Archive through July 12, 2003
TV ClubHouse: Archive: All Things Technical for BB 2003 (computer stuff):
Accessing the 10 streams directly thru RealOne, BBLive, etc.:
Archive through July 12, 2003
Ryn | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 12:49 pm     Cool - just an easy way for me to switch cams without installing anything else - thanks guys. You can also download it and run it as a stand alone swf file. In that case it opens to the default size of 160x250 I think Correction - unless you have the flash creation program I guess you need to open it in Explorer and ree-size it - hope I didn't confuse anyone ;) |
Jadeis40 | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 09:08 pm     Can anyone help me please? I signed up and paid my 24.95 and I am getting a white screen on the realone log in. I know I am impatient but no one will help me. Please? Jade :::on knees begging::: |
Draheid | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 10:05 pm     Jadeis40: Did you check your preferences to make sure you have Cookies enabled? Have you been able to sign into your account at www.real.com? Check to make sure your account is active and that cookies are enabled and see if that helps. If you need help with those, let me know. |
Jadeis40 | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 10:14 pm     Yes I am signed up at Real and my cookies are enabled. I am so frustrated. Jade. |
Draheid | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 10:19 pm     Jadeis40: Are you using a firewall? Have you tried disabling that?? Are your security settings in Internet Explorer set high? You might want to look at this faq at the RealOne site: Why do I receive a "Service unavailable" message in Big Brother? as it has some tips similar to this you might try. Let me know please. |
Jadeis40 | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 10:34 pm     I've tried. I just can't believe this. It worked perfect last year. |
Draheid | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 10:39 pm     Jadeis40: What's different this year? Have you added anything? Changed provider perhaps?? Upgraded your computer or any of the internet software??? There are many possiblilities. Can you surf to the Realone site with the Realone browser? Do you see any of the 'free' channels at Real.com?? Have you been able to play any content on the realOne player yet other then Big Brother feeds??? |
Bearstuff | Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 08:30 am     I have a quesiton re: BBlive. I downloaded and set it up.... works well except for one thing. I can only have one window open at a time. I was of the understanding that you could have several windows open at once. Could someone explain? Or have a misunderstood? Is there a setting that I missed? Thanks! you guys rock!!! |
Happypixie | Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 09:10 am     Bear, I have the icon for BigBroLive on my desktop...all I do is double click and open it up, choose a feed and wait until it loads, go back to desktop, double click again, choose a different feed, go back etc until I have 4 windows open....but I have to keep the volume down on 3 of them or I can't understand anything...oh and they may open on top of each other so you'll have to move each one to a different area of the screen so you can see them all at once..... |
Friendofdot | Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 09:30 am     Downloaded BBLive and immediately got an error saying: System error &80004005 (-2147467259). Unspecified error. Just to be safe, I downloaded the visual basic, but already had it. Please help...have never had so much trouble trying to watch BB and this is my fourth year. Thanks to any and all help in advance! |
Moozer | Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 01:25 pm     Friendofdot, I get exactly the same thing. Can't figure out what the problem is... anybody else?? |
Grannyg | Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 01:40 pm     I have only one thing to say about REAL this year.........only the strong will survive!!!!!!!!! |
Friendofdot | Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 01:52 pm     Grannyg, you are soooooooo right. The previous three were sooo easy in comparison. |
Bearstuff | Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 06:10 pm     Thanks Happypixie! but....... it doesn't work...... so...... I will stick to the regular stuff! I do appreciate the advice!!!! xoxox |
Friendofdot | Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 07:34 pm     2nd or 3rd request. Sorry to be a pest, but can anyone tell me why I get errors and am not able to use BBLive? I have WinXP Home SP1 and have visual basic, but get an error message everytime I double click on BBLive. As I'm having so many problems with Real, I would really like an alternative. Any help will be GREATLY appreciated. |
