The football worldcup is starting today and it surely is going to be the biggest sports event of this year. We all know that some companies are going to stream the worldcup live on the internet for their countrymen. If you are not that tech savy and still want to view the cup online your best bet is to download a software called pplive. I suggest the stable version but experienced users could use the beta version as well.
Install pplive on your system, make sure you chose english as your language. The options should appear at first start and you can change some settings like ports, connections and the like. Click ok or hit enter to leave the options. Select Play from the menu and you see a channel list on the left, probably lots of garbage if you don´t have the appropriate fonts installed on your system. But this does not matter.
The important channels are the following:
CCTV1, CCTV5 and probably Shanghai Sports
All three seem to be showing all games of the football worldcup live. Take a look at the boxtobox website for a complete schedule of the games and which station is broadcasting it.
I suggest you take a look at this tool if you can´t watch a game in tv.
Update:
Download the latest Tvuplayer version from Rapidshare and select the channel ESPN2, they show the games live and it´s working. Downloads also available from Badango and Rapidsharing.
Update 2:
I compiled a list of frequently asked questions that tries to answer some questions about the tvu player.
Update 3:
If TVUplayer does not connect you have the option to download either TVants or Sopcast and watch the worldcup or other sport events from those programs. (CCTV 5 is the channel, unfortunatly with chinese commentary)
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what if you are at work and can’t download anyhting to your workstation?
If you are from Britain you could view the games from the BBCs webpage. Maybe a media company is offering the same if you are living in a different country.
If not you could try and find a proxy that is located in Britain to view the live stream there.
There are also lots of live tickers out there that give you information about standings and events.
I cant find CCTV1, CCTV5 or Shangahi with this program!
Click the play tab in pplive. On the right side of the tv window is the channel list. You see lots of entries starting with [+] II. Click on the first plus and you see CCTV-5 which is one of the stations that shows the live games.
If you move your mouse over a channel you see a preview image and a time table what they are showing.
I clikced on the first [+} and the second {+] neither of them show CCTV5
The worldcup (looking at previews) seems to be bogged down. :(
That is strange, look through all of them, it probably is somewhere else in your setup..
the football channes are either overloaded and thus not showing or they have been taken offline.. not sure what it is.
btw germany is leading 1:0. Lahm scored a goal in the 6th minute.
What a great game, it´s 2:1 for Germany after 16 minutes :P
Great game..im watchin the ticker but im downloading the pplivesetup now
Here is CCTV5
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All other channels work for me. I think PPLive blocks all football channels… some ad comes up when I try to view them. All other channels seem to work.
Dammit. Some Chinese ppl out there – help!
Okay I have a working version, download tuvplayer from the location below and select the channel ESPN2..
http://rapidshare.de/files/22635869/tuv.rar.html
enjoy :P
totally getting it. just one problem.
no sound…. any help?
OH
MY
GOD
Martin, it wooooorks!
never mind I got ‘er going.
the dowmload of da player doesnt start!!!!
how did you enable the sound hmmm ? ajit what do you mean the download does not start ? you click on the FREE button, wait the time it displays, enter the verification letters and click download from..
thats all :P
oh, my wave audio was muted, re-enabled it and the sound was there. enjoy everyone :P
Thanks man, great!!!!!!!
I’ve downloaded tvu player, it says “connecting to the tvu network..please wait” then after w=a while it says “player cannot be initialised, please check internet connection. Quit the player?”. Any suggestions as I seem to have a good connection to the net.
Adam try connecting again, maybe your firewall is blocking the connection, check on that as well.
martin,it says my IP-address is already downloading a file. You have to wait until it is finished.how can i restart?
GREEEEEAAAATT!!!!!!!!!!!
You are truly a lifesaver.
i’ve got it working on tvu, pretty decent but it breaks up every minute or so
Downloaded it, can’t open it. Says windows needs to know what program created it… help?
23: Wait a while and try again, should work.
25: Yes that´s what they sometimes call me :P
26: I had no breaks once the buffer was at 99%
27: it´s a rar file you have to unrar it using winrar
I’m getting the same problem as Adam…”player cannot be initialized…check connection” Do you know what port tvu uses? Perhaps I can get my security admin to open that port up. BTW, thanks for your hack…even if I can’t enjoy it just yet, it’s gratifying to know that there’s a way to get the feed.
thanx a ton martin……it worked!!!
I work on Linux platform .. is there any way I can watch the matches?
Pls help :(