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June 30, 2006

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How to watch the World Cup on your Mac, 3rd Edition

Posted Jun. 30, ’06, 9:51 AM PT by Cyrus Farivar
Category | Video

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.


8 Comments

Matthew Parcher said:

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."

June 30, 2006 11:46 AM
Cyrus Farivar Author Profile Page said:

Yeah. I'm getting the same error. I watched the Germany game like this with no problem.

June 30, 2006 12:16 PM
woo said:

mms://live.espnevent.espn.com.edgestreams.net/reflector:57035
That is the url for italy game... they are making it tricky on us...

June 30, 2006 12:49 PM
Cyrus Farivar Author Profile Page said:

How do you get those numbers?

June 30, 2006 2:00 PM
woo said:

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.

June 30, 2006 2:29 PM
Pete said:

Hey woo, what are the URLs for the games Brazil-France and Portugal-England? Cheers!

July 1, 2006 12:41 AM
Shelly said:

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.

July 1, 2006 11:56 AM
media_lush said:

The beta version works fine on intel macs...it's no longer available for download but you can get it from binaries

July 1, 2006 4:58 PM

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