Creating A TVAnts Tracker

[a-t]

Found this online so all credit goes to the original author. ( Setting up TVants tracker )

Setting up a Private Tracker Server
1-3-1. the default tracker server is www.tvants.com
1-3-2. If you wish to set up 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
 Tools  setting  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.

[Admin]

Thanks That is/was the TVAnts doc if Im right...

[a-t]

Your Welcome Yes it is. I found it a while back and was meaning to ask you about the possibility of creating our own tracker.

[ozzymanborn]

How big server need for a good tracker?

[Admin]

Unsure to be honest, but you need some good upload speed if you make it public. You can also use it for yourself.

[AlexBar]

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

It's very important feature for me. Maybe someone knows the DB structure (what tables are used by TVAnts)?

[yhzarcali]

Unsure to be honest, but you need some good upload speed if you make it public. You can also use it for yourself.

No, that is not true, you don't need to have a big upload bandwidth.

/Cali

[Admin]

Thanks

Is the first post still up to date/correct about how to create one?

[a-t]

No, that is not true, you don't need to have a big upload bandwidth.

/Cali

Actually you need a decent amount of speed. It's pretty much a basic information server, but if you have a lot of channels which in turn have a lot of viewers you have to supply each viewer with the information on the channel.

Thanks

Is the first post still up to date/correct about how to create one?

Don't see why it wouldn't be. There hasn't been any updates to TVAnts since the guide was written, except for the yearly update which is quite lame.

[yhzarcali]

list.tvants.com is hosted on a 1Mbit upload connection, and it worked fine til the chinese firewall tried to block it, that's why I am making mirrors and tests to solve the matter.

/Cali

[Chilly8]

list.tvants.com is hosted on a 1Mbit upload connection, and it worked fine til the chinese firewall tried to block it, that's why I am making mirrors and tests to solve the matter.

/Cali

You should not need a really big connection. You should only need for whatever channel you plan to run. I block US and UK IP addresses to avoid stay out of legal hot water, copyright-wise, and creating my own server, and putting BeeThink on it to block US and UK IP addresses, I think the 1 meg upload connection I have should do it, since I am only broadcasting at 340K, and the peers that connect should carry all the needed bandwidth.

[Chilly8]

list.tvants.com is hosted on a 1Mbit upload connection, and it worked fine til the chinese firewall tried to block it, that's why I am making mirrors and tests to solve the matter.

/Cali

Here is something interesting about the Chinese firewall blocking stuff. On Sopcast, I can go through a Chinese VPN service, and I will not be blocked from streaming anything on Sopcast, but the Chinese firewall does block the Sopcast website itself. That is odd they would block the Sopcast website itself, but not block anyone from streaming on the Sopcast app.

[AlphaCrucis9]

I have had a chance to finally test my own TVAnts tracker, using my Android phone with TetherNow, on another computer. I do my own streaming on my own TVAnts tracker, so I can block USA IP addresses, and keep out of legal hot water with the USA (being that the Yanks think they rule the entire world).

First, when it comes to proxies, which some people have tried to use to circumvent the geoblocking, most proxies will not work. This is because while the HTTP to get the special geoblocked webpage will come through the proxy, the TVAnts protocol is a seperate protocol and will not traverse any kind of proxy, other than a VPN. TVants, Sopcast, and Flash streams cannot traverse any proxy other than a VPN.

Second, when it comes to browsers, I have found that a webpage with an embedded TVAnts player will not work with Firefox. This is becuase it uses ActiveX code that only works on Internet explorer.