TVANTS是一个开放的网络电视平台, 用户除可以欣赏精彩的电视节目外,也可以在TVANTS添加自己喜欢的电视频道, 还可以建立自己的个性电视台.

官方主页

HTTP://WWW.TVANTS.COM

HTTP://BBS.TVANTS.COM

软件地址

客户端＋控件：

http://www.tvants.com/download/tvants.0538.exe

TVANTS使用手册

文 件	链 接	说 明
TVANTS使用手册(1)	http://bbs.tvants.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=12&ID=626&page=1
TVANTS使用手册(2)	http://bbs.tvants.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=5&ID=721&page=1
如何添加节目	http://bbs.tvants.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=12&ID=264&page=1
TVANTS联盟	http://bbs.tvants.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=9&ID=1961&page=1

詳情請到 bbs.tvants.com畱言，謝謝！

附图1：主页节目表截图

主页节目表截图

附图2：软件节目列表截图

附图2：软件节目列表截图

附图3：添加发布自己找到和转播的节目

附图4：添加成功后p2p传输效果实例

tvants内嵌播放网页代码及示例

xml接口：http://mirror.tvants.com/xml/epg-public.asp

以年代新闻台为例：

已知年代新闻台地址：tvants://www.tvants.com/tvants/?k=5dd098446723f93e
则代码为：

如何架设电视直播流服务器

电视直播服务器架设

电视直播一般要求不是很高，150台机器以下可以直接在电影服务器上做，150台以上并且看电视的人很多，建议配台专用的电视服务器或者使用tvants软件。 所需硬件：电视卡一块(我以天敏的电视大师2代介绍，市场价在190～210之间吧） 所需软件：Windows Media Encoder 首先安装好电视卡驱动和播放软件及Windows Media Encoder，安装完后启动桌面的windows media编码器

启动后界面为

然后新建会话

然后新建广播实况时间，然后配置视频和音频设备

在选择广播方式

在选择你要用的端口

再就是编码的类型和问您存不存档

在就是添加欢迎词和标题、作者〔在最新的9.0版中沒有以下几步〕

启动后界面为

点击编码就可以直播了，下面观看的地址为mms://服务器ip:8080(或者其他端口)

好了，现在我们就可以把地址添加到tvants里面了（如何添加节目http://bbs.tvants.com/dispbbs.asp?boardID=12&ID=264&page=1），等到生成地址就可以通知我们的朋友了，告诉它刚才记下的地址。打开Windows Media Player，输入IP地址以及端口号。(外网观看需要在服务器上映射端口到电视服务器）

需要注意的是：不要用天敏的电视精灵系列，它不能编码成功，有事电视直播时在很少人观看的情况下很卡，你看看Windows Media Encoder的cpu占用率是不是为100％，是的话把它关了在开。

默认情况下，在广播过程中编码器最多支持 5 个直接连接。通过在注册表中编辑项，可以将该数字增加到 50。（要编辑注册表项，必须具备编码计算机上的管理员身份凭据。）在注册表编辑器中，通过树形视图找到如下子键：HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTSoftwareMicrosoftWindows Media ToolsEncoderMaxClientConnections。
编辑该子键，使其反映出所需的直接连接最大数量。可能的最大数量为 50。

投资200元，就能完成电视节目的广播服务，给大家看自己的节目，我想大家看了应该都想试试了吧。

所需软件下载：点击进入下载页面

如何添加节目

1、点“添加”选项，将地址加入到地址栏中，可以写上自己的名字“TVants”和频道名称“无锡娱乐频道”

2、点确定，查看详情中的生成地址。

将它放到网页代码中，替换附录2中的tvants//地址就可以完成网页直播了，同时更改一下网页中的名称就行了。

以年代新闻台为例：

已知年代新闻台地址：tvants://www.tvants.com/tvants/?k=5dd098446723f93e
则代码为：

TVANTS Basic User Manual

(This manual is used for TVants software: http://download.tvants.com/pub/tvants/tvants1/win32/bin/TvantsSetup.EXE)

Introduction

TVants is an Online Peer to Peer Streaming software, its core technology is based mainly on the very popular Bit Torrent, which means a single peer who playing the stream will exchange ( send or receive) streaming data packet with a few peers, in order to maximize the bandwidth usage and obtain the most optimal streaming quality.

