World cup with no TV

Gosh, England were terrible!

I’ve been checking the bit torrent sites and there are some games, but not all of them. For example there isn’t the Argentina game this morning and I’ve check several sites.

When I watched Germany on Friday night, it was great. Quiet bar “Sunbo” in Bucheon with a big screen and cheap beer. Last night in Itaewon’s Holiday was too manic. So I watched in silence from the French bistro next door. Damn, England sucked.

I noticed some sites claim to offer World cup steaming and what not with horrible proprietary clients. I am not interested in streams. I want a well encoded AVI please!

I am trying to work out how the hell to get 5live in Seoul.

I\‘ve only just discovered I don\‘t have to use the rediculously shit realplayer client. I can use mplayer CLI! Yahoooo! Except I need to find an open UK proxy now. Help.

http://dave.org.uk/streams/

sam$ mplayer http_proxy://${OPEN_UK_PROXY}/rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radio5/live/r5_tl_int_g2.ra

i hope these could be a help for it.
i searched and found them.

• torrent related to world cup
  http://tvrss.net/search/?distribution_group=combined&show_name=world+cup&filename=&date=&quality=&release_group=&mode=simple

• dutch tv “Nederland 2″ – live stream
  http://stream.crossmediaventures.com/talpastream2

That live stream doesn’t work. I don’t want a live video stream. All I want is bloody Radio 5 live at this point.

I’ve been wrestling with proxies and realplayer for the last 2 hours and getting nowhere.

I think I’ve just got to buy a fecking TV.

Really fucking dumb. I HATE REAL PLAYER!! IT JUST MAKES ME WANT TO SCREAM. I\\\‘ve been doing a lot of testing with Real player under Windows and Linux.

The windows client is fucking ADWARE, with its fucking message centre and how it tries to get you to pay for the fucking full version and how it tries to own all media types. FUCKERS!!

I looked at various Debian proxies, but they didn\\\‘t seem to work. I think the protocol RTSP doesn\\\‘t proxy without special support. Unfortunately that support doesn\\\‘t fucking compile. http://www.rtsp.org/2001/proxy/

After some frantic searching I found CCproxy. http://www.youngzsoft.net/ccproxy/real.html I think it might work. http://static.natalian.org/2006–06-12/ccproxysetup.exe Since my parents in the UK have only Windows, this just might be the ticket.

Though the real player clients under Linux SUCKS. I can\\\‘t get Helix working with a RTSP stream. What a waste of time. I can\\\‘t get realplayer to run under my Ubuntu system at home. My Ubuntu system at work is AMD64. AMD64 doesn\\\‘t have all the media codes ported to it yet !! https://wiki.kubuntu.org/RestrictedFormats#head-7c5caf5975c1ac7ff8a6ff24ea044d4c42ac1712

Evidently listening to English coverage of the World Cup might be terribly illegal. All I can say to that FUCK YOU FIFA, for greedily guarding the coverage rights. FUCK YOU BBC for buying into it. FUCK YOU BBC again for being the world\\\‘s leading example of Geographical censorship.

I have some other interesting links: http://del.icio.us/hendry/worldcup06

is there any difference between rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm//ev7/live24/radio5/live/r5_tl_int_g2.ra and rtsp://rmlivev8acl.bbc.net.uk/farm//ev7/live24/radio5/live/r5_tl_g2.ra ?
first one is for international, and second one is for uk only.. and mms:// links works both hi and low..

maybe i think uk-only rm only offer live radio stream..right?

Actually I think BBC is smart enough to change to right version based on IP.

I tested the CCproxy and Win32 Realplayer last night and it works!

Now the problem I still face is getting Linux realplayer working properly.

I think I might try setup http://icecast.org/ and get it re-encode the Realplayer stream into some sensible format like OGG.

Haha! I figured out why Realplayer was crashing on my machine. SCIM. Which is a special input method which is used to enter foreign character sets.

good news for ya, i’m bored with the match “ukraine vs. spain”..heh

i hate uk-only censorship..though

Oh yes the UK feed is:

rtsp://rmlivev8acl.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radio5/live/r5_tl_g2.ra

The international feed doesn’t switch the UK like I previously assumed it would.

I started a new blog entry about 5live : http://natalian.org/archives/2006/06/15/bbc-radio-5-live/

http://www.bbcproxy.com/pricing.html just commented (spammed) on this post.

It is sad outfits like this have sprung up. Charging 90USD for a service BBC should normally provide. It also looks really dodgy. What are the guarantees you’ll receive service from this Russian outfit?

I’m providing a free service as a protest of BBC‘s policy to limit Internet coverage to the UK. The Internet should never be geographically limited.

Russian outfit here…

It usually takes about 500Mb per user proxying live broadcast.
I pay for a huge bandwidth. Why do you think I should offer this service for free?

Again is it that important for you weather I\‘m american or russian?
I thought you just wanted to watch BBC live broadcast.

Hi all,
just found this site after googling “live audio streaming world cup”. I’m a Brit in the US and would love to hear the 5 live on my mac at work. I’m not super-computer-friendly, though. Could someone tell me how I can use this get-around that you guys are talking about, please? Thanks.

spence, the details are over here : http://natalian.org/archives/2006/06/15/bbc-radio-5-live/

Though I don’t use a Mac so I can’t really help you with listening to an OGG stream.

I use a mac. You need to download a player called VLC for mac. It plays ogg streams or files just fine. I listened to all the matches I could on a Mac G4 in the USA.