media player 9 and live radio

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John A Grandy

wxp pro , windows media player 9 , applied all updates from
windowsupdate.com

severe problems listening to a live radio broadcast of a euro 2004 soccer
game

this was a web-stream of an english radio station's live broadcast. the
stream was provided by the http://www.bbc.com/sports website -- via their
"BBC Sport Player"

starting the "BBC Sport Player" opens a separate window and provides the
option to select "Real Player" or "Windows Media" ... i selected "Windows
Media"

one of the panels in the "BBC Sport Player" window contains the familiar
Windows Media control panel ...

the panel has a link titled "Optimized 9 Series Experience" that opens a
Microsoft website

"Fast Streaming with Windows Media 9 Series" ... so apparently the latest
windows server 2003 technology was being used

for the entire 2 hours of the broadcast , the sound would stop every minute
or so , and then restart ...

whenever the broadcast would stop , the Windows Media panel would say
"bufferring" , but the usual "percentage bufferred" indicator was not
present

i actually found that closing the "BBC Sport Player" window , clearing all
temporary internet files , and then restarting the "BBC Sport Player"
tended to be a faster method to re-attain content delivery
 
What sort of connection do you have? The BBC state it is for over 256k.
BBC have only recently, I believe, started using WMP files, so it may be
better to try the real player ones if you have it.
Also, depending on which match you listened too they may have had far too
many people trying to access it, have a test of a low interest match to see.
Graham
 
Heh heh ... well probably not much more interest than England v. France ...
but shouldn't they have anticipated that ?

The bandwidth I've tried has always been very high... either 11mbps wireless
(at a cafe) or cable modem (at home) or T1 (at work) ...

I hate to put Real Player on my machine ... they try to sneak-in all sorts
of junk ... it always seems to cause problems. I wonder if there is a
"minimalist" version of Real Player ?
 
I guessed it was England, I'd think a mix of not guessing right and watching
it themsleves :) :)

I also hate real player, and wouldn't put it on unless it was absolutely
neccessary, and with much care.
Graham
 
Heh heh ... the good ol' Not For Real Player ...

Any suggestions to improve my listening experience ?

I am listening to Spain Greece right now and it is just as bad as England
France.
 
Hey John, I have the same woes as you. I would like to buy the games
via PPV, but my cable company isn't offering them until semi-finals.
Hopefully, England will still be in the tourney! :( I also don't
like the real player and all of the useless extra stuff it dumps on
(regardless if you uncheck it all during install). I did manage to
find a slightly older version. In fact, this site is devoted to older
versions of software. Highly recommend it.
http://www.oldversion.com/

has older real player. Don't go too far back (like 1.0), cause it
won't generally work for video. should help though.
I am trying to find some way of visually WATCHING the game vs the
Swiss tomorrow. I found out sky sports has live streaming video, but
you have to be UK resident to subscribe... WAH! the hunt for good
sporting events continues. you're not alone in this struggle. good
luck!
 
I did find some website in asia that had video feeds, but the lag on
them was just too much. still looking...
 
what's the url ?

Ben said:
I did find some website in asia that had video feeds, but the lag on
them was just too much. still looking...

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