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World Cup on iPad?
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Has anyone used tvu player from the app store? It looks like there may be feeds on that app for the world cup. I'm just hesitant about the quality of feeds they offer. http://lifehacker.com/5559652/where-to-watch-world-cup-soccer-streaming-live This article mentions it, along with other options. If someone has some experience, let us know! World cup t minus 9.5 hours! Argentina to win it all!
Are you asking the op what this is or suggesting it? The OP orginally said "Without using either Slingbox/EyeTV or something similar."
Sorry walkingcity, I responded to the wrong post.
Wish I had an answer for you. I may not be a rabid fan, I would certainly like to watch some of the bigger matchups.
Besides, I am so torn over who to cheer for.
I'm American so I cheer the US?
I am from German/Scot/Irish decent so,,,,, forget that, to confusing.
Lived in England for a number of years following football and have a soft spot in my heart for England National Team, so cheer for England?
Married to a Latina, so I cheer for a Latino team?
Nevermind, the world cup is giving me a headache.
You're American, so you are stuck cheering USA for as long as they are in the tournament.
My theory is, if you would qualify to play for a national team, that is the team you should cheer on.
For Instance, I was born in England to English parents with American/English/Irish descent (maternal grandfather's sperm donor was a GI during WW2), paternal great grandfather was Irish. But, FIFA rules mean that I could only play for England. Unless I move abroad, stay for 3 to 5 years and become a citizen.
So I'll be cheering for England until they get knocked out. At which point, I'll be cheering for anyone playing against Argentina, Germany, France or Portugal.
Signed up with BlackVpn and tvcatchup and the vpn service works fine but tvcatchup has blocked all VPN services from accessing their channels. I have tried a variety of channels and my ip shows me as being in the UK. It looks like tvcatchup is no longer an option.
At least it did until two minutes before kick-off when their servers appeared to not be able to cope - guess lots of users logged on!
Not working at all at the moment.
I guess quite a lot of people are trying to access it just now...
Making do with my SlingPlayer iPhone app feed just now.
Hmmm... mine is locking up. I watched for a few quick seconds last night and it was fine. I just didn't watch long enough. It takes about 20secs to start from pushing the "play" icon which I expect and figure is buffering. But then, about 30seconds into the video, it freezes. All channels I've tried. All the same action (freezing). Either wifi at home with great speeds, or on 3G.
Uh oh.
Someone with an iphone downloaded mobiTV from ESPN which is supposed to stream them, but my iPad's app doesn't see it. With a link to the app in app store, the app store throws an error.
I thought I was set. Not so much. I did purchase TVU and will see if I can watch on that.
Chris
I signed up and paid but tvcatchup will not let me sign up for an account. It says can not connect to API. Why is this so hard.
Not that this matters right now since TVcatchup isn't working for you guys. But I've got an ignorant question...
So I signed up for the BlackVPN account on the UK server and got that working, then I go to ipad.tvcatchup.com and try to sign up to watch the game and a message pops up saying "Unfortunately, your country is not currently supported".
Is there anything different that I'm suppose to be doing to sign up? Does being on 3G have something to do with it?
So I signed up for the BlackVPN account on the UK server and got that working, then I go to ipad.tvcatchup.com and try to sign up to watch the game and a message pops up saying "Unfortunately, your country is not currently supported".
Is there anything different that I'm suppose to be doing to sign up? Does being on 3G have something to do with it?
Signing up worked just fine for me yesterday. I got the blackVPN account and that went smoothly. I configured the ipad according to the blackVPN ipad docs. Turned on the VPN in the ipad. Then went to ipad.tvcatchup.com and signed up. The VPN has to be on even if you want to sign up I believe.
EDIT: Just FYI-TVU is working for me. Quality is... hmmm... well... not HD
But it is streaming the game. It was $4 or $5 at app store.Chris
Are you sure that your server in the VPN settings is pointing to the .blackvpn.co.uk address and not the blackvpn.com one
Fortunately in my office there are flatscreen TVs on most walls. Usually they're showing various IT-related environmental statistics, but they've got the WC on now...
No sound, but I'm streaming BBC 5 Live using the excellent Fstream iPhone app.
No sound, but I'm streaming BBC 5 Live using the excellent Fstream iPhone app.
Bleh signed up for blackvpn... But it seems tvcatchup just blocked all vpns, I get "your provider uk2 ltd isn't authorized" :/
Edit: doesn't appear that way to me.
Was all working for me tonight finally. Hopefully will be the same moving forward.
No 20sec wait to start up. No freezing after 20 seconds. Good quality. Maybe they fixed it all. Hoping anyway.
Edit: yep, working like a champ. Blackvpn plus tvcatchup. Was watching isle of wight concert. finally happy with this setup. Tvu was mediocre second choice.
Chris
Blackvpn code of KENRQXB gets you 2 months free--order 3 and it only cost €5.
Can you/anyone please provide some feedback about the quality of the video? I will buy an ipad tomorrow just to be able to watch the games at work
Can you/anyone please provide some feedback about the quality of the video? I will buy an ipad tomorrow just to be able to watch the games at work
It's not HD. And it hits some lag every now and then (so does my cable at home for that matter). But very, very watchable for me... And I like nice video. You can follow the ball easily.
I am very happy with it so far. But I don't think it's a tv replacement. But I lie my tv in HD.
Chris
Blackpvn servers are too slow
I followed all the instructions and setup my iPad to connect to the uk servers for blackpvn and logged on to tvcatchup. Unfortunately, the connection speed is very slow and the video freeze which makes the service useless for me. I am using an iPad in the USA connected through my home wifi to the Internet.
I followed all the instructions and setup my iPad to connect to the uk servers for blackpvn and logged on to tvcatchup. Unfortunately, the connection speed is very slow and the video freeze which makes the service useless for me. I am using an iPad in the USA connected through my home wifi to the Internet.