In order to use Internet TV, your network must be multicast-enabled and your Internet provider must support multicast. Today only a few Internet providers support multicast. However, most academic networks do. You can perform a test of your multicast connectivity at Multicast Technologies. If this test fails you cannot view Internet TV.
The videos are in MPEG1 format and can be viewed using a great variety of video players, such as Cisco IP/TV viewer and Apple Quicktime Player.
The Cisco IP/TV viewer provides high-quality rendering. You can easily shift to full-screen mode. If you want to install the Cisco IP/TV viewer you can download IP/TV viewer for Windows operating system.
The common Apple Quicktime player is capable of viewing the live broadcasts, but MPEG1 movies are rendered at a lower quality compared to the Cisco IP/TV viewer. If you don't have the Quicktime Player, you can download it for free from the Apple web site.
The mim player for Linux from Videolab at the University of Oregon can be used to view the live broadcast. To start, download an sdp file from the program guide, save it to your disk and start by using the command "mim -f nobel.sdp."
By choosing the sdp file, you will view it using the viewer you have chosen as default for sdp files. This can be for example the Quicktime Player.
If you see the source code of the sdp file as text, or if nothing happens, you have not installed any viewer that can read sdp files, or none of them are associated to sdp files by mime types.
If you want to run the player manually, download the sdp file to your disk and open it in your player.
There are two sdp files to choose from:
Printer Friendly 
Comments & Questions
Tell a Friend 