Live Streaming Box with 50 bucks

(Relax a bit-watch World Cup)

If World Cup subscription fee is ridiculously expensive as mine (100+ bucks), wondering why we need to pay that much money for an event that should be free to everyone- (and still have to watch commercial contents), you may consider this solution.

All you need is a Raspberry Pi board(40+ bucks), a good network bandwidth and some Linux skills to port related software to the board. It works insanely well for me.
You can expect h.264 stream at 1.5Mbps, HD size at 30fps. So far I haven't encountered any lagging and disruption. Really enjoy watching it freely.

For Vietnamese, there is a very good add-on to watch quite a few Vietnamese channels(VTV, SCTV, VOV,...), it really works as your smart TV. Thanks to all the geeks out there spending time developing this brilliant application.

You have your Raspberry Pi board ready. Please following this guideline to install raspbmc to the board.

After that, follow this to install sopcast add-on. So simple, right? If you face any issues, drop me an email.