7 replies to this topic

[ridgeau]

Hi All.
I have a question in regards to streaming the Olympic games.
After trying to watch the coverage on channel 9, and painfully putting up with the large amount of commercials,(Namely during the womens Basketball against GB).
I tried to watch the game on the BBC website, unfortunatley it tells me not in my region, Would there be a easy way around this.
I could record it and fast foward, But the problem is the game keeps running during commercial breaks so missing much of the action.

Thanks Everyone.
Ridgeau

!COME ON CH 9 MORE SPORT LESS COMMERCIALS!

[logifuse]

It's geoblocked everywhere. You could try a UK VPN/DNS service.

If you're not after live coverage, there are plenty of alternatives.

Justin

[joecrow]

I can get the BBC via the VPN Expat Sheild which is free. Normally works absolutely OK, however as of yesterday I was not able to get a connection to it (404)so I guess it had crashed or was totally overworked for the Olympics. Anyone else having problems with the BBC via VPN at the moment?

Edited by joecrow, 29 July 2012 - 02:01 AM.

[logifuse]

FWIW I loved the Foxtel coverage last night. I mainly watched the men's cycling road race, but flicked around. If there was a swimming heat I wanted to really watch, I went with Gem & Rabs' (Ray Warren's) call over Foxtel with Bolts (Ray Hadley). Bolts is a boorish pain in the ar5e.

Justin

[curtindean]

I'm looking at doing the same but was wondering if there is a way to connect the VPN via the Media Center Console?

thanks

[joecrow]

I'm looking at doing the same but was wondering if there is a way to connect the VPN via the Media Center Console?

thanks

Try Tunerfree MCE http://www.milliesoft.co.uk which is a Media Center app. that interfaces to the BBC Live/Iplayer and other channels in the UK and US Hula etc. You will still need a VPN when you are outside the UK/US but it has an option to connect you via your specified VPN and disconnect it when you exit the app.

P.S. I solved my problem with the connection to Expat Sheild, seems it was not a load issue, just stopped working for some reason, de-installed/re-installed all OK. Up an running with advert free Olympics again.

Edited by joecrow, 31 July 2012 - 01:36 AM.

[ridgeau]

Hi.
Currently using Expat shield, Works fantastic able to watch a couple of live events at once on the big screen.
I am going to install Tuner free tonight and see how it goes.

Thanks All

[joecrow]

Hi.
Currently using Expat shield, Works fantastic able to watch a couple of live events at once on the big screen.
I am going to install Tuner free tonight and see how it goes.

Thanks All

Hi ridgeau
This may help, the following code works for me to open and close Expat Sheild from within TunerfreeMCE!

To open the VPN copy the following into Notepad and save as e.g. openukvpn.bat somewhere on disc C:

Echo off
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Expat Shield\bin\openvpntray.exe"
ping 123.45.67.89 -n 1 -w 20000 > nul
taskkill /f /im iexplore.exe
Exit


Type a link to this in Tunerfree MCE Settings/Preferencies/UK VPN Command (e.g. C:\VPNstuff\openukvpn.bat) be sure to use "\"
Then in Tunerfree MCE (TFMCE) click on a UK channel eg BBC it should automatically briefly open a browser window to make the connection to the VPN then close and return back to TFMCE, click again to watch the channel!
The ping command is a delay to allow the connection to the VPN to complete before closing the browser (IE9 in my case, I have not tried Firefox etc. but should also work), the 2000 param. is about 10sec. you should increase (3000 is abot 15sec.) this to suit, i.e. the word Connected in green appears.
Do the same for the following code to close the VPN

taskkill /f /im openvpnas.exe

Type a link to this in the Tunerfree MCE Settings/Preferencies/Kill VPN Command. TFMCE should automatically close the VPN on exit to Media Center but this seems to rarely if ever work and they recommend manually closing the VPN via the Kill VPN icon at the top of the menu.

Hope this is usefull

Edited by joecrow, 01 August 2012 - 03:05 AM.