido escribir también un poco de historia (personal) sobre el tema.

A día de hoy existen lugares donde uno puede ver series, películas, dibujos,… ¡online! Ya no vas al videoclub y eliges sino que entras en Peekvid y Boxsweeper y eliges. Y ves la película por Internet. La mayoría del contenido es en inglés pero se puede encontrar ya muchísimo material. Las malas noticias son que hay bastantes links rotos y un poco de descontrol sobre los contenidos. Tiempo al tiempo.

Para los amantes del deporte, recomiendo también algunos programas de streaming como son Sopcast o PPStream y una web con información disponible acerca de la programación: Rojadirecta.com.

Un poco de historia
De cuando las películas se alquilaban en el videoclub y las canciones te las grababas de la radio
Cuando empecé la carrera, allá por el año 1999 (¡con el efecto 2000 acechando a la vuelta de la esquina!), mi ordenador ya se pasaba horas conectado a Internet pero una servidora, amante de la música y consumidora habitual de cine, aún no había descubierto las posibilidades del medio para compartir dichos y por tantos tan queridos bienes de consumo y/ o productos artísticos (no es mi intención aquí que alguien se sienta ofendido).

Por la naturaleza de los estudios cursados (Comunicación Audiovisual), el debate de si la música por Internet se estaba compartiendo en masa o se estaba pirateando surgió no sólo en mi interior si no en diversos de los ambientes e incluso clases a las que asistía. En cierta ocasión, decidí profundizar en el tema y montar un par de grupos de debate para tratar el asunto y analizarlo metódicamente. A modo de anécdota, contaré que uno de los asistentes afirmó haber dejado de ser fan de Metallica por todo el embrollo que la banda tuvo con Napster.

Atrás han quedado ya Napster, Audiogalaxy y FlashGet (y muchos más, pero estos eran mis preferidos). Mientras tanto, la indústria discográfica sigue quejándose en vez de realizar esfuerzos por adaptarse a una nueva realidad y un nuevo modo de consumo cultural (especialmente de música, cine y series de televisión). Para muestra miren en su mac, ¿qué es iTunes si no uno de esos inteligentes esfuerzos? Mientras tanto, Sony y tantos otros siguen haciéndose ricos ahora gracias a la venta de cds y dvds vírgenes (para hacer copias de seguridad, no para grabar música ni vídeos, ¿eh?) y adentrándose en nuevas áreas como la producción y venta de grabadoras primero de cd y luego también de dvd.

Y ahora toca una aclaración: conste por escrito que con todo esto no estoy atacando a la propiedad intelectual, nada más lejos de mi intención.

Streaming
Todavía recuerdo la primera vez que oí a alguien hablar sobre el streaming. Fue en primero de carrera, en la asignatura de “Tecnología” (o algo así se llamaba). Poco a poco, el streaming fue cobrando forma en mi cabeza y pasó de una cosa difusa a una realidad para emisoras de radio y televisión con pocos recursos… ¡sin necesidad de licencias! ¿Increíble, no?

En poco tiempo empecé a hacerme preguntas que muchos ya hacía algo más que se planteaban tales como “¿cómo una radio convencional puede limitarse a colgar sus programas en Internet o a emitir en directo también a través de ahí?”. ¡El medio Internet ofrecía muchas más posibilidades!Y no sólo eso… la tecnología ofrecía muchas más alternativas de consumo… ¡muchas más!

La era YouTube
La tecnología ofrecía tantas posibilidades que en los inicios de YouTube muchos se preguntaban de donde sacaba tanto espacio para almacenar los videos esa web donde podías encontrar vídeos de casi cualquier cosa. Hoy en día YouTube se ha convertido en muchas cosas: recuperar programas antiguos, ver vidoclips de todos los tiempos, encontrar la canción del anuncio ese que nadie sabe cómo se llama, dar a conocer tus propias producciones audiovisuales, difundir los videos de tu recién estrenado conjunto musical… y hasta la manera que tiene una televisión nacional como la de Venezuela de seguir adelante cuando se cierra la emisora. Todavía no se pueden ver películas en YouTube.

¿Qué decís? ¿Estaría bien? ¿O el sector audiovisual se merece algo más de reconocimiento? Tal vez sea una arma de doble filo… rápida penetración en el mercado para los que se inician y demasiado rápida para los que no lo necesitan porque ya gozan del reconocimiento deseado. ¿Cómo podrán convivir éstas y otras necesidades del sector audiovisual ante la imparable evolución del consumo cultural?

Existen una gran cantidad de programas para ver la televisión a través de internet, en este mini-tutorial, listaré una serie de programas para Windows que sirven para este objetivo “ya que para instalarlos no hay que hacer más que doble click”, y explicaré como instalar en Ubuntu los dos programas que yo uso:

1. TvAnts a través de wine
2. Sopcast
3. Zattoo, que ya expliqué en su día
4. PeerCast, que aunque no voy más que a nombrarlo, ya que no lo uso, pero que sepáis que existe.

Lo primero que ofreceré es el listado de programas para Windows

Ahora que he listado esto voy a explicar como instalar el sopcast en Ubuntu

Para comenzar deberemos agregar el repositorio de treviño, para ello ejecutamos

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Y le añadimos las líneas

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty 3v1n0

deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty 3v1n0

Guardamos el archivo y cerramos el gedit. Además le añadimos la GPG

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/DD800CD9.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

A continuación actualizamos repositorios e instalamos el sopcast

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install gsopcast

Ahora solo tenemos que ejecutar el comando sopcast, tanto para crear un lanzador como para ejecutarlo vía terminal

Para ver los canales disponibles bastará con darle a search, ordenarlos por audiencia, e ir probando hasta que el partido que queremos aparezca

Ahora vamos a instalar el Tvants vía wine, para ello descargamos el archivo y hacemos un cd a la ruta donde lo hemos descargado, y ejecutamos vía línea de comando:

wine TvantsSetup.EXE

Y le damos a siguiente todo el rato hasta que se instale.

Ahora para ejecutar el TvAnts, nos creamos un lanzador que se active con el comando

wine “/home/TUNOMBRE/.wine/drive_c/Archivos de programa/TVAnts/Tvants.exe”

Hacemos click en el lanzador que acabamos de crear, y se abrirá TvAnts

De nuevo le damos a buscar y ordenamos los canales por audiencia, ejecutamos con doble click el canal que queramos, y nos aparecerá un mensaje de error como este:

Le damos a que no, y ahora que el programa nos está enviando los datos a través del puerto que se nos especifica en el mensaje de error escribimos en línea de comando: “puedes utilizar un reproducotr distinto de vlc si te da la gana”

vlc mms://localhost:16900/175.asf

Y ya lo tenemos.

Nota: Recomiendo ordenar por audiencia, ya que los partidos de fútbol suelen ser los canales que más audiencia tienen.

Actualización 1

Si quereis escuchar los partidos con el sonido más o menos ajustado al de la Ser, ejecutad vía comando:
sudo vlc http://195.219.130.201:8017/live
Pausamos la radio cuando comienze el partido en la radio y le damos al play cuando empieze en el ordenador