Moozer | Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 08:13 pm     Ditto! I also have WinXp-- couldn't be that, could it? I notice the download site for BBLive says it will work on Win 95, 98, and 2000...(and doesn't mention XP). Anybody running it on XP? |
Xx2000xx | Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 09:04 pm     Hmmmm, it was odd, but the first time i d/l bblive, i got an error. I re-d/l the program again, and sure enough it worked. Guys, re-d/l the program, if you guys know xp plus service pack one, u know a bit about comptuers, and it should work. I know this for a fact, i d/l the program, and the server that i d/l from was unstable, i gave up for one day. So next day, i re-d/l, it works great. Try again, i guess. I can hit all the live feeds at once, all the audio will go on at one time, so you have to manage what is the priority, then go from there. However, check out my threads on recording live feeds, u can capture it ALL, all 4 feeds at one time if u want, u need a fast computer, but i'm here to help. |
Wannabb4 | Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 11:01 pm     Sorry if this is a repeat question......but does anyone have the links for the feeds where they don't time out. they had them last year. thanks- |
Draheid | Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 11:04 pm     Wannabb4: They have already archived so here they are again. Thanks to Adamblast for posting them first. 225K Stream rtsp://start.real.com:554/rd?pid=bb4_live&url=cam1_225.rm rtsp://start.real.com:554/rd?pid=bb4_live&url=cam2_225.rm rtsp://start.real.com:554/rd?pid=bb4_live&url=cam3_225.rm rtsp://start.real.com:554/rd?pid=bb4_live&url=cam4_225.rm rtsp://start.real.com:554/rd?pid=bb4_live&url=quad_225.rm 80K Stream rtsp://start.real.com:554/rd?pid=bb4_live&url=cam1_80.rm rtsp://start.real.com:554/rd?pid=bb4_live&url=cam2_80.rm rtsp://start.real.com:554/rd?pid=bb4_live&url=cam3_80.rm rtsp://start.real.com:554/rd?pid=bb4_live&url=cam4_80.rm rtsp://start.real.com:554/rd?pid=bb4_live&url=quad_80.rm A special thanks to whoever listed those links first; I just got them thru the thread entitled "24/7" in the General Discussion area. |
Wannabb4 | Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 11:09 pm     thanks draheid.........now i can go to sleep and awake to the bb houeguests. |
Friendofdot | Friday, July 11, 2003 - 07:27 am     xx2000xx, thank you very much for your suggestion of trying to d/l again. Just tried and got the same error message. Am wondering if the file is corrupt? Does anyone know another place to d/l? Or is anyone willing to send me the program? Just call me desperate :-) |
Friendofdot | Friday, July 11, 2003 - 07:56 am     Update...I found an email address for the devopers of BBLive and have emailed them for some type of support. Hope I hear back soon and will post their advice (I hope). |
Bracken | Friday, July 11, 2003 - 07:57 am     Ok, I'm losing my mind here. Called Real, was on hold for 22 minutes. I have real and it played fine last night. Then I minimized screen to read stuff here this morning to get up to date on happenings last night and could never get it reappear. Shut down computer. Opened again, again, get the icon on bottom of start bar area and no picture. Clicked on one of the start commands posted by Draheid -- many thanks -- and now I hear snoring but still can't get a picture to appear. I had same thing happen briefly yesterday and did a system restore and had it up and running this morning but the minute I minimized, it decided it wasn't going to open again. I'm sure some of my software is screwed up but have no idea what it is that makes the windows work. Same things happens to my windows media player -- think the whole thing got screwed up when I downloaded upgraded windows media player software a few weeks ago -- only have dial up and think I must have not received all the code. Can some of you technies help me out before I'm forced to call the GeekSquad here in Chicago. Thanks. This is soooo frustrating. |
Adamblast | Friday, July 11, 2003 - 10:20 am     Bracken, this is a longshot, but: is there any possibility that your program windows are just displaying too far to the right? If so, temporarily set your screen resolution to the very hightest it will go--so that your whole screen is in fine print--and perhaps you'll be able to drag the windows back towards the middle... |
Jeffo4him | Saturday, July 12, 2003 - 09:41 am     I am running XP Pro (fully service packed) and get the same BBLive error when running it from the hard drive. When, however, I click on the download link and click on "Open" instead of save, it runs! Please try this out if you are having the problem and see if you get the same result. This might be a big clue for the developers. JeffO |
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