TVants currently collect 600 different channels from china or foreign countries, includes China CCTV, TVBS, Taiwan ZhongTian, and ESPN, TVB and so on inside our database.

Tvants is freely distributing their Server and Client side of software. In other words, TVants users not only can watch their favorite Channels/Videos online collected in TVants official database. They also can set up their own private tracker server database to collect different channels or share their hard disk video local files with anyone online with broadband connection.

Furthermore, TVants users also can add any other TVants private server (set up by other individual TVants users) in order to search for more channels in private server database.

1, TVANTS ports in use:

1-1Tracker Server Port: 16600

1-2 Data Sharing Port: 16800, this port is open in default for direct internet connection users, intranet users who is blocked by firewall might have to manually open the port or allow TVants to connect to internet in their firewall setting.

1-3 Data Broadcasting Port: 16900

1, Server Tab

1-1 Definition 1: TRACKER server, server which store channels information and coordinate user data stream exchange, for adding tracker servers (picture below), users can choose to add more private tracker server to acquire more channels.

Port: Tvants Tracker Server use 16600 port

1-2 Definition 2: Streaming & Publishing Server, Mainly is Window Media Server which produce mms: // stream address. (Note: latest version of TVants, version 0717 and above, able to stream and publish local video files without the need of window media server. Users also can stream web cam video or TV capture card signal using Window Media Encoder together with TVants, Window Media Server is not compulsory necessary anymore.)

1-3 setting up or adding a Tracker Server

1-3-1. the default tracker server is www.tvants.com

1-3-2. If you wish to set up/add your own tracker server, please go to server tab, press add and fill in the related information (refer picture below)

1-3-3 when you successfully add a tracker server, you may go to

à Tools à setting à tracker tab (refer picture below)

1) Enable the tracker

2) Set your prefer tracker port, default is 16600

3) Domain name

4) Enable Default Announce Location and set your announcement page display for channel initial buffering

5) The ODBC database support is not open to users yet, other please set as default.

Please feel free to email to tvants-english@hotmail.com if you encounter any problem.

2, Search Tab

2-1 TV Channel name, Genre, Audience, Quality, Bit Rate, description and so on. The higher the quality the better. Users with slower internet connection might choose a lower bit rate channel instead of higher bit rate. Channel display in grey text is either zero quality or no signal.

You may also type in the keyword and press "Search TV" button to search for the favorite channels.

2-2 Double click on the selected channel and the channel stream will appear within minutes or seconds, the quality of the channel might be unstable in the beginning and improve gradually.

2-3 Users can watch more than 1 channel at the same time if your bandwidth is large enough.

Instruction: Go To -> Channel Tab -> Modify Button -> Tick the lock channel status and you can double click to open another channel.

2-4 every search is 100 channels in maximum, if you wish to get more channels, press on the “more” button.

3. Channel Tab

3-1 Progress Buffer bar display illustration

3-1-1 Viewing references for users, the higher the quality the better.

3-1-2 Green color is referring to download stream, if the green color bar is continuous, it means the user is getting stable data stream, users will be able to watch the channel around 60% of buffer at normal time.

The entire progress buffer bar is 120 seconds

Green = Downloaded, ready for play

Dark green = Played

Blue = other users have data

Yellow = requesting data from users

Red = transmitting data from other users

Black = unavailable or data access denied

Purple = incomplete downloaded data not ready for sharing

3-2 Definition 3: “Add “Button to build new channel

3-3 TVants has 2 ways to build new channel:

3-3-1 Use Window Media Services to build a new mms:// as the “seed” of the channel.

Instruction: Select “Channel Tab” -à “add” button and fill in the related information as the picture below:

Note1: Better to fill in both Chinese/English description if possible.

Note2: You may choose to add the channel to your own private tracker server, just replace the tracker address www.tvants.com with your own private tracker server domain name. If you add the new channel to www.tvants.com tracker, please drop us an email to inform us for basic checking, or else TVants users will not be able to search for the channel you add, other users can only watch the channel if they know the publishing location of the channel.

Note3: Transfer capacity and Transfer Limit come with default setting.

