I don’t know if this was available all along, but a reader wrote in with instructions as to how to watch the games via ESPN360 — FOR FREE!
Here’s how:
1) Download Flip4Mac
2) Open up QT, pull down the File menu, and select “Open URL”
3) Enter this address: mms://live.espnevent.espn.com.edgestreams.net/reflector:51921
4) Press play.
5) GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
[A million hat tips: woo]
Update: This feed works fine, without the need of a proxy, reports a friend in France.
When I use this URL and plug it into Quicktime, I get the ESPN 360 logo with the following message:
"Thank you for watching the 2006 FIFA World Cup on ESPN360.
Please select another event from the program guide."
Yeah. I'm getting the same error. I watched the Germany game like this with no problem.
mms://live.espnevent.espn.com.edgestreams.net/reflector:57035
That is the url for italy game... they are making it tricky on us...
How do you get those numbers?
Magic... did you get my email? I explained a bit better in that. I searched the DOM on the espn360.com page, found the playlist, got the url from the playlist and voila! Unfortunately, for some reason I couldn't get the new playlist from the DOM on their webpage, so I guessed it, and I guessed right, downloaded the playlist, and got the updated port number from that.
Hey woo, what are the URLs for the games Brazil-France and Portugal-England? Cheers!
Might be worth pointing out that Flip4Mac is not yet available for Intel Macs. The site indicates that a universal binary version is in late beta.
The beta version works fine on intel macs...it's no longer available for download but you can get it from binaries