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Anyone have any experience with the acestream software? It's supposed to offer much more reasonable image quality than the average flash stream, but it appears to be of russian origin and some hackers over there might have hostile intentions.
Most flash streams on the other hand seem to be eternally choppy despite their very low bandwidth and resolution. It doesn't seem to make much, if any difference whether I'm connecting to the Air servers nearest my location or other regions. Could simple low-bandwidth flash streams be throttled by my local provider?
I have a "blank" NSFW laptop with the usual array of noscript, ublock etc available for this pastime, so throw caution in the wind and install acestream? Relax the script and ad-blocking regime and surf barenaked? Try different protocols and ports?
Right now I'm interested in a working kludge, but the ideal solution would of course be a safe, reasonably priced and well-executed subscription service that would allow users to legally get around the artificial geographical barriers. BBC's streaming service is technologically exemplary at delivering streams reliably at the best possible quality depending on the user's specific bandwidth and when new codecs like HEVC are introduced they can only get better.
It's ironic that due to restrictive copyright deals fuelled by greed the clubs aren't allowed to provide profitable service to those outside the availability of current offerings. UEFA and national associations should just pull their heads out and license the streaming right to any legitimate party for a per/head fee.
I have been using acestream for almost a year and I must say the quality is much much better than any flash stream that I previously used. Plus, it seems more stable that the flash streams or sopcast because of the p2p technology.
Whether it works on slow internet I can't really say. My internet connection is quite slow (not because of the budget, but because the country in which I live has "awesome" ICT technology), but I am seldomly unable to watch something on acestream. WIth regards to ads, they are not annoying, I get once in a while an ad, when I start the stream, but I can skip after 3 or 4 seconds.I tried a lot of things to watch sport events, but acestream provides by far the best image quality and stability.
When it comes to paid alternatives, there is no netflix or hulu for live sports events, while tv does not broadcast all the matches/competitions that I am interested in. So acestream provides high quality streams that broadcast all Champions League, La Liga, Premier League, Italian Seria A, MotoGP or Formula 1, Rugby's Six Nations Tournament or Four Nations Cup and so on.
Tell me if there is any paid alternative that streams/broadcasts all these competions? I would gladly pay a reasonable amount of money to get access to something like this, but there is no such thing.
Plus Netflix is a joke in my country. Their library has tv series that were aired last year, while the current season will be available next year, of course. With this business model I will probably watch a football game 2 months after it was played. An innovative company has to come up with some ideas to acquire the rights to live stream because right now you either use acestream or watch some live coverage on tv (bbc broadcasts some Formula 1 races, Eurosports broadcasts MotoGP in some countries and so on).
I will stay with acestream for the time being. It's an amazing streaming technology and if you are a sports passionate you kind of have streams from all mainstream sports. In my opinion, there are alternatives for watching tv series and movies (like Hulu and Netflix, with their limits of course, but they exist), for music you have Spotify, but for sport events there is nothing that I know.
I caved and installed the beloved hairball that is Kodi along with a couple of streaming add-ons with most recent setup guides I could find and already those add-ons seem to be discontinued. It's a veritable jungle and either things go without a hitch or one can spend hours or weeks scavenging for solutions. Running Linux probably doesn't make things any easier.
I wanted to give acestream a go in particular, but any stream I tried would give up after some seconds and maybe the reason is that the Linux version used by the add-on is outdated, but to figure that out would entail delving into a hairball (acestream) inside a hairball (Kodi) and then there's no knowing if and how the version could be manually upgraded. Then there's the little Kodi issues like no cut and paste in their GUI so devilishly long URLs and hashes must be manually entered, none of the streams list their bandwidth requirements or any up/down info if the stream picks up etc. But I can appreciate what the Kodi developers are trying to achieve.
Then there's the little Kodi issues like no cut and paste in their GUI so devilishly long URLs and hashes must be manually entered, none of the streams list their bandwidth requirements or any up/down info if the stream picks up etc. But I can appreciate what the Kodi developers are trying to achieve.
That said, Kodi is impressive for what it's meant to be: fancy point-click media center with pretty sane default functionality and insane jungle of unofficial add-ons just around the corner that more or less works on just about any platform, some better than others. There are add-ons to give you loads of flash (huh) and P2P streams, but their sources and bandwidth requirements tend to remain unknown.
I always use rojadirecta.me or livesport.sx to get the acestream links. I select one of the many options from the lists. Since I find rojadirecta's interface a bit more clean and friendly, I usually end up on one of ArenaVision's channels. These two websites provide channels that work smoothlesly in 98% the cases (sometimes one of the streams has no active peers, but I can easily click on another one). Since I don't use any Linux distro as my OS, I do not know what happens when you click on arenavision and ask to open the stream directly in acestream. Now, my solution would be check on the two aforementioned websites the sport event that you are looking for and get the acestream link from -channel-list.html. Then you just paste the link that you need directly in acestream.
I installed the above-mentioned P2P plugins when this project started without knowing that they had already been recently abandoned. As a result sopcast was installed and works, although offerings are very limited. Acestream was supposed to be installed but never was. SportsDevil does often show plenty of flash streams, but on my system or version of Kodi flash wants to own the CPU rendering that option unwelcome. Others with different versions of packages and hardware may have better experiences.
Kodi and acestream do play well on linux, but it's not always straight forward. I've found that rather than relying on plexus/p2p streams downloading the client, it's better to download the latest engine, and tell plexus/p2p streams to use the external engine. You can then use addons such as sportsdevil or castaway (arenavision is excellent BTW) to navigate acestream without having to manually enter the long acestream ID's
Note the last line, this would have to be entered into the Plexus\p2p streams configuration, and type set to "use my own". Also, these are for a reasonably well connected system with about a gb of ram free, adjust --live-cache-size (bytes) appropriately and reduce --max-peers to accommodate bandwidth.
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