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Practice (and other sessions) on the internet.

Started by Imperial , Mar 13 2008 08:22

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#1 Imperial

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 08:22

Is F1 still going to be in the dark ages this season or has it joined the 21st Century at last and maybe practice is available on the internet somewhere (tv footage, not timing data)?

I found this website http://www.live-racing.tv/ but don't know how reliable it may be in terms of:

* Are all the sessions listed actually shown (i.e. it shows the practice1,2,3/qually/race times, but are they all actually broadcast through this website/server?)

* Is the streaming speed any good?

* How long will this last before Bernie shuts it down?

* Should I really give £9.95 to some random website that's appeared out of nowhere?

I'd seriously like to watch at least the sessions that will be on during the evening in Europe (I'm at work when the European practice sessions will be on) so I'm not convinced it's worth a tenner to watch sessions from maybe 5 races (Aus, Malaysia, China, Singapore, Japan).

Any other sites showing stuff, for free?

I still can't understand why the official site doesn't show it, it would be less than a drop in the ocean cost-wise for FOM to put that up on their website.

How tight are FOM by the way? You can watch actual Indycar races live on indycar.com, for F1 you can't even watch a practice session for free.....

I'm sure the sponsors wouldn't mind.

#2 undersquare

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 08:50

German TV channel DSF generally show the practice sessions, often delayed to the second half of the afternoon. website www.dsf.de.

I pick it up in the UK on an old analogue satellite system that I originally got for Eurosport. It's free to air, you just need the hardware.

I also use it to tune into another German channel, RTL, for the race, I switch to it during ITV ads - sometimes they overlap but sometimes not.

#3 sainsburypeter

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 15:11

http://www.itv-f1.co...e.aspx?id=41939

#4 Imperial

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 17:03

Best news of the 2008 season thus far!

#5 Frank Booth

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 17:06

good questions Imperial.

Not sure if I trust that site, it seems to good to be true IMO.

#6 Tuxy

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 17:20

About time. Hopefully they start broadcasting races online in the future.

#7 Scudetto

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 17:24

FYI: With TVUPlayer you can watch an internet stream of SpeedTV's F1 coverage via the "Wheels" channel.

#8 montoya_fanatic

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 17:26

I just wanted to give out a little heads up on this. There are sites available for free that show you live streams of F1. I am not going to post them out here..maybe Pm me for details.

I see sites like this all the time and now also on Ebay that basically charge you money for a service like this and then just send you to the free site.

On these free sites the links come up only a few hrs before the stream begins and you need software like TVU player, or SopCast. Maybe this site is legit and he has his own streamers that are dedicated to his service but one will only know after you sign up. He does have a money back gurantee so...

Just my 2 cents

#9 512 TR

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 17:34

It seems that RTL will do the same for Germans (you need a German IP address).

http://sport.rtl.de/...rmel1_82569.php

#10 conkeso

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 18:11

Speed through TVUPlayer was fine last season, hope it's still on this year

#11 Music Man

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 21:06

Originally posted by Scudetto
FYI: With TVUPlayer you can watch an internet stream of SpeedTV's F1 coverage via the "Wheels" channel.

The only downside of this are commercials every 10 minutes that last approximately 5 minutes. And when I watched it, it was always delayed for about 2 minutes. But hey, it's for free, I shouldn't complain :wave:

I'm curious how ITV's internet broadcast will work out. I hope they have enough servers and enough broadband to support it, otherwise the entire thing will be very slow. Well... only two more hours to the first practice session and we'll see how it works out. Looks like I'm staying up late this evening

Edit: now I see it's for UK viewers only... too bad :

#12 Tomecek

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 21:23

Originally posted by Imperial
Is F1 still going to be in the dark ages this season or has it joined the 21st Century at last and maybe practice is available on the internet somewhere (tv footage, not timing data)?

It's not about 21st Century, it's all about money ;)

#13 lukywill

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 21:24

Originally posted by Scudetto
FYI: With TVUPlayer you can watch an internet stream of SpeedTV's F1 coverage via the "Wheels" channel.

sure. but only when they cover the practice sessions. usually they don´t do it. possible they will cover the australian gp. :up:

#14 spwolf

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 21:27

there are p2p programs you can use to watch sports online, usually its pretty good... I hope they will have practice as well, I cant wait! 1:30 to goo!!!!

#15 Domination

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 21:30

Wheels only covers the 3rd free practice before the race IIRC.

#16 Scudetto

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 21:36

Originally posted by lukywill

sure. but only when they cover the practice sessions. usually they don´t do it. possible they will cover the australian gp.

I've never had occasion to use TVUPlayer to watch anything other than Friday practice sessions for the Canadian, US, and Brazilian races, since those are the only ones that take place during my work hours.

However, according to TVU's programming guide they do, in fact, stream the GP's as well.

#17 spwolf

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 21:44

Originally posted by Scudetto

I've never had occasion to use TVUPlayer to watch anything other than Friday practice sessions for the Canadian, US, and Brazilian races, since those are the only ones that take place during my work hours.

However, according to TVU's programming guide they do, in fact, stream the GP's as well.

it is not only TVU... there are othe p2p's that might stream it, and some are considerably better...

#18 clipper

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 22:31

how bout BBC radio are they streaming anything on their site? and if so what is the link to their site?

#19 KiwiF1

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Posted 13 March 2008 - 23:13

Just tried to get the Free Practice from the ITV site, guess what, yes you can't get access unless you are in the UK. I can't understand why the Official site can't broadcast this, I mean it is not as if there is a whole industry that already broadcast the Practice Sessions!!!

