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Justin says, June 15th, 2006   

tvuplayer worked very well for me intitially but now i’m getting an error:

“The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022). Click on OK to terminate the application.”

I’ve rebooted, reinstalled, googled and changed permissions on some dlls but can’t seem to find a fix. Maybe this is a more general windows issue but I can’t find a fix. Any ideas?

Grumbler says, June 16th, 2006   
Justin says, June 16th, 2006   

oh. i figured it out. spyware can pick up TVU Player because of the open remote connection. changing the name of the exe or adding it to a list of allowed programs will fix the issue.

arnie says, June 16th, 2006   

tvuplayer will no longer connect to tvu network - log file says “Peer sc can not be initialized.”

Avandia says, June 16th, 2006   

tvu player will no longer connect to tvu network, is that on my end or are other people having this problem now?

or says, June 16th, 2006   

I got this message:

CHRect
————————————————
Plater can not be initialized, please check the network connection.
Quit the player?
————————————————

What should I do?

tim says, June 16th, 2006   

was working fine until today, now i’m also getting the “Peer sc can not be intialized” error. is this everyone?

Kurt says, June 16th, 2006   

Likewise, this was working fine this morning for the 1st half of the Arg match. Was just trying to reconnect, but am getting the same “Player cannot be initialized, please check the network connection.”

Log:
16:41:34 June 14, 2006 => Failed to update the channel list data in memory
16:41:34 June 14, 2006 => failed to update the channel list data, when initiating
16:41:34 June 14, 2006 => failed to update the peer server list data, when initiating
16:41:34 June 14, 2006 => SC service port initialized:12284
16:41:34 June 14, 2006 => Local play port: 8901
16:41:37 June 14, 2006 => Peer sc has been initialized…

Jorge says, June 16th, 2006   

same here i was watching every game and got to work this morning and goth the same message help!!! i want to see Holland play

y2k says, June 16th, 2006   

Ya, i having the same problem, any solution?

Joel says, June 16th, 2006   

Looks like it’s everyone. I thought my work closed the port (can’t imagine the bandwidth this thing is sucking up), but then I Terminal Serviced into my home PC and it’s not working there either. My guess is their servers can’t handle the insane amount of bandwidth being asked of it. The entirety of PwC Mexico has this thing installed on their desktop to watch the cup …

Jay says, June 16th, 2006   

Me Too

MJ says, June 16th, 2006   

Network issues?

Blade says, June 16th, 2006   

Same problem as Kurt and or

Log:

22:24:57 June 16, 2006 => Peer sc can not be initialized…

22:25:26 June 16, 2006 => Peer sc can not be initialized…

22:25:28 June 16, 2006 => channel : Failed to connect

Help some one Plz

diego says, June 16th, 2006   

i cant connect to the network either. is the network or is it my computer?

Graham says, June 16th, 2006   

Yep, same failed to initialzie as everyone else. I hope they fix it soon! i want to watch the football matches!!

Jorge says, June 16th, 2006   

Is there another free program that we can use like the Tvu player??

MJ says, June 16th, 2006   

Looks like it is their problem.

Bummer.

Joel says, June 16th, 2006   

None that I am aware of.

rabel says, June 16th, 2006   

Curses, same problem here. Was working fine the last couple of days, and today I’m getting this:

09:20:03 June 16, 2006 => channel : Failed to connect
09:20:25 June 16, 2006 => success to update the channel list data in memory
09:20:25 June 16, 2006 => success to update the channel list data in UI
09:20:25 June 16, 2006 => SC service port initialized:10376
09:20:25 June 16, 2006 => Local play port: 8901
09:21:02 June 16, 2006 => Peer sc can not be initialized…

Graham says, June 16th, 2006   

http://www.tvants.com, its mostly chinese channels, but it works.. I dont think its nearly as good as TVU Player, but its something.

Blade says, June 16th, 2006   

What channel?

