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- CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11That wouldnt be any good, by the time the dl is done the news/ people will have already told you the score multiple times.. :(
- iluvatar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13As long as they offer the Ocho...
- Ollin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Thats where I plan on watching it........besides their announcers are alot more livid ;)
- dvdcr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8You can watch hispanic channels like "Univision" they will air all el mundial. lol...
- mrbro, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11It's something where they play football with their feet (!).
- br0ck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Maybe if someone packaged new torrents every 5 minutes and then everyone could set the RSS feed to keep grabbing them as they show up? Too bad it isn't possible to add files to an existing torrent.. or have a tracker link to a stream and everyone shares the stream, or if the host seed could seed a partial file and as the file grows the tracker just keeps sharing around the ever growing file.. or.. or.. Well, multi-cast would solve much of this, but a P2P streaming format of some kind would be pretty damn cool in my opinion.
- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Pirate live P2P television exists for a long time already, just look for TVants, SOPcast, TVkoo, PPlive, PPStream, TVUPlayer..just to name a few.
I use TVAnts to watch the NBA finals live, since no norwegian channels (public or cable) broadcast the damn thing! :( - Nyghtewynd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4There is a way to reference an IP address to show that you're from the UK even when you're not so you can take advantage of the BBC feed, but I have no idea how to do it. I'm sure that someone smarter than I will put the instructions under this post...:)
- salweem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Only hours to go....
- Hubso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Pfft! Stick it on my tab....
- yottabite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh come on, mod br0ck back up again.
He actually has some pretty good ideas.
A distributed streaming protocol is not a bad idea at all.
You guys are all just scared of his bow-hunting skills. - diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i'm going to DVR mine as i'll be at work during many of the games. already have it setup for the opener with germany on friday.
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Adelphia has ESPN360 for cable Internet subscribers.
- krynsky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Another thanks to rodrigo74. I had heard about P2P-TV in the past but hadn't tried it. Man this is great...btw I went with SOPcast...and am currently tuned in to channel CCTV5 watching the Poland game...the rez and quality of the stream is great without any buffering or dropouts...
- philgmo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Unfortunately for me, Comcast doesn't seem to be an ESPN360 partner. Not a big surprise, since the site prominently displays the Verizon logo. If only Verizon offered Fios in my neighborhood already!
- br0ck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, thanks @rodrigo74, I obviously had no idea. Currently watching via PPPStream and it buffers half the time, but it's better than nothing!
- tybris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Orb can be found for free @ http://www.orb.com/. It does everything you need.
and where did the edit button go? - MilitantRabbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I lack the bandwidth to stream any of the World Cup games if they are online.
Thank god XM's broadcasting all the games. - kodek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3A proxy? I don't think a proxy would be a wise idea for streaming video.
- sbutcher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2most 16 year old digg-ers wouldn't understand, but the rest of us are actually working in the office at 14:00 and 17:00.
i pay for a license and am only in the house for 2 hours before i have to go to bed. - tagawa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Even if you could spoof a UK IP address, wouldn't the target server send the packets of data to the spoofed IP rather than your real IP? In other words, you'd successfully fool the BBC into thinking you're in the UK but you still wouldn't be able to watch the football?
If someone knows a way round this, please please please enlighten us. I'm sick of being discriminated against by the BBC website because of my geographic location, whereas my UK-based friends have full access to internet broadcasts regardless of whether they have a TV license. - andrewwc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1to watch the world cup live, you may want to check this out:
http://watchworldcup.blogspot.com/ - LilGator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I know recent online TV streaming services only check the ip at stream request time, not during the actual stream. MLB.tv and the NCAA Tourney CBS streams were both run the same way. You would authenticate and it would check your IP and decide whether or not to give you access to the stream. All that was needed was to proxy in through a working IP in the right location, then grab the stream URL (mms://... in this case) and connect to it outside the proxy.
But maybe the BBC is smarter than this :D - FrozenOrb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@brucebeh: bbc.co.uk is one of the world's highest traffic web sites, I think they'll cope.
- Porchman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Nonsense.. I don't know where you get the idea that football is actually played with your feet. There's no relation there.
- jason7655, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone got a mirror to PPStream...it seems to be broken.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Even better: buy a $45 TV tuner card (from compro, for example) and plug it into an open PCI slot and then program it to turn your computer on and record the games to DVD-burnable MPEG-2s. At least that's what I did. I recommend other people try it too. Cheap and no set up required.
- bloodguard, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5World Cup? Is that the one where they chase each other around on horses and toss around a dead goat?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So why did you post then?
- NoozeHound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Some of the kick-offs are during the working day
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1about orb:
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only works with _those_ cards? :( - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Orb appears to have died on my machine. It's no longer compatible with my TV tuner :(
- hawkmucci, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
this one made folks in the office pretty happy! - quack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1UK Only: If you're going to watch the streamed footage from the BBC at your employer's office, they need to have a TV licence or else they might be fined £1000. So watch out.
- poordavey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm watching the opening game Germany v Costa Rica right now on ESPN360 through Frontiernet in Minnesota.
The quality leaves something to wish for if you want to watch fullscreen, but at ESPN360s quarterscreen size it is satisfactory. - brucebeh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1nice..
i hope bbc.co.uk survives, can't wait to watch this.
a lot of streaming video websites are showing world cup live as well, i'm not going to mention them here, but a google search will enlighten you. - Jerky1312, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Most people will probably be downloading the games off Bit Torrent for archival purposes and if they actually miss the game live. It'll be interesting to see if there will be strict enforcement by FIFA and TV rights holders of the games being traded. To be honest, I wouldn't mind downloading the games, even if it wasn't live and I had already known the scores. They will be some of the most seeded torrents for the next few months.
- addw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was thinking of doing some large downloads, but now it looks as if the neighbours will be soaking up the broadband bandwidth -- I'll go for a walk in the park instead, it will be quiet there.
- Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A proxy server! Although I'm sure they will work around that.
- armenianeagle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ESPN 360 Free until July 19th
http://www.tinytimtechnology.com/blog/2006/06/26/espn-360-free-until-july-19th/ - atariby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2football on digg?
This is the end! - Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can't understand why the BBC are doing this, when they are showing the games on their free (ish, pedantic people :P) TV channel at the same time.
- tybris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Just get Orb...
- DROB003, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2probably right but it would depend on the proxy......a free proxy would likely not have the bandwidth
- ortelius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am sure that all of the matches will also be broadcast on PPStream PPLive etc. (thats chinese rebroadcast for those who dont know). Check here http://www.google.com/search?q=Football+PPStream
I watch EPL, Serie A etc from the states all the time this way.
Still cant get used to Gooooooooaaaaaalllll in Mandarin yet.
Enjoy, Go USA!!! - vhauri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They're giving away espn360 now, but even so, you can get it free after July 19 even without being on one of their listed providers. Here's the explanation: http://www.vaskenhauri.com/blog/?p=64
- gozu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You would need an english proxy with enough bandwidth and decent latency and packet loss if you are to get a semi-watchable video stream. No good...
- pkrbt2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Watch from allover. Simple instructions here:
http://worldcupsopcast.blogspot.com/ - Nabil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I tried several things, and the best thing I found was TVants. Install it the TVants client by going to http://download2.tvants.com/pub/tvants/tvants1/win32/bin/TvantsSetup.EXE/ and then go to http://mirror.tvants.com/ and click on CCTV5. The only drawback: The comentary is in Chinese. Other than that, it's great.
- bbcproxy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Viewing World Cup games online is easy http://www.bbcproxy.com/
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