Some tv stations, like the BBC in Britain, will provide their fellow countrymen with an opportunity to watch the football world cup 2006 in germany live in a streamed version from their webpages. They said on their webpage that “The service will be available to UK broadband users and will mirror terrestrial and interactive coverage.” I assume it is free of charge but maybe my loyal British readers could enlight me how they plan on streaming the content.
They most likely will scan your IP and lookup your country from it. That means people from outside Britain won´t be able to view the matches on the BBC homepage. (or other homepages of other countries, you get my point I hope.) So, it would be impossible for an englishman, who is supporting his team in Germany, to view the live coverage on the BBC pages. As you all know, there are always ways to circumvent country checks, here is the one I suggest.
Last time it was ABC who did not allow their series to be viewed by people from outside the USA and the method that I described back then is still valid for the World Cup (or any other streaming content on the internet).
But this time I want to introduce a faster method which should work most of the time for you. Visit a website like whatismyproxy.com to check on your own IP. Remember this IP, you will come back to this site and check the IP again with a proxy enabled.
Search google using strings like “country proxy list”, “england proxy list” and the like. You will come up with search results like publicproxyservers.com or proxy server list. All show a table with proxies including the country the proxy is hosted. Browse for proxies that are located in the same country as the content provider of the streams.
Copy one of the IPs and remember the port. In Firefox open Tools –> Options. Select Connection Settings and select Manual Proxy Configuration. Add the IP to the HTTP Proxy Row and enter the Port in the field next to it. Click Use this proxy server for all protocols and test it by navigating to the whatismyproxy.com website again.
See if the page loads fast and the IP is different from the one the website displayed earlier when you checked your real IP.
If you see a different IP it means two things. First, the proxy is working (assuming it does not take ages to load pages) and second your are surfing relativly anonymous. The BBC website will check your IP and detect that you are coming from Britain and display their treasures for you. Note that it is still possible to detect your real IP by the means of Java for example.
If you have questions let me know, I´ll be glad to help out. The great advantage of this method is that you can check and use proxies no matter what operating system you are using. A disadvantage is that it could take a while until you find a fast working proxy that is located in the country you need. If you have troubles try charon to verify proxies, the how to is available from my ABC article.
Update:
Take a look at my worldcup preparations article for a working method that involves downloading a software. You will be able to see the matches live with english commentary.
Related posts:
Select a country for your proxyWeb Proxy Server List
Firefox Football Worldcup Extension
Howto watch ABC TV Streams outside the USA
Proxy Sites
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Maybe I was crazy to pay money on the website that looks like SCAM but it worked for me!
Great! I’ve just watched Argentina Mexico clash.
These guys from bbcproxy told me that they just have no free time to make a new design for their website.
Great, Lemon. Here’s an idea: why not share that proxy info with us? I’m sure I speak for every user that we’d be happy to compensate for the information.
Otherwise, doesn’t this post sound a little like a commercial?
This website provides free streaming of the worlcup. Just download the player and follow the instruction. it’s very easy and free. http://www.lucas.md/worldcup.php
Hi,
As a UK TV licence payer [the TV licence fee goes entirely to the BBC] I think it’s only fair that those who don’t live in the UK (and therefore don’t pay the TV licence fee) shouldn’t be able to access some of the BBC’s content. UK residents are effectively subsidising the service for the rest of the world. The fee is about £10/month.
Silly question, but why not just watch it on TV, and follow your favourite team down the pub with your mates and enjoy the atmosphere?!
TIME DIFFERENICE! that’s why…what kind of question was that?
An honest one. You mean to say that in the land of the free your bars don’t stay open to show a major global sporting event? Not even the USA matches? I remember during the last World Cup in South Korea/Japan piling into the boozers at 5.30 in the morning to grab a good seat for England vs Argentina.
Shame that none of the US broadcasters are streaming it online. A commercial opportunity missed, as they would have milked it for all the advertising that they could have got.
One broadcaster streams, but ESPN360 only provides the service to ISPs purchasing broadcast rights. This creates a restricted market where competing corporate interests poke their finger in the other’s eye, purposefully leaving individual content-seekers out in order to create a false “grassroots” consumer movement to get non-compliant ISPs onboard.
It’s only the latest example of stratifying internet content to so-called “premium content” to generate new profit streams…as though the internet doesn’t already provide sufficient commerical opportunities.
I’m now watching Germany vs. Italy via the TVU player from my office. Just download and watch! Thanks all!
http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=60OB4XGA
Also found that the SUN audio feed worked well:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006260665,00.html
I tried to watch the TVU audio feed while listening to the SUN audio feed, but it seems like the TVU feed is delayed by a minute or two from the SUN audio feed so it is a bit awkward.
Does TVU player works for mac?please i am quite desperate /any tips?
TVU does not work on Mac, but will work in a PC emulator (I recommend Parallels, which in my experience outperforms Virtual PC or Bootcamp).
Sun.co.uk provides an audio feed, for sure, but only for the least discriminating listener who isn’t bothered by hearing the canned crowd-noise on repeat in the background.
In head-to-head comparison, I think Bet360 provides a better stream. (see earlier post for link)
This site provides World Cup live broadcast..
http://www.lucas.md/worldcup.php
Don’t miss today’s match and the finals tomorrow
You can watch TvuPlayer flux with VLC (Pc and Mac version) under Virtual PC. Open TvuPlayer, select your channel. Then, open VLC (pc version) with this link : http://127.0.0.1:8901
Save the stream with VLC (dump brut) into your shared folder (VPC) Open the video with Mac QuickTime Player (Flip4mac must be installed). Enjoy.
why doesn’t my TVU player work? None of the channels work and the signal is zero.? help?