Tour de France on the internet?

Originally Posted by canuckbob123

olntv.com has all the stages on their website in HQ video, just find the name of the file under daily videos

Originally Posted by strummer_fan

There is daily live audio coverage in English on EuroSport.

Originally Posted by wilmar13

Ah yes listening to a bike race... that ranks right up there with watching golf ...

With all the posts about this I am really surprised there is no good site to go to to get streaming video... OLN only has short little snippets. I wish there was a pay site to watch Tour de France coverage especially with archives... I would pay like 40 bucks a month for it (cheaper than cable anyway).

Yeah there is cycling.tv, but you can only watch that dweebs training diary and the tour of africa/cyclocross championships so many times before you would rather watch talk shows...

Originally Posted by canuckbob123

if you look at the snipets video file address and you cut off whatever is after the _ you have a 3 hour video of the whole broadcast. for example stage 7 snippet is mms://dayport.wmod.llnwd.net/fc/a258/e1/v1/0040/08300020050708_024923p5024949p0.wmv

mms://dayport.wmod.llnwd.net/fc/a258/e1/v1/0040/08300020050708.wmv <this one is the whole stage>

better than audio even though it's not live

Originally Posted by Kageko

I'm desparate to find a website that has some live coverage of Tour de France, even if it's low-quality. I don't have a TV (only a computer), so I can't get the outdoor channel. Does anyone know of any such website?

Originally Posted by JensCph

The Tour de France organizers have disallowed free live streaming of the tour, so you will only find pay sites.


The streaming from Danish TV2 is great. They are at the very front of the tech edge at the moment, streaming news, movies and special events like the Tour de France. And the quality at 2Mbit (their max rate) is TV quality (At the moment they are showing 'Pulp Fiction' for free). They have been streaming the Tour de France for at least 5 years now (low quality and free in the begining). The available qualities of the Tour de France is 300 Kb to 2 Mbit. It will adjust itself accordingly. If your connection is less than than 512Kbit, I would not recommend trying to stream it.

Of course, you've got danish audio so that might be a major turnoff.. And it costs 159 DKR (about $22) for the Tour de France. I dont know if they accept non-Danish subscriptions but I dont see any reason why not. If you want to test the service go to :
http://tour.tv2.dk/article.php/2556360.html
and click "Tour de France trailer". You probably need to create a login (free) though. Or ask them at support@sputnik.dk

Originally Posted by Trajectum

Been reading up on your forums for quite some time but just decided to get an account now. Mainly to give u the link to:

http://www.nos.nl/nosstudiosport/wie...our/2007/live/

NOS is responsible for the dutch coverage of the tour and they also offer it online (for those who plug in their headphones n watch/listen at work like me). No charge, live streaming and you can even watch fullscreen. Should help you guys out.

Downside (for you guys in any case) is that the (all be it enthousiastic) audiocoverage is in dutch. But in any case you have the video coverage, maybe combine it with the audio from the american website or something.

cheers,

Simon the ultimate rabo fan