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How to Watch BBC Online World Cup Coverage Outside the UK

   

A couple of days ago I posted about the various media outlets that will be streaming World Cup games live on the Internet. A couple of readers have sent some resources that might help you to enjoy the BBC’s online streams even if you don’t live in the UK. Since the games haven’t started yet it is hard to say whether this will work, but for those who want to give it a shot, this article has some suggestions how to do it. You have to be pretty tech savvy to understand it so hire the nerdy kid next door to figure it out for you. Feel free to drop me a line and let me know if it works for you. Best of luck in your pirating efforts.


  • Michael

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    http://www.soft29.com/fifa-world-cup/record-streaming-video.html

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  • Mary

    A priceless photo!!!!

  • tim

    i’ve been trying to get this procy thing to work and i’ve found some decent proxies but I fear the bbc may be on to this? has anyone found one that actually lets them watch?

    if so please post that or drop me a line th3boon at yahoo dot com

  • Don

    It did not work for me as well.Good luck!

  • madflava

    Someone needs to set up a pirate server so we can listen to the BBC broadcasts. There are no online options to listen to the games. XM Radio Online is not carrying their WC station on their online version of their service.

  • owen

    I was one of the people who forwarded this on – I had heard that the BBC was on to this and I know they are relatively sophisticated over there so it may not work – of course, all the UK proxies I ahve found today are overloaded and mostly failing – wonder why?…

    the other thing to try is do a search on livefooty – they are doing some streams out of china – but you have to use IE and trust plugins that are all in CHinese not to be trojaning you up – they aren’t working real well for me today but they have in the past – plus you get the game with chinese commentary….

  • Andy Bright

    The BBC have definitely taken the proxy idea into consideration, and it definitely won’t work (I know, I’ve tried using 2 UK proxies).

    They’ve probably got a list of UK broadband service ip addresses, and if you’re not using a UK internet provider you’ve got no hope of beating this, except for one way.

    You’d have to know someone in the UK who’d be willing to let you remote control their PC, i.e. view the video from their computer using something like gotomypc or whatever.

    This works (I know I’ve successfully done this via my little brother’s PC back home in the UK), but there is one final option if you don’t mind viewing the games about an hour after they’ve finished.

    As most of you seem to be posting from the US, given the 4-10 hour (depending on your time zone) time difference, you may be okay with watching highlights directly from the FIFA website.

    Obviously you can watch them on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNHD but for those of us that have real Irish relatives, listening to that Leprechaun impersonator on ESPN is somewhat galling.

    What is it with second and third generation Irish Americans insisting on using blatently fake Irish accents.

    My family came over during the last world cup and just about died laughing after I started the England / Nigeria game – hey at least it gave the game some entertainment value, as opposed to the dour 0:0.

  • junior

    does anyone know where i can at least listen to live commentary ?? I can live with that.

  • Angela

    my dad iz looking for a place to watch it online…badly -_-b

  • Andy

    No luck here either.

    Andy Bright wrote:
    “What is it with second and third generation Irish Americans insisting on using blatently fake Irish accents.”

    I live in Boston in the States and I’ve never heard of any second or third gen Irish speaking with fake accents. Actually many of my Irish friends who were born in Ireland have lost their accents. Its hard for me to imagine that someone on TV is actually faking it. Doesn’t make any sense.

  • Jon

    most may have found it by now but The Sun is broadcasting audio of all the games online and no need for the proxie dance

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006260665,00.html

  • Malta

    Try TVUplayer!! It shows games on ESPN2 and Univision! It works for me although quality is not often that good!

  • http://www.tvants.com Trais

    Yeah…I cant find ANYwhere online that is streaming live radio of Fifa 06. I am spun out by this .. thought we could all listen to football on line no problem..but no.

    Anyway..go to TVants and download the software, and then find CCTV5 (from China) click the link..you can watch live world cup there..It works!! For PC only though..Sorry Mac people. If anyone knows where I can hear ENGLISH radio of the cup..let me know.
    Good luck people!
    It takes some time to connect..so hang in there..this isnt as convenient as normal TV but I find it is pretty stable.

    Travis from Australia..but living in Taiwan!

  • Beverly

    England is playing at 12pm EST and still can’t find anyway to watch online at work…HELP!

    USA

  • Jose Antonio

    thanks for the sun.co.uk tip…

    i almost quit the search for listening the games but with this it si all solved!!!!

  • Wred

    Downloaded TV ants :)
    got the link for CCTV 5 … turned off the volume….

    Went to the Sun and used their link to listen to the audio commentary

  • Tong Khai Wah

    Downloaded tvants software. Clicked on CCTV5 link. Black window pops up to say wait a few minutes. Zilch… until now since 9 June. Anyone can offer some help on why this is happening. Thanks.

  • Rooop

    Download PPstream, choose CCTV-5
    And listen to the sun

  • ahmed

    I downloaded Tvants. The program seems to operate except that it asks for a login and a password. can anyone tell me what to do please? I really want to watch the game

  • AJ

    TVUplayer!! I followed advice from Malta! Thanx, Games played on ESPN2 in USA. Streaming video works great if you work at a place with high bandwidth! Google TVUplayer Freeware and download.. No Malware on my PC either..

  • awameh

    heeey all you can try the below link

    http://mediahopper.com/portal.htm?http://mediahopper.com/sports_tv/index.html

    im watching the game right now :)

  • Frank

    TVU player is perfect – THANK YOU!!!!

  • chris

    Put your name in first box and you can leave the second one blank!

  • MXY

    RE: PPSTream – Installed – WHERE’S CCTV 5??? Do you have to direct it to the website??? Can’t find it (And I can read chinese!!!)

  • TY

    YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!!! I DOWNLOADED TVU AND AM NOW WATCHING THE ENGLAND GAME!!! http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/TVUPlayer-Download-35047.html

  • Rish

    just get sky digital and watch everything and has bbc and american channels and chinese and loads others..tho it will cost u loads..

  • kaj

    VIVA LA ITALIA!

    ITALIA WON! ITALIA WON!

  • kaj

    (as watched from TVUplayer!)

  • Ameh Charlse

    I said how to watch free african nations cup online not world cup dummies

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