ABC started their streaming service on their website today. Users from the USA are able to watch episodes of Lost, Desperate Houswives, Alias and others right from the website. Unfortunatly they check your IPs origin and decline access if the whois turns out to be from outside the USA. But as always, there is a way around this restriction.
This is slighty complex but you should get used to the procedure. All you need is a http proxy that is hosted inside the USA and does not spill your IP address. To achieve this you need a application that checks proxy servers for those variables. I recommend Charon for this task but you could use other tools as well.
Download Charon from the website mentioned, you don´t need to install it at all, just extract the contents to a directory of your choice.
Fire it up, you have no proxy list yet so you could use google to find some lists or let charon do that for you. Simply select Check Proxies and then Scan Search Engines for new Proxies. Charon will find some proxies that are then displayed in the table. Those are unverified, now select Check Proxies and Check Anonymity of all Proxies. This might take some time. If you only recieve bad and timeouts you have to change one option in charon.
Select Connect Options and chose Use External Judge(s).
Let it test the proxies. If you have enough good ones or a finished test sort the proxies by the Country tab. Only USA proxies are working so we need one of those. The Anonymity tab should state YES. If both are correct right click the line and select Copy to clipboard and Copy selected IP:Port.
Open your browser and paste the proxy address into its proxy settings. For firefox you select Tools >> Options >> Connection Settings >> Manual Proxy Configuration and add the proxy and port there. Close the options and visit the abc streaming site. If you see a Launch button you are ready to enjoy the tv shows. If not try another proxy from the list.
I checked the service with this proxy and it worked flawlessly: 192.104.67.250 port:8080
Enjoy the shows.
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hehe…why would anyone inside OR outside the US want to watch ABC?
I used to live in Detroit, now I live a mile across the river in Windsor, Canada. I miss my US tv…… you can’t watch abc, nbc, fox or cbs on the internet in Canada. And the local stations only offer clips of the shows aired on these networks. So I personally wish to view USA networks on my laptop in Canada
Try to use US wifi from Windsor. That way you’ll appear in the US from Onario.
Why wouldn’t people outside the United States want to watch episodes of popular t.v shows on ABC? Such a silly question. I am a member of a military family and I have recently been sent overseas to Europe. I do not get to watch shows such as Lost, SNL, ect., ect.. As these are my favorite shows, I really want to see episodes that I have missed. So I would apprecate a website where I could watch my favorite t.v shows. Unfortunately ABC and this website, as well as others, do not do that. I am trying to create a website that will do this for the support of our military families and troops living overseas. So next time, think of the people that our saving YOUR country. Americans don’t just live in America. I hope you learned you lesson. Have a lovely day. (:
hey there, i live in jamaica and the two best sites as yet are: CUCIRCA.COM, and VIDEOSTIC. when using cucirca try and use the megavideo feed as it is usually the best (when you click on the show you want to see, it opens a page with 2 or more screens. megavideo is usually the first one). for videostic, after you select the show and episode, click play and wait a couple seconds. then press pause and wait until the blue line (indicator) reaches nearly the end, then press play. you should have pretty good quality of uninterrupted shows!!
Thanks Sam !
Saving it from whom exactly?
Well, I live in Holland and we always need to wait very long before we can see a new season of lost for example and that’s why I want to see abc, and they also have it on very good qualtiy
Because ABC screens LOST! That is why!
I would say without a doubt to stay up with the latest indoctrinations.
I watch abcnews and I live in South Korea.
Oh nice :-):-).
Holy!
All I did, was type into google “Free Proxy” and pages and pages of search returns containing free proxies, were returned.
I hit the first search result, and it listed tons of proxies by ip, when they were last tested and country of origin.
I chose a US proxy, quickly enterered it into my Internet Explorer/Firerox Connection settings, and hit http://ipchicken.com it didn’t show my ip, I hit abc’s site next and it worked no problems.
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i am looking for a video overlay grabber
is there a way to capture the stream
and then convert
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
thx for the howto – good thing to know
Use http://www.whatismyproxy.com/ instead of ipchicken. The chicken didn’t show that I was forced to use a transparent proxy – but whatismyproxy clearly shows that I am. Maybe ABC don’t check the Fowarded-For header, which is great.
is There a mac app also “Charon”
Thanks for this excellent guide! Works great!!
All this trouble to watch a shitty quality stream?
No, thanks. P2P is the way to go.
For all of those that hate ABC, I bet this would work for Cartoon Network’s friday night fix too…
actually a proxy is needed only when initially connecting to abc’s “live streams” page.
you can then deactivite the proxy and watch the shows !
OMG………it works !!!!!!!!!! Im from malaysia.This is COOL !!! Good Job
martin !!!
Yes it´s true. You can deactivate the proxy when viewing the show and you passed the ip check. You could also scan for a proxy that is not that crowded with users :)
Don’t work. After i hit the launch button this message comes in???
Invalid domain
episodes are temporarily unavailable. please try again at another time
so what´s wrong
They probably banned the ip of the proxy that I posted. Try scanning for your own and you will find one that is working.
I’m clicking on Check Proxies and then Scan Search Engines for new Proxies and it will begin a search but no proxies are found. Help!?!?!
I´m having samekind of trouble´s…
Frist the “Invalid domain” message
And then thish Charon prog ain´t working
What should I do??
Thanks it worked
i can get lost couple hours after its aired in usa..
even tho i live in europe.. :D
entered proxy into internet connections ok. i went to go to the abc streams
but it wouldnt let me go to any website at all, what do i do?
this proxy is probably not working, try another one.
it says episodes not available at this moment… ive tried allot of proxies
how do i get this to work on a mac computeer
I don´t know if there are proxy checkers for mac out there. You could try and use google to find proxies and test them manually using a site that reveals your ip, like www.whatismyproxy.com
For a Mac just go to System Prefs > Network > ‘your connection e.g. Airport’ > Tick the Web Proxy and enter in the Web Proxy Server and Port from your source.
I looked here and the third one I tried worked a treat. Now to wait until it has aired… ;-) http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html
You can use the proxy to load the Flash viewer than cancel it for better
performance. The check is made just on the beginning.
Good website is www.snoopmyip.com and for proxy stuff, www.proxyspot.com
enjoy
I am already behind a proxy in my office and I wanted to access the LOST
show and watch it after work.
If I paste any other IP, the connection to internet goes away. Do you
have any suggestions?
Specs – PC with IE and Mozilla
Hi
This is most helpful.
But I am behind a proxy at my office. The proxy connects to proxy server
and the ABC site checks the IP which is non-US based.
I would like to watch Lost after work hours. Any idea on how to do it then?
If I choose a US based proxy, my net connection goes away as I need the proxy to connect to the net.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
hi, i clicked on check proxies and then scan search engines for new proxies and i also chose use external judge from the internet options when an error message came up, it shows at the bottom what it’s searching, but i waited for about 10 minutes but no proxies came up?? please help
hi again, that problem’s solved now, but i have another 1, you know you wrote ‘Those are unverified, now select Check Proxies and Check Anonymity of all Proxies. This might take some time. If you only recieve bad and timeouts you have to change one option in charon’ that’s what’s happening to me, i’m only recieving bad ones, how do i solve this problem? you said you have to change one option, i don’t get it, please help, thanks