World Cup Streaming & Downloading

Written by Ernesto on June 10, 2006 

Wired published an article on how to watch the World Cup on your PC. Over 750million people watch the World Cup on TV, but the article can be useful in case your TV breaks down, or if you’re stuck behind your desk.

A short piece of the article:

Download a P2P streaming player from the forum Football Streaming Info, which is stuffed full of links to downloads and tips if you get into technical trouble. TvAnts is a front-runner due to its ease of use — a big plus is that the channel menu is mostly in English, unlike many of the other players which seem to be in Chinese.

Once you have a player installed, a clear and detailed schedule of the day’s games and where to view them can be found at BoxtoBox.

Wired also points their readers to BitTorrent. The World Cup matches are posted on several trackers within a few minutes. No real-time streaming, but very useful if you miss a game.

Over at tvRSS you can find some matches in hr.hdtv, and subscribe to the world cup rss feed.

Update:

In a previous article I pointed to the article in Wired, with some tips and tricks to watch the world cup online. But it seems that quite a lot of people still have problems watching world cup streams online. Don’t worry, there’s another p2p world cup stream player, and it’s easier to use.

People from the UK can use the BBC streams. The rest of the world should try the TVUplayer.

Tune in to the ESPN2 channel for English commentary, and you’re ready to go.

tvuplayer

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13 Responses (Add yours)

1 Jun 10, 2006 at 12:26 by Niek

Regarding live streams: Dutch TV station “Nederland 2″ is watchable via this live stream: http://stream.crossmediaventures.com/talpastream2

2 Jun 10, 2006 at 12:33 by Jeremy

50 billion people watching? I think that’s a bit of a typo :)

(The entire world comprises of around 6 billion people in total)

3 Jun 10, 2006 at 12:51 by Ernesto

That’s the predicted number of viewers for all (64) matches. But it’s a bit misleading ;)

4 Jun 11, 2006 at 16:29 by sm!f

Most matches are being streamed by the BBC on their news site. The quality is excellent and its very efficient, no continous buffering which makes a change.

5 Jun 13, 2006 at 15:56 by Joe

what is the bbc site to see the streaming

6 Jun 13, 2006 at 18:02 by Ernesto

BBC World Cup

But it’s UK only :(

So you need a UK proxy

7 Jun 16, 2006 at 00:11 by cat

Hey thanks, TVUPlayer is awesome!

8 Jun 19, 2006 at 12:59 by bbcproxy

You can always pay for true UK proxy to view BBC broadcasts.

link edited by admin, we’re not paying for anything ;)

9 Jun 19, 2006 at 15:45 by WCFeed

http://livetvfeeds.blogspot.com/

Has most world cup games.

10 Jun 19, 2006 at 18:47 by Monkey

Is there a program for the MAC OS?

11 Jun 19, 2006 at 19:12 by Ernesto

Monkey, try to run tvuplayer through virtual pc

Ot try http://www.peercast.org/

12 Jun 21, 2006 at 23:38 by alec

tvuplayer.exe encounter a problem ….
i dont know how to fix that anuonecould help me please

13 Jun 24, 2006 at 16:09 by minomus

Only audio coming with TVUplayer :I

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