Bet365 is one of the biggest bookmakers in the world. Although it is not a crypto sportsbook/casino, many gamblers use it even on this forum. One of its best features is the live streaming. Depending on where you are from, you can view a wide range of sports and leagues. From
football, basketball, ice hockey, greyhounds, horse racing, to Esports, and much more. If you are into sports betting, their live streaming offers players a chance to watch many matches live.
The problem with bet365 is that they keep changing their layout and find new ways to 'hide' their live streaming feature. A few seasons ago, the streaming was so fast, that it was a few seconds ahead of many sports channels on satellite and cable for many leagues. They have adjusted this delay, and now you will rarely find a stream that will give you a significant advantage.
After their most recent update, it is no longer possible to open a separate window for the live streams by logging in and clicking on
Extra from the top of the page and clicking on
Live Streaming.
As you can see, the feature has been removed:
That is why I have decided to create this quick guide with pictures and step-by-step instructions on how to activate, adjust the size, and work with the live streaming on bet365. For those who have never used bet365, in order to watch their streams, you need to register an account, deposit money into it, and for some sports, make a bet on the match you want to live stream. But in most cases, betting on the match is not needed. In my experience, wagering is only needed for
horse racing and
greyhound races.
1.Once you are logged in, click on the
In-Play button at the top. You can then browse through the various sports that are currently played (not all of them have live streams) or click on the
Streaming button to get a list of matches with available live streams. From the available matches, select the one you want to watch be either clicking on the correct match or the small play buttons highlighted on the right.
2.To activate the live streaming for your match, click on the highlighted
Play button.
3. The streaming window is very small, but we can make it bigger. Click on the highlighted button to open a new window just for the streaming.
4.A new window will open that we can work with.
For the next step, you need to use Mozilla Firefox. I haven't been able to find the same feature on Chrome. When the new window opens, stop the streaming and wait a little bit. You will notice that a new button appears at the bottom right on the stream. Click on it to activate
picture-in-picture mode.
5.You will now see something like this:
You can now adjust the size of the streaming window, move it around your screen, and make it fit together with other tabs and programs you have running.
If you are using multiple computer screens, you can extend your desktop and move the streaming window on one screen and leave the bet365 match centre on the other.
SUGGESTIONTo skip steps 3-5, there is an add-on that you can install for both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox that will maximize a video to cover the full screen with just one click. The add-on is called
Maximize Video and you can add it to your browser from the following links:
Chrome -
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/maximize-video/bfpkgjlnboeecjmnbhbknmemmckmpomb?hl=enFirefox -
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/maximize-video/If you want to search for it yourself, just enter 'Maximize Video' in your search engine and you will come across the same links.
After you started the live stream as explained in step #2, you can click on the
Maximize Video button in your browser as highlighted below. You will notice that the video on screen will be selected and highlighted in red. Just click anywhere in the video and it will be automatically adjusted for full screen.
Enjoy!