UK BBC Radio 5 live World cup coverage

You can also use WinAmp to play your feed as well.

Thanks for doing this.

hey, found this on Digg, Canadian living in the US, and stuck with the horrid ESPN coverage. this is awesome! I’m on a mac, and VLC works great for me! Go England!

Thanks a lot for setting this up. I have a question, the Live5 stream is almost 2 minutes behind being live. I was hoping to listen to the Live5 commentary while watching on non-English language TV channels.

Best regards, Roy

I’ve noticed the delays too.

If I had more time, I would setup a PVR system and delay the video to match the stream.

Thanks so much for this! Stuck at work and can’t watch the game. Really prefer the BBC coverage, though I’m the the US.

Yeah…Thanks a lot! This is great…..at least potentially. Does anyone else have the problem that the 5live stream doesn’t run at normal speed? I have a DVD recorder so the 2 minute delay is no problem but once I’ve synced the audio stream with the pictures from my TV in Japan, it goes out of sync again. Everyone’s voice sounds deep and slowed down. Any ideas why or how to fix this? I’ve tried both VLC and WinAmp with no joy. Thanks for your efforts this far though. Great work.

Up the En-ger-land! Kendalbren.

Hey, question…tomorrow there will be two live shows going on at once. Are you able to have links to both?

dijares: I’m just doing UK 5live. It’s upto them.

kendalbren: As I don’t have a TV I can’t determine if this is Realplayer’s or OGG‘s fault. If there is some setting for my icecast2 server I’d gladly apply it.

The trouble with these sort of streams are that they are cached to ensure “continuous” playback. I don’t think it will ever quite compare with FM and what have you.

I don’t know who you are but you are a genius!! I am sitting in an office in California listening to a live football match instead of some lame announcement from the BBC about contractural obligations!

Thanks for this great service!

OGG stream too slow?

kendalbren: I have the same problem. Seems like the OGG stream is too slow… i have tried VLC and stream through XBOX media player… no luck. I have to keep pressing pause on my DVR to keep in sync with the TV broadcast (ESPN in USA) ...

any ideas anybody?

great work! BCC commentary so much better than ESPN!!

Many many thanks for this! If you are ever in Scandinavia, I’ll buy you a beer
skål!

Sorry for being an idiot but…do I just need to copy and paste the url above into the “open network stream” bit of vlc? I’m hoping to listen to the Italy-Czech Republic game. Cheers

Dan: That sounds right.

I am unsure if 5live will cover that game. Check back here closer to the time. I\‘ll only setup then.

azzuri v. czech. 5live is covering the match. will the stream be available?

This is great….do you have the web address for the Sports Extra broadcast?

Great stuff. Thanks for setting that up.

You are a superb! Was trying to get it to work myself. Thanks so much! Now all I need is a hard disk recorder to pause live TV here in Sweden to sync it all together.

Thank god I don’t need to listen to ESPN anymore. THANKS!!!!

Great work, listening and watching TV in Japan, bit of time lag but prevents me getting overexcited. Thanks

Great, thanks!

If you have time lag issues, use a HDD or DVD-based Recorder (with chase playback) to delay video playback by about 50 seconds and then fine tune to sync up. Works liek a chram once you get it working! Thanks

peter

The speed issue I mentioned above seems to have been sorted out. Great work, fella! Whatever you did, keep doing it! After spending literally hours trying to get round this problem, I am extremely grateful. I’ve no idea how you did it but I’m so happy you did! Cheers!

Up the En-ger-land! Kendalbren.

fabulous! brit in LA loving life once more… terrible, terrible ESPN and ABC commentary… fantastic work… rock on World Cup

problem opening on VLC when trying to “open network” – any suggestions??

Hi, Love your stream. Today is an unlucky day because I can’t get the feed to work. ANy ideas?

Regards,

Rajiv

i am having problems conecting too. coming back with a ‘file not found’ error.

it’s not working!!! OMG the Germany/Argentina game starts in 10 minutes!!!

Please GOD someone tell me he is going to put the stream up before Germany/Argentina! Its starting soon!!

it’s working now

You\‘ll have to be patient people.

I can\‘t guarantee this service. Listener count peaked at 88 tonight.

Bad luck Argentina. I\‘ll be travelling in South America soon, so I hope you won\‘t mind I\‘m half-german. hehe =)

EVERYONE, OPEN VLC, GO TO “FILE” THEN “OPEN NETWORK” – CLICK ON “HTTP” BUTTON, THEN CUT & PASTE 222.106.128.198:8000/5live.ogg – go England GO!!!!!!

MAC os x

im on a mac in paris, its not working.!! i tried safari and IE, neither works. the stream comes up in my i-tunes but sits on 0:00, doesnt play. can someone help?

wow, i got it on VLC, thanks, your a star for sorting this….

Thanks dude !

Thanks for this.

Everyone take a moment to mail the BBC and tell them to A) unlock the region, and stream in open formats!

Thanks.

I got a feed and watched England play like THAT!? the horror, the horror… I say France all the way now…

I have really enjoyed listening to the games in Canada on BBC5. Thank you for re-broadcasting.
I noticed that you are offline today, will you be up in time for the Germany / Italy game ?

i am not getting the bbc stream today….i have used this for every match…and it is fantastic…can you please help…the match starts in 45 mins….thanks a lot

Great job! Really makes the World Cup worth watching. Football (soccer in these parts) is nothing without the great commentary. Thanks for your efforts.

You are not broadcasting today’s game?? France vs Portugal?

Is anyone else able to get the feed for France/Portugal? Things have gone deaf here.

Sorry about the outage last Thursday. I slept through an alarm at 4am.

good looks on cracking the stream…thanks man!

Congratulations Italy.

[...] Firstly thanks for everyone who sent emails and left comments regarding my efforts to rebroadcast Radio 5 during the World cup. Please try put pressure on FIFA or BBC, by writing a letter of complaint. [...]

THIS IS MY OFFICIAL COMPLAINT TO THE BBC TODAY !

PLEASE EVERYBODY TAKE YOUR TIME TO DO THE SAME THING…...

YOU CAN COMPLAIN BY CLICKING HERE

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/complaints

i have repeatedly tried to listen to live commentry on radio5 live via internet but i keep getting this stupid message saying that i can only listen if im in the uk ! if i was in the uk i wouldnt be listening to the match i would be watching it on Sky ! But you cannot get Sky in Greece ! ( if you do it is illegal ) so please help us x- pats abroad & lift the copyright on the matches ? at the end of the day music is copyrighted ! and is widely available on the net ! ( legally & illegally ) so why not a pay scheme to listen at home like Sky ? at the end of the day its a commentary its not music losing thousands of pounds of business ? the match only happens once & then its history ?? thankyou for taking your time to listen & hopefully act on this ? johnnie boy! discofrenzy@hotmail.com living in Greece i look forward to a reply ? thanks
Radio station:
Radio 5 Live
Programme name:
live commentry
Transmission date:
02 – 10 – 06
Name:
mr john roberts
Country: Greece
Europe
UK postcode:
(not given)
UK telephone number:
(not given)

the only other way is if you have a satellite receiver on astra 28 degrees east you can get the stream from there then re-stream it on the net with a fast connection with only about 1 second delay ? ( but this would be illegal !)

im looking around now for a cheap 2nd hand dvb box for myself just for the stream

if i succeed i will post again here with details of the stream…...

johnnie boy! ( or if someone else has the equipment to do it let me know on this board! )

is this page still active? tring to get BBC radio 5 live on the net….i have VLC…..do u have the url of the station? i want thr champions trophy cricket feed….
thanks