Note4: Tick hides original address so that nobody can see your mms address/IPs

Protocol - TvAnts currently support 2 different types of media streaming protocol: MMS and RTSP protocol, if the channel address is using RTSP protocol, please fill in the URL starting with mms:// ( Tvants will auto recognize).

3-3-2 Repeated streaming of local video files using Tvants server (for version 0716 and above)

No need to add files into Window Media Services, directly using Tvants to broadcast.

Instruction： Select “Channel” Tab, press “Add” Button

URL Format

file://path{;path}

Path - refer to the absolute or relative directory of the video files e.g. c:a*.wmv

URL Examples：

file://e:1.wmv

file://e:1.wmv;e:2.wmv

file://e:*.wmv

Requirements:

1) The video files must be WMV, ASF, and WMA Format

2) Use the same type of video format for the case of a series of video broadcasting. The best is to use a certain codec.

Press Ok Button and it will generate a publishing location, and the publishing location can be recognize by lower version of TVants.

Definition 5: Transfer Capacity, Optimal Upload/Bit Rate = Transfer Capacity
Definition 6: Transfer Limit, Maximum upload/Bit Rate = Transfer Limit.

Note: the parameters - Transfer Capacity and Transfer Limit are set at 5 in default, for uploading and streaming.

Definition 7: Hide Original Address: Hiding original address means nobody can watch the channel when your computer is shut down.

Definition 8: Lock Channel Status: this option can lock a channel existing status, even if you open other channels, the locked channel will remain streaming, suitable for seed channel computer.

Definition 9: “Detail”, There is a button in channel Tab to display the p2p transfer details among users, it display the transfer information among MMS/TCP/UDP protocols.

3-4 Publishing location of a channel

Instructions: Select the channel and press the “detail” button below, you can see the publishing location of the transfer details :

Definition 4: TVants Publishing location

tvants://www.tvants.com/tvants/?k=916b5145b3205414

The above link is one of the channel publishing locations of TVants, it is generated from the respective tracker server. User just need to copy and paste it into the Internet Explorer address bar, the related channel will show up.

3-4-1 Publish a channel on a webpage using ActiveX

Instuction: add the following object code in your webpage to publishing a channel:

4, Transfer Flow Graph Tab

4-1 Green is download flow, Red is upload flow

5, Performance Tab

5-1 Display all types of logs when running TVants

6, Event Tab

Translated by Liew Keong Han

Email: kh_liew@hotmail.com

TVANTS技术测试帮助基本手册

(本手册适用于下面版本TVANTS软件: http://download.tvants.com/pub/tvants/tvants1/win32/bin/TvantsSetup.EXE)

简介

TVANTS是一种全新的流媒体播放软件，她的核心技术类似于现在非常流行的BT (Bit Torrent)， 即一个播放节点同时和数个播放节点交换(提供或索取)数据，使得带宽的占用达到最大化，获得最佳的播放效果。通过TVANTS，我们可以获得流畅的、效果良好的网络电视播放效果，给我们带来更多的便利，为网络生活增添色彩。

TVANTS目前收集近600个中外电视频道.与同类软件比较, 频道数量最多, 信息量也最大. 其中港澳台/国外的著名电视频道,如TVBS, 中天新闻台,东森新闻台, 年代新闻/MUCH, ESPN(中文), 香港有线体育, CNN, TVB星河,卫视合家欢, …等都是独家顶级的电视频道.

TVANTS是一个开放的网络电视平台, 用户除可以欣赏精彩的电视节目外,也可以在TVANTS添加自己喜欢的电视频道, 还可以建立自己的个性电视台.

一, TVANTS的使用端口

1-1目录服务器端口: 16600

1-2 共享数据端口: 16800, 对于公网用户在使用软件时候默认打开,内网用户TVANTS具有直接穿透内网网管限制的能力.