Angel says, June 16th, 2006   

Hi everybody,

I have the same problem,

Peer sc can not be initialized…

Is there something I can do??? I need the World Cup.

rain says, June 16th, 2006   

I’ve the same problem…

John says, June 16th, 2006   

We’re all having the same problem here in Hong Kong, despite the mega bandwidths available here. We’ll just have to wait until they sort the problem out. Oh well, another excuse to go to the pub!

Jorge says, June 16th, 2006   

OK ITS TIME TO PANIC!!! I hope its fixed by the start of the Holland game I want to see that game

Angga says, June 16th, 2006   

Same problem in Singapore ……. watch Argentine vs Serbia-Montenegro, suddenly it stop at the 2nd-half …….. now can not connect.

crystal says, June 16th, 2006   

has no one made a mirror of this tvants program. sheesh.

Dany says, June 16th, 2006   

Same problem in Portugal! Server is down, almost certain! When will it be back on-line?? Anyone knows???

cliff says, June 16th, 2006   

Yeah I am getting the exact same thing here in the USA. Worked fine till today. I thought work had blocked me as well, but see they are haing problems.

dom says, June 16th, 2006   

Yep same problem here in Boston. Worked fine until this morning. Sucks, Argentina had an amazing game apparently. Well, now I can’t procrastinate anymore…

Angel says, June 16th, 2006   

Has anybody contacted them and told them??
Same problem in USA.
i hope it is just for an hour or so…

Jeff says, June 16th, 2006   

US still no connection. Hup Holland!!!

Martin says, June 16th, 2006   

They seem to be fixing it, just wait..

JonnyDrama says, June 16th, 2006   

yep, seems to be problem with TVU, not our local installs. I guess the popularity of the program got out - and now thousands have it installed :-(

Shhhh - don’t tell anyone else about it!

Jay says, June 16th, 2006   

out of all days…i get to miss a team score 6 goals…….sigh…

charls says, June 16th, 2006   

Was working fine the whole week until today. Hopefully they can fix it soon. Getting same erros as everyone else here in US (GA)…..

y2k says, June 16th, 2006   

Now, let’s hope that everything got well and here we are watching the Holland match

jayce says, June 16th, 2006   

guys, try d/ling tvants http://www.football4less.com/streams/tvants.html here’s the link… search for ESPN after installing.. hope this helps…

Rosco says, June 16th, 2006   

this world cup is turing into a disaster for me every bit of web softeare and proxy tricks I used are failing. aaaah! guess its back to Taiwanese local coverage with 4 ads per game!!

tim says, June 16th, 2006   

tvants works great with cctv5

Nole95 says, June 16th, 2006   

Same problem here in Atlanta, GA. Stopped working right at halftime. Thought my office might have shut it down, but it does not work at home either. Must be their issue.

Matt says, June 16th, 2006   

This is a disaster, i’ve been waiting all morning for the Netherlands game and the player disconnected during the second half of the Argentina game. Hopefully they fix this soon, The netherlands game isnt being broadcasted here in Canada…:(

le stOOsh says, June 16th, 2006   

i’m in atlanta too. i didn’t know there were other soccer fans around here…

now even the viidoo.com website is down. if it doesn’t get fixed today, at least all those watching TVU at work can switch to watching games at home or a bar, right?!?!?

jayce says, June 16th, 2006   

cctv5 is the best i can get guys…u can try soccer-live tv if u know foreign language..

cliff says, June 16th, 2006   

Which cctv5 are you doing mine is in chinese i think.

viewer30 says, June 16th, 2006   

Does anyone know how to contact TVUNetworks ?

Jorge says, June 16th, 2006   

I live in Atlanta too so there is no espn 2 on that Tvants program?

le stOOsh says, June 16th, 2006   

i meant, we can watch games at home or a bar this weekend, and we’ll only miss the holland game, and hopefully it’ll be fixed over the weekend.

Flavio says, June 16th, 2006   

Same problem here in Italy :(((

cliff says, June 16th, 2006   

Yeah from their website they have some phone numbers.

http://www.tvunetworks.com/contact_us/index.htm

Matt says, June 16th, 2006   

I don’t have spotsnet :(, only TSN.

