Live streaming for Swiss Open

**cheung31** · 03-18-2005, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by Mag

It should be on by now, it's only ten minutes before the matches start.
It looks like there's no more free coverage, after all...

cmon guys just calm down, it;ll be there!! ... i hope

***Mag*** · 03-18-2005, 09:02 AM

Nope. Matches have started. No free live feed.

**Big Slick** · 03-18-2005, 09:14 AM

I paid five euro to see if it works. I login, then it says:

Open the stream...

and gives me a box, what the heck do I type in there

?

**demolidor** · 03-18-2005, 09:18 AM

Jeezzz, if they had made that a little more clear I would've bought the 2 hour Grossbild ticket. I was all ready to record the first men's doubles but now that it has already started I'm not getting that ticket anymore. Hopefully they'll meet Candra n Sigit then I will definitely get one

**m_poppema** · 03-18-2005, 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by Mag

Nope. Matches have started. No free live feed.

After 20 minutes of hoping I think I give up by now

**demolidor** · 03-18-2005, 09:22 AM

Originally Posted by Big Slick

I paid five euro to see if it works. I login, then it says:

Open the stream...

and gives me a box, what the heck do I type in there

?

Maybe the same as when logging on/in. Nothing in your inbox?

**armortec800** · 03-18-2005, 10:21 AM

video is stuttering.. at 512kps broadband speed. 5 euro gone.

**Han** · 03-18-2005, 10:44 AM

Yes, very poor quality, not even close as advertise "TV full frame rate" and the so call commentator, I think Kwun and I can do better than that, there goes my US$52. 2 more days to suffer

**yclin** · 03-18-2005, 10:48 AM

Does it only broadcast the matches played on court No.2 or I can switch to other courts??

**Han** · 03-18-2005, 10:53 AM

The paid version only broadcast 1 court, not switching allow unlike the Free version. I think the paid version is the "clip" like Free version except has score and so call commentator.

**Han** · 03-18-2005, 10:56 AM

I still think it's worth the money just to experience "Live"

**Atlec** · 03-18-2005, 11:46 AM

Does anybody having problem watching court 2 and 3?

**Big Slick** · 03-18-2005, 02:44 PM

Anbody know the email address I should email to moan about the fact that I paid 5 euro and saw no badminton?

**cooler** · 03-18-2005, 02:50 PM

they should have work the bugs out first before charging people real money

**event** · 03-18-2005, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by cooler

they should have work the bugs out first before charging people real money

That's not all. They should have explained clearly that the paid stream was to the exclusion of the free streaming. They even had the list of upcoming matches for the day listed directly beneath the "Free Streaming" explanation and links. It says only that the free stream would be available "From Tuesday" and says nothing of "until Thursday".

It would be great if it worked. Some of us need this kind of thing. Am I the only person living in a country with no All England broadcast? I can't imagine you get that kind of thing in Canada or the U.S. Canada didn't even broadcast Olympic badminton.

You're right about the real money. Imagine dropping that much cash on a stuttery video feed!

**event** · 03-18-2005, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by Big Slick

If anybody is having trouble viewing the live streaming like I was, try using RealPlayer and copy and pasting the live streaming address into the real player address bar. Man I love it when I find solutions to problems

. Pity I didn't do it sooner, I missed todays games

IF you look at this page, (which, by the way, seems to be the only way to get to the updated draws),

http://www.swissopen.com/english/akt...howpublic=true

It says "live video" and then has this link:

http://213.189.142.100:8081/ramgen/encoder/stream.rm

I didn't try it when the matches were still on and now Real Player gives an error. Did anyone else try this link? ie Big Slick? Is this what you tried?

When the matches were actually on, I was only trying the links like

http://wms1.eurotip.tv/ch2
http://wms1.eurotip.tv/ch3

from the "Live Streaming" page.

By the way, the email address for the webmaster is info@swissopen.com