1-3 广播数据端口: 16900

一, 服务器选择功能卡

1-1定义1: 目录服务器(TRACKER), 存储节目信息和协调用户数据交换的服务器， TVANTS有服务器栏目选卡(下图), 可以自行增加多个目录服务器

端口: TVANTS目录服务器使用16600端口

1-2 定义2: 种子流服务器, 主要是WINDOWS MEDIA SERVER, 用于产生MMS://流

1-3添加目录服务器

1-3-1 软件默认使用的是WWW.TVANTS.COM 作为TVANTS目录服务器
1-3-2 如果要添加新目录服务器, 切换到“服务器”选项卡，点“添加”按钮，按要求填写 (见下图)

1-3-3 当把服务器添加成功后，在添加节目时可以在“服务器”下拉列表框中看见你添加的服务器。然后,工具→设置→目录服务里如下图设置：[假设你的域名为：www.tvants1.meibu.com]

二, 搜索栏目卡

2-1 电视频道名称, 类别, 观众, 播放质量, 流码率等信息的显示

2-2 双击所选频道行, 可以观看相对应的频道

2-3 TVANTS可以同时运行多个频道

2-4 每次搜索频道为100个, 如果需要更多频道, 点”更多”按钮

2-5 共享数据端口: 16800, 对于公网用户在使用软件时候默认打开, 内网用户TVANTS具有直接穿透内网网管限制的能力.

三.,频道栏目卡

3-1进度显示说明

3-1-1 用户观看电视的参考指标, 质量越高, 数值越大,

3-1-2绿色代表的是下载的信息流, 如果画面连续,性则代表用户获取信号连续. 用户在60%的进度显示一般就可以观看了

3-2 定义3: “添加”按钮: 建立新的频道功能

3-3 TVANTS有两种方法建立新的频道.

3-3-1 用Windows Media Service 建立一个mms://作为”种子”的TVANTS频道。

办法:点击“频道”选项卡下的“添加”按钮按照下图提示填写。

注：TvAnts现在主要支持两种格式的节目地址：使用MMS和RTSP协议的，如果节目地址是使用RTSP协议，在填写节目地址时请改为MMS开头〔TVANTS会自动识别〕，添加好单击“确定”，默认情况下这个频道会自动开始播放，选中这个频道后点击下方的 “详细”按钮。在出现的“传输信息”窗口中可以看见“播放地址”[见下图]

定义4: TVANTS的播放地址

tvants://www.tvants.com/tvants/?k=916b5145b3205414

上述形式的链接为TVANTS的播放地址, 由相应种子源在服务器中自动产生.用户只要将它放到IE中点转到就可以观看电视节目

此主题相关图片如下：

定义5:传输能力, 最大上传/码率=传输限制,

定义6:传输限制,推荐上传/码率＝传输能力,。

注: “传输能力”和“传输限制”这两个参数，默认0的时候，系统会控制在5个左右的上传并发流。

定义7: 隐藏源地址:,隐藏地址要求您的TVANTS作为种子，一旦关闭，其他用户将无法观看这个频道。

定义8: 锁定频道状态: 这个选项可以锁定频道状态，即使打开其他频道，该频道原来的播放也不会停止，适合种子频道。这样当您观看其他频道时，您发布的自有频道仍然会处于运行状态。

3-4-1 直接支持服务器硬盘文件列表的循环播放，

不需要先把文件添加到Windows Media Services，通过TVANTS直接转播

方法：

打开TVANTS,进入”频道”选卡，点击”添加”按钮：

URL格式

file://path{;path}

path指视频文件的绝对路径或者通配符，例如 c:a*.wmv

URL举例：

file://e:1.wmv

file://e:1.wmv;e:2.wmv

file://e:*.wmv

要求：

1) 直播文件必须是WMV, ASF, WMA格式文件

2) 如果直播一组文件，请注意这组文件的格式必须相同，也就是用完全相同的视频音频压缩格式。最好使用一个固定的预定义格式压缩。

点击确定按钮，生成发布地址，该发布地址可以被低版本的TVANTS客户端识别和正常播放。

3).增加“启动自动播放选项，在“工具”-“设置” -“广播”-“启动频道的同时自动打开播放窗口”。

3-4-1 定义9: “详情”, 频道栏目中有一个按钮可以显示用户之间, 用户与流服务器之间的P2P传输信息, 可以显示MMS/TCP/UDP协议之间的传输信息.

四, 传输流量图表.

4-1 绿色为下载流量, 红色为上传流量

五, 统计数据卡

5-1 显示软件使用时候各种电脑运行数据

六,. 事件显示选卡

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