Martin says, June 16th, 2006   

I already send them an email, waiting for an answer.

jayce says, June 16th, 2006   

cctv-5 is in chinese.. tat’s the best i can find…it ’s this CCTV5阳光世界æ?¯ï¼ˆæŽ¨è??) for ppl who dun understand chinese.. once i find out how to find ESPN2 ch i’ll get to u guys provided tvu’s stil down…

Cameron says, June 16th, 2006   

Is there any english commentary????

Matt says, June 16th, 2006   

This is ridiculous, i can’t understand a thing these guys are saying, but i guess it’s better then nothing.

le stOOsh says, June 16th, 2006   

tvants is working great, although it’s not as simple of a program as TVU.

does any know for sure if tvants has ESPN2 ? of course it’s easy to find regular old ESPN, but ESPN@ is a whole different matter…

Lee says, June 16th, 2006   

You can watch using tvants (mute it) and then listen with http://clients.mediaondemand.net/theSun/?Channel=1

The only issue is that the audio commentary is ahead of the video … by about 30 of 40 seconds

Lee says, June 16th, 2006   

actually i’m wrong - it’s more like 2 minutes ahead of the video … so one or the other :)

Simon says, June 16th, 2006   

I think the game’s on ESPN2. Anyone know the TVAnts tracker for that one?

Zé says, June 16th, 2006   

i can´t use tvants. The chennel never loads. I’m using a router, do i need to open some ports?

thanks in advance

Sean says, June 16th, 2006   

It’s baaacckkk in New York!

oh says, June 16th, 2006   

yeeee

Angel says, June 16th, 2006   

Still down in Boston…

oh says, June 16th, 2006   

Not in Hong kong

oh says, June 16th, 2006   

GOALLLLLLLL

xakia says, June 16th, 2006   

the http://viidoo.com/ website is also down, so it is probably related. 2-0 holland

Ignat says, June 16th, 2006   

I am in New york and it’s not working

Lime D. Zeze says, June 16th, 2006   

In Seattle and TVU not working.
I was able to get TVants to work, though. You just need to be patient. Oh…there’s Ruud!

Adrian says, June 16th, 2006   

TVANTS id down too. guess there’s no way to watch the games on internet.

Hemmi says, June 16th, 2006   

not working in Iceland

Adrian says, June 16th, 2006   

Hi owen. What sever are you using, please click on the servers tab. Thanks

Lelinho says, June 16th, 2006   

Not working in Portugal… :(

shiirley says, June 16th, 2006   

Not working in UK too. :( BBC doesn’t recognise my IP address as UK-based, and I have relied on TVU Player to get my World Cup fix. As far as I know, it’s not working in Malaysia either.

As for those who can’t get TVAnts to stream properly, find a channel which has lower bitrate. It should solve the problem.

Owen says, June 16th, 2006   

Adrian> it shows

http://www.tvants.com

I’m watching CCtv5. quality ~85, 457kbps

Makkawi says, June 16th, 2006   

not working in Egypt either

oh says, June 16th, 2006   

still down in Hong Kong

Mike NY says, June 16th, 2006   

Still down in NY/NJ. Any news when it will come back up?

badchine says, June 16th, 2006   

its not working in mexico

chinapot says, June 16th, 2006   

i wonder how many people were seeing the games through the tvunetwork …

raj says, June 16th, 2006   

I cannot connect to CCTV5 or any channel on TV Ants. I use a proxy server at work. Can someone send me the Advanced Options / Settings for tvant.

raj says, June 16th, 2006   

CAN SOMEONE who has TVANTS working send out the server they are using and also any other PROXY SERVER settings

Fabio says, June 16th, 2006   

Just go on CHANNEL, then ADD and insert this URL: tvants://www.tvants.com/tvants/?k=308b75436d18dc79
The server is http://www.tvants.com. Hope it helps :)

Jim says, June 16th, 2006   

You do have to have a proxy server enabled. I only had to put a check in that box. Go to Tools–>Setttings–>Proxy.

raj says, June 16th, 2006   

Steve, I did that already . Do I need to do any other TICK marks on the proxy tab. ANd how about the SHARE tab.