Back to watching Live Timing I guess.

#20 volumenzero

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 00:00

It is possible to watch ITV's crappy stream from outside UK ...

you just need Firefox + FoxyProxy add-on + UK proxy adress

I will not spoil you the fun of finding how to make all this work ...

#21 predatore

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 01:50

download "TVants" and watch it on Eurosports.

#22 pio!pio!

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 01:53

http://itv-80.vo.lln...castPlayer.html

you can vary that 80 from 01 to 99 if one gets too congested

#23 ashnathan

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 02:15

Would be appreciated if you kept the link advertising to the itv feed to a minimum so it isnt too congested and slow, thanks.

#24 wingwalker

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 02:24

Originally posted by pio!pio!
http://itv-80.vo.lln...castPlayer.html

you can vary that 80 from 01 to 99 if one gets too congested

will it work for folks outside uk?

#25 Menace

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 02:30

Originally posted by kids like ash
Would be appreciated if you kept the link advertising to the itv feed to a minimum so it isnt too congested and slow, thanks.

But that wouldn't be fair for others, would it? Perhaps it should be only included in the live thread?

#26 ashnathan

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 02:34

let others do what most people did in the first place, experiment and find it, becuase at the end of the day, if everyone is using it, no one will be able to view it because the server will just overload like it did in FP1 and close down for 10 - 15 minutes

its somewhat unfair to people who dont know, but at the same time, telling everyone makes it unfair to the people who took the time to figure it out, for it to just overload and play 5 seconds of footage then buffer for 5 minutes.

#27 pio!pio!

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 05:05

there's 99 servers to choose from tho!!

:D:D
I took the time to figure it out on my own (I'm not UK based, so I needed some sense of skill to do it)
but I don't mind sharing.

I realize one day they will smarten up, but this is the Internet age..spread it around and enjoy it while it lasts. If anything it'll be a wakeup call to FOM to see how many people want a live internet feed around the world

#28 Frank Booth

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 12:24

Double big thumbs up to the afore mentioned link and the very generous poster who provided it. :kiss:

#29 volumenzero

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 13:39

Originally posted by kids like ash
Would be appreciated if you kept the link advertising to the itv feed to a minimum so it isnt too congested and slow, thanks.

I really don't like people who doesn't like to share ...

#30 Blue

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 13:57

How was the quality of ITV compared to TVUplayer?

Here is the link for my old favorite p2ptv sport schedule page, it seems TVUplayer is out of formula channels, only sopcast working (and that is slow time to time).
http://www.myp2p.eu/...s&allowedDays=1

#31 lukywill

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 15:50

the quality was brilliant. the image. some people say it was 6'' delay. fantastic. spocast was about 2'.

#32 Blue

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 19:05

Originally posted by lukywill
the quality was brilliant. the image. some people say it was 6'' delay. fantastic. spocast was about 2'.

Thank you! I will be heading there too

I hope they deliver! (and not crash)

#33 montoya_fanatic

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Posted 14 March 2008 - 23:32

According to ITV they are not streaming Free Practice 3??

Does anyone know where a stream of pree practice 3 will be??

PLEASE!

#34 eliteboy

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Posted 21 March 2008 - 17:11

I live in the UK and the link desn't wrk. Can someone explain why?

"Sorry, rights restrictions prevent us from displaying this video content to users outside the UK"

It says the abve.

What is the solution?

Thanks

#35 snx843

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 01:44

So nowhere showing FP3 then?

#36 travbrad

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 02:04

Looks like it will be shown on Sopcast. http://myp2p.eu/broa...693&part=sports for details

The stream isn't online right now, but hopefully that's just because it hasn't started yet?

#37 snx843

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 02:12

Typical halfbaked job by ITV...WTF?

#38 snx843

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 02:17

Any Internet Feeds to FP3, ITV have let us down, halfbaked coverage,

#39 mach4

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 03:02

Originally posted by snx843
Any Internet Feeds to FP3, ITV have let us down, halfbaked coverage,

http://www.tvlizer.c.../view/203/335/#

#40 Just

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 03:14

There's also channel 44000 on SopCast (requires VLC). Not in English, though, and very choppy. :/

#41 snx843

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 03:14

I know of this, its not worth watching at that size...

Thanks anyway.

#42 travbrad

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 03:37

Yeah the Sopcast stream is having problems today, but it seems to have smoothed out for the time being. It seems like at least equal quality as the ITV stream, when it's not choppy. It's already been mentioned multiple times though, so I guess snx doesn't want to put in the little effort it takes to install 2 programs, his loss

#43 OfficeLinebacker

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 03:42

I am having good luck with the motorsports 44k, not too choppy, but I don't know what to compare to.

#44 snx843

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 04:03

44K has been perfect. Better than ITV!

#45 OfficeLinebacker

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 04:06

What language are they speaking?

#46 travbrad

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 04:06

It got choppy again literally seconds after they had all crossed the line, but it stayed smooth during the rest of the session

Sounded like Romanian or something, but I'm probably way off

#47 Suntrek

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 04:14

Originally posted by travbrad
It got choppy again literally seconds after they had all crossed the line, but it stayed smooth during the rest of the session

Sounded like Romanian or something, but I'm probably way off

It's Swedish.

#48 travbrad

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 04:19

Well I was right about one thing (being way off) lol

#49 snx843

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 04:19

I only got it running @ 28mins in...Was fine!

#50 Just

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Posted 22 March 2008 - 04:23

I'd have preferred English commentary though. What happened to the Wheels channel on TVU?

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