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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[...] Take this for what it is. I was browsing the internet to see what kind of coverage I could find on the World Cup. I ran across a website that says how to get WorldCup coverage in English. Luckily it doesn’t matter so much because it is being done on ESPN2 which is standard for cable these days. It is amazing that the technology is there to stream TV online. The next year or 2 is going to be amazing as the tv streaming gets even better and better. It will soon replace TV with internet TV like the IP phone is doing with regular phones. [...]
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[...] Yesterday, I watched the end of the Australia-Japan match and the start of the United States-Czech Republic encounter via peer-to-peer Internet broadcast of the ESPN 2 feed and the quality was great. (Click on photos to view larger images) It’s a bit better than the quality you get from YouTube and Google videos. You can get the application here. You can also check my previous post on other options in watching the games online. [...]
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World Cup Online
Great that the BBC is broadcasting all the World Cup matches via its website (and Wimbledon as well). I’ve normally tuned into the webcasts, whether the Olympics or the national events as usually they give the best choice, allowing you…
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[...] I was looking for a way to watch the Word Cup in Germany on my Mac while I’m at work, so I don’t have to take these long lunch breaks all the time… if you live in the UK, you can just watch the games on BBC… but I don’t… so, I stumbled upon this post. Thanks to my new MacBook, running Windows XP in Parallels, I can now stream every game live! Follow the download link and select ESPN2… voila…! [...]
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How To Watch Free Soccer On The Internet Including The World Cup
gHacks have produced a great guide on how to watch the WorldCup Online. I’ve just tried it out and the quality is surprisingly very good. All you have to do is download the latest Tuvplayer version from Rapidshare and select the channel ESPN2, …
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TVU player is not working for me today altogether. anyone know how to make it work?
Is it working for others?
Tvu player is not working again.Cant watch Brazil vs Ghana.Sobs………………
does it usually do that? any hope it will be back anytime soon.. ?
hi there its not working for me either maybe try univision though its low quality…any1 noe wats the prob if tvu stops at connecting channel..help appreciated..
It worked for me for most of the first half of France v Spain, then packed up
same here, worked the 1st half of france vs spain, then stopped
Holy smokes, Martin, you genius!!! It freakin works!
Watching ESPN2 rightfrom my PC. Thanks for taking the time to post all this up.
ESPN360 is also now free until July 19th. The quality is better than anything listed here I think. Espescially from a queuing standpoint. Here’s a review:
http://www.crashutah.com/blog/juanchito/2006/06/30/espn-360-free-july-1-july-19-all-world-cup-matches-online-free/
Just want to say thanks for ESPN360 works in Canada
TVuplayer is not working, also there site is down, anybody any idea when it will be up again.
How do you get ESPN 360 to work in Canada?
Hi,
ESPN 360 is only showing the live event in USA.. can please someone help as i want to watch the second semi final and none is working (i.e. tvuplayer or sopcast).
This site provide information on how to stream World Cup online..
http://www.lucas.md/worldcup.php
And it’s easy and fast
I downloaded a number of P2P clients for the final game, but wanted to say thanks for turning me on to TVU, because it’s working “quite okay.”
i used a slingbox hosting company in the uk (connected to a sky digbox)
(i live in spain)