TVANTS

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

Adding a new channel/streaming local video files to other TVants users

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).

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.