Tomarsh says, June 16th, 2006   

Not working in Israel either. Damn ! couldn’t they anticipate such a rush ?

Lenz says, June 16th, 2006   

I have a program called Sopcast…although seems it’s also having issues as I haven’t been able to connect today. Maybe others will have better luck.

brendan says, June 16th, 2006   

I heard TVU got attacked today, and that’s why it’s down. There’s also a rumor that they’ve gone to PPV.

pleve says, June 16th, 2006   

I’ve got the same problems here in Humboldt, CA.

Sami says, June 16th, 2006   

No need to modify the sitting , the problem is happening with user from all over the world. We just have to wait and keep trying , if doesn’t get resolved by tomorrow then I think this site go busted and maybe shutdown already which I hope not.

Sean says, June 16th, 2006   

XML document must have a top level element. Error processing resource ‘http://www.tvunetworks.com/update/updateinfo.xml’.

There seems to be a problem with this file…

Miguel says, June 16th, 2006   

Damn… i thought yesterday:hey this is great the world cup with such definition and in english..i saw all games.. today only the first half of arg..maybe they got shut down by fifa..:S

Sean says, June 16th, 2006   

i am in an office here in New York and one person is in and the rest of us are geting the same “player can no intitalize”… err…

Miguel says, June 16th, 2006   

Sean, you mean someone is able to connect to tvu network???i’m watching the chinese crap…not that bad the image, though..

Quakedevil says, June 16th, 2006   

next match can be seen at espn(tvants) mex:ang

Simon says, June 16th, 2006   

Sopcast was down earlier but it’s working again now. There appear to be considerable efforts going on to stop Internet TV World Cup coverage, presumably directed by those who hold the broadcast rights (isn’t Yahoo the ultimate owner of them?). A Spanish site called TVfutbol (I live in Barcelona) giving links for seeing matches was apparently closed down earlier this week. The only thing to do seems to be to have as many TV player programs as possible and switch between them. I saw Holland v Ivory Coast in TVAnts, for example. Now I’m going back to Sopcast for the last match because I think the quality’s a bit better.

dubaidog says, June 16th, 2006   

Went down at Arg-S+M half time, checked viidoo site and in the shoutbox people talking about a denial of service attack. Then that site went down. tvants is a reasonable alternative, I have not been able to get pplive or ppstream running here in Dubai.

Now how do you get decent commentary… you can try BBC Radio 5 Live, however you need to configure your real player with an open UK proxy with port 80. Here is the link that needs to load in the real player: rtsp://rmlivev8acl.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radio5/live/r5_tl_g2.ra

The nice thing about this is that you can match the commentary with the game on CCTV1/5. I have to say its more informed than ESPN2 American commentary who havn’t got a clue.

Keep internet tv alive !

greenheart says, June 16th, 2006   

hi in portugal still down

nyc says, June 16th, 2006   

strong move on sopcast. tvants wasn’t working for me, but sopcast sure cast some soap on my world cup watching dirtiness

Sean says, June 16th, 2006   

Yes, I am watching ESPN2 on his TVUplayer right now… Omly wish it was on my PC!! I havent had anyluck with tvants yet, will try the sopcast

Miguel says, June 16th, 2006   

yeah i’m in Portugal too..i’ll keep up the fight and i wont pay to see the world cup..it’s outrageous what “someone” seems to be doing to prevent us from seeing the games for free!! thankfully sopcast is still working, but for haw long??..

shiirley says, June 16th, 2006   

THANK GOD! TVUPLAYER IS BACK!!!

brendan says, June 16th, 2006   

It’s almost working for me. I don’t get the error message, but it won’t connect to a channel.

Angel says, June 16th, 2006   

It is back in Boston too,

cheers