Tour de France - streaming video?
Tour de France - streaming video?
I've been trying to watch the tour using the "versus" live video streaming link accessed from this page. Unfortunately it's unwatchable due to near constant freezing, both on WMP and RealPlayer. I don't know much about this sort of stuff - is the problem likely to be with the link or with my software/hardware/connection? I'm using ADSL at about 416Kb/s (according to an online bandwith test).
I missed it completely today (MIL's birthday) but i think it's live on Eurosport everyday anyway, there's also a highlights package at 11pm tonight although they will both be in Finnish unfortunately, still might learn some lingo. 
You could try here, http://www.myp2p.eu/Other.htm, (scroll down) they seem to have it, i'll try tomorrow and see how both my link and your link work.
You could also go here http://www.uknova.com/wsgi/index, i'll be 'visiting' daily as UK C4 coverage is good.
You could try here, http://www.myp2p.eu/Other.htm, (scroll down) they seem to have it, i'll try tomorrow and see how both my link and your link work.
You could also go here http://www.uknova.com/wsgi/index, i'll be 'visiting' daily as UK C4 coverage is good.
I don't have cable or anything at the moment so no Eurosport unfortunately, but this P2P thing looks like its the way to go, thanks!
I think my problem with the link I gave is that my connection is only 512kb/s and it's optimised for about 1Mb/s. Spent half the day fiddling blindly with the advanced settings on various media players, very frustrating. Theoretically the PerfectPlay/LivePause feature on RealPlayer should let you buffer as much as you want to compensate for a slow connection (at the expense of a big delay) but I couldn't get the damn thing to work.
I think my problem with the link I gave is that my connection is only 512kb/s and it's optimised for about 1Mb/s. Spent half the day fiddling blindly with the advanced settings on various media players, very frustrating. Theoretically the PerfectPlay/LivePause feature on RealPlayer should let you buffer as much as you want to compensate for a slow connection (at the expense of a big delay) but I couldn't get the damn thing to work.
I don't think it's on 'cable', I thought Eurosport was just on the analogue signal like MTV? ie. i can't watch it when the digi tv is on but when i switch to analogue i get those two and bbcworld etc.
I don't quite understand all the systems, my flatscreen has analogue set up and a digital button which gives me JIM tv, YLE Teema etc. But i also have a digibox (no subscription) which offers me a few more channels. Needless to say i normally miss everything 'cos i don't know which button to press.
In an attempt to sound like i know what i'm talking about turn the buffering to 30 secs. Sorry can't really offer any more tech advice as I can probably say more in Finnish than i can in computer speak 
Ramble over, good luck watching tomorrow.
I don't quite understand all the systems, my flatscreen has analogue set up and a digital button which gives me JIM tv, YLE Teema etc. But i also have a digibox (no subscription) which offers me a few more channels. Needless to say i normally miss everything 'cos i don't know which button to press.
In an attempt to sound like i know what i'm talking about
turn the buffering to 30 secs. Sorry can't really offer any more tech advice as I can probably say more in Finnish than i can in computer speak Ramble over, good luck watching tomorrow.