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[Mike_D]

How to view the Real Negril Webcasts on an iPad

1) Download the VLC Media Player app for the iPad. (There are other media players that will probably work, but VLC is reliable and it's free.)
2) Go to RealNegril.com and make sure that there is a webcast in progress.
3) Open VLC Media Player on your iPad
4) Press the orange cone icon in the upper left hand corner of VLC.
5) Select "Open Network Stream".
6) Paste or type the following address into the address field: mmsh://realnegril.com:3774/RealNegrilBroadcast2?MSWMExt=.asf
7) press the "Open" button.

Viola! The webcast stream should open in VLC. If you install VLC on full size Mac computer (e.g. Mac OS), the same process should work. You can also bookmark or save the link in VLC, so that you can go right to the webcast next time.

I think the issue some people have with viewing the webcasts on non-Windows machines is two-fold. 1) Since the webcast is designed to be viewed on Windows Media Player, non-Windows environments don't know which application to use to open the stream, and 2) when you click on the link in RealNegril to view the webcast, that http link actually re-directs you to the address above. For some reason (at least on my iPad) that re-direct doesn't happen - that is why you have to manually put that address into VLC.

Hopefully this will work for everybody!