Worked great for me, though I had to wait until about 7:10 for the stream to show up on Roku. I still think a wired connection with a Roku is the best route. You can get an "old" Roku 2 XS for $50 if you want to go the cheaper route, and the BallStreams channel is free to download and easy to navigate. Set the adaptive bitrate to "high-only" and you'll have real HD quality. The only downside is I don't feel confident pausing or rewinding a live stream on the Roku, so I just treat it like live TV back before the days of DVR (except that I can always watch a replay of it later) with no pausing or rewinding. But after spending all of last year using those crap streams, it is very nice to have this be my only "problem."
I could do that but I have a setting in the router that prevents individual machines from using any DNS other than what is defined in the router settings. Its a DDWRT powered router with advanced features
I use DD-WRT as well. You could also manually enter your local ISP's DNS on the device instead of auto. Since auto will pick up your DD-WRT router's settings. You may have to look that up. Having a static DNS entry set in your IPV4 settings will override the network wide setting through DD-WRT.
hey guys i just joined the ballstream too. i find the flash player bit choppy so i tried the vlc player. the video is smoother and great but i suffer some freezes in the player sometimes. i have 40 mega connection and strong pc (corei5 4570 8 giga ram and gtx 760) so i think it's a problem with vlc. billy from the site told me to usevlc 2.0.6 version and it's better than 2.1.0 version but still have freezes. can you guys please tell me which version of vlc is working good for you without freezes? another question- i tried the potplayer too but seems you can't fast forward or rewind the video which make it useless for on demand games. if someone has a fix for potplayer i'll be glad to hear too.
Don't want to hijack this thread but just FYI http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/OpenDNS Intercept DNS Port You can prevent users from using their own DNS servers (and hence get around content filtering) by intercepting DNS queries and forcing them to use the DNS servers you specify. I will play around with it and change the settings in the router to allow me to use the ATT DNS and see if that makes any difference at all with Ballstreams. One note though, on Tuesday when I first tried Ballstreams and there weren't a lot of games on that night it seemed to work much better compared to last night when there were 11 games streaming all at once.
Oh nice. I was just assuming you had it setup normally. The users on my home network aren't competent enough to change their own DNS servers so I've never had it intercept the actual queries lol. Hopefully that does work for you though.
This service is better than CSN Houston, IMO. Because you get every team, On Demand. And it's all for less than Comcast charges for one month of service.
anyone who get success work with vlc without freezes please let me know which version you use thank you
I think a lot of us wasted $55. SMH. We shall see. Even if they get this resolved within the 45 day free period (assuming providers accept the free offer), we would have had to pay for Comcast afterward. The quality is good enough to not worry about that.
I had the same issue with VLC on my Mac. Stream was much smoother but cut out every few minutes as opposed to the choppy but continuous stream through the site. I switched to SD/Low res at halftime and it was fine. I didn't want to have to adjust it anymore so I gave up. It looks like this thing just runs much more smoothly via mobile and Roku/Apple TV. Well, I don't see why the providers are going to take the freeview. All it's going to do is tease their subscribers if a deal doesn't get done after 45 days (or the Rockets end up on another network or whatever). I just don't see any incentive for it with ATT/DTV etc. I don't think the money was a waste (though I only bought 1 month worth for now) seeing as how you can watch the games on demand with it. I just noticed they have condensed version of games too if you want to see it later without watching the entire broadcast.
Are none of you concerned with the NBA not only shutting down this website, but going after those that subscribed to it as well, a la the Napster fiasco?
I can't speak for anyone else, but personally, I'm not concerned in the least. I just bought another 6 month subscription so that my sister can watch the games at her house too.
I mean... how can you not be concerned in the least? Did you read their privacy policy? It basically says if any form of legal enforcement entity requests your information, it will give it to them.
Screw the nba, screw comcast for screening with us. BallStreams for life for now, and nba won't shut them down, and even if they do, their is no way they'll come after us users. You guys know your rights, so stick with them. NBA doesn't give two ****s about BallStreams IMHO.
