Streaming BBC live: VPN is the easy solution

Your have mail Vig..

 

I watch them live on the BBC Sport site but they are also available in Iplayer

 

Good to know you found a good provider

I might try them later in the year when I get sick of illegal feeds getting deleted mid race

 

The bbc isnt that great anymore, we get the bbc feed.

 

Thanks for the tip...

I may go ahead and buy a StrongVPN subscription so I can watch it on the big screen through my HTPC.

Can you maximize the iPlayer to full screen?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/f1 will have video during the practice sessions (or at least it did last season!)


motd

 

I think the British F1 feed went down the toilet when the BBC didn't sign James Allen along with Martin Brundle from ITV. Instead they brought in Jonathan Legard and Brundle and Legard just don't seem to flow quite as well as Brundle and Allen in my mind.

 

Not running Windows 7 on either of the computers I used since P1 Friday and still had re-occuring issues with the F1 live timing. Problem was resolved mostly when I reloaded the most current Java program.

carol

 

I just signed up for the StrongVPN and went through the verification process. I'll report how well it works later this evening. This is the process I went through to sign up, though...

First, I went to the website and ordered the 3 city $55/year package. I have no idea what "3 city" means.

After paying (via PayPal, in my case), I was directed to a page to verify myself. The page cryptically was asking for me to scan my id and credit card and upload the images. This seemed weird, so I clicked one of the "live chat" links to speak with someone.

After a couple of minutes I was chatting via live chat with a Russian guy who told me that he needed to call me to verify some details regarding my order. I'm in Santiago on business at the moment, so I gave him my hotel phone number. After a couple more minutes my phone rang. Valadimir (in very good English) asked me to verify what I had ordered and how I had paid. He then thanked me and told me that he would send me my account details.

Immediately after the call I received an email from the company with my invoice information. I'm assuming that now I just need to log into my account using my email address and supplied password to download the VPN software. I'll do that in an hour or so and report back.

 

Getting rid of James "FANBOI" Allen was the greatest thing to ever happen to the sport

 

thanks for any report - I'm debating on this or subscribing to filmon - unfortunately filmon doesn't work on my iphone and I'm wondering if VPN would work on an iphone or possibly on a 3G iPad if the 3G iPad has GSM.

Carol

 

ptpp VPN's work on iphones.

I posted this in the other thread but here is a list of VPN companies http://myvpnreviews.com/

 

What are you on about this is its 2nd year in the short term, it's the best it's been for ages, and NO ADVERTS!.

 

Well, heck. OpenVPN may not work for me.

After validating myself with Vladimir, I went back to the OpenVPN website and watched a flash video showing me how to configure the built-in Microsoft VPN software to access the OpenVPN servers. (So, no files to download. That's good.)

Initially I was directed to a server in San Francisco. I had to go back to OpenVPN help to get the list of servers in the UK. I reconfigured my VPN with the settings and, bingo! I can now watch videos from the BBC iPlayer website!

Unfortunately, iPlayer sucks. Totally, completely, absolutely sucks. iPlayer does not allow for the buffering of videos. You must watch them in real-time. If you pause the video, for example, the video doesn't keep loading in the background. This means that, unless you have a very fast network connection, you'll get two seconds of video, a 2 to 10 second pause, two more seconds of video, another 2 to 10 second pause, etc. I've googled the issue and there doesn't seem to be a workaround. The official reason that iPlayer doesn't buffer is to prevent people from being able to copy the copyrighted material.

iPlayer may work fine at my house in Texas, but from my hotel in Santiago it sucks.

I'm downloading the BBC iPlayer desktop version now to see if it works better. It claims that it will allow me to watch the content without being connected to the internet. I'll post my experiences with it later this evening.

 

You will be able to keep a downloaded program on your PC for a limited amount of time I can't remember how long, weeks though, it then self destructs or something I think.

The BBC is trying to protects its copyrights.

Of course there is always work arounds.

 

BBC iPlayer Desktop installed and downloading the Bahrain race. (> 10 hours remaining! This hotel network is really slow.)

 

I probably had to jump through extra hoops because I paid with PayPal, put Texas as my home address, but connected from an IP address in Chile. My account probably had "potential scam" written all over it.

Thanks for the Nottingham recommendation. After the current video finishes downloading I'll change it. (I can't remember which city I picked.)

 

It's now only 7days according to the site.

 

Ok cheers Speedy, I did download something once, but never got to watch it, it just disappeared.

I am a want to watch something, I wanna watch it now type.

 

Thanks. 7 days is plenty for me. I also have my DVR set up record the F1 practice and qualifying sessions as well as the races, but I would rather watch them on my PC from the BBC (rather than the US Speed Channel's airing). I have a PC hooked up to the projector in my media room at home, but I'll have to see what the quality is like using iPlayer.

 

Never!! You really think that Legard is better?