You need a High speed connection that has at least 2M download and 800K upload in bandwidth to watch Star Ray TV''s video stream. TVants is a shared system; your computer has to upload the stream to the next user. Users with bandwidth problems can create a "black hole." We reserve the right to disconnect and ban anyone that is affecting the stability of our TVants server. We regularly ban Roger's Cable Internet service users because Rogers is blocking our uploads. I invite Rogers Cable users to cut the cable cord and watch us for free on UHF channel 15. For more info, see http://freetoronto.tv

The embedded video on tobroadcast.com uses a signed ActiveX plug-in called the "TVants ActiveX Control 1.0" which is downloaded from our server. McAfee's SiteAdvisor gives Star Ray TV's tobroadcast.com downloads a "Nuisance Score" of 0: http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/tobroa ... downloads/ This means our downloads are free of adware, spyware and other unwanted programs.

The plug-in uses Windows Media Player to run the stream. You need to have preinstalled Windows Media Player 7.1 or higher. You can download Windows Media Player from here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... loads.aspx

The plug-in works well in all versions of Windows Internet Explorer . You may see a yellow bar at the top of the page asking to enable the plug-in. You may get a request from your firewall to unblock the TVants plug-in. You may also get a prompt to download a codec from Microsoft. This is a legit download and not a virus. We use Microsoft’s advanced VC-1 video codec for the video picture.

ActiveX does not work in Firefox, the on-demand videos will play with a Windows Media plug-in. ActiveX works in the new Google Chrome browser if you enable it. The ActiveX plug-in also might work on old Internet Explorer versions for Mac.

You do not need a browser to watch Star Ray on the Internet. You can use the program version of TVants. Go to the forum topic: “Star Ray TV now has a TVants server!” for more information. The program version has the added benefit of several Internet channels that you can watch. I personally prefer the program version of TVants because it does all the installing in the background, I don't have to worry about the browser, and I can watch other channels.

This is too complicated to setup.... can you just use ******.tv ? Then everyone can watch you.

Did you try installing the TVants player? The player automatically does all the configuration in the background.