Notice: even Turkey now seem to have a nice quality upload speed (about 5 mbps), differently from Italy (of course), whose only fiber optic service, so far available in a very restricted number of areas, does not exceed 3 mbps of upload speed.
To view for free the best Chinese channels, currently the easiest solution is p2p streaming.
My impression is that Chinese authorities seem to be against the streaming capture on VLC (maybe for copyright reasons), in fact the few Chinese streams playable on VLC usually go down soon.
On the other side, Chinese authorities seem tolerant towards free p2p via browser, probably because the p2p rtmpf protocol doesn't allow the streaming capture.
Here are two very good free p2p websites from China:
fengyunzhibo (available even for mobile devices)
live.imgo.tv
Both of these sites host for free even premium Chinese channels, but they can be viewed only via browser or via embedded flash player, and don't allow the streaming capture.
Notice: even Turkey now seem to have a nice quality upload speed (about 5 mbps), differently from Italy (of course), whose only fiber optic service, so far available in a very restricted number of areas, does not exceed 3 mbps of upload speed.
Upload is 3mbps cause it's only a better ADSL... Good thing: it's growing very fast: all main cities are connected and marketing is very powerful...they call every day to offer to join it...
this is not regarded as two of China, Hong Kong, China which is just
Very true. The positive side is that here many people exploit the internet to view the most popular national tv channels (this explains the huge amount of unlocked tvheadend and dvbviewer ips from Hong Kong, with free-to-air national channels).
So I think Hong Kong is definitely one of the most technological countries in the World.
Unfortunately the same doesn't happen in China and Japan, I suppose for censorship problems.
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Upload is 3mbps cause it's only a better ADSL...
I think the Italian maximum upload speed of 3 mbps would make it perfectly suitable for dvbviewer (with transcode option at medium quality, 1024 kbit).
But in the case of Italy, the lack of technological culture plays surely an important role: for example, most Italians ignore the usage of dvb transcoders (differently from Germans, Danes, Austrians and Hong Kong users). In fact, in Italy dvbviewer is still very unpopular. TVheadend and Openwebif are much more widespread, instead, but in my opinion they do not offer the same easy and powerful transcode features of dvbviewer.