Olympic Games Live UK Only
 

With the Olympic Games officially opening on 08/08/08 I decided to throw together this product which a embedded stream to watch the Olympics live.

The stream is supplied from the BBC website and i've used an iframe to pull it to embed in my forum, see the demo for more informtion. The Official Ceremony is at 1pm GMT 08/08/08.

My intentions of making this for me and my members was for work times and most of my members are from the uk.

Installation is very simple and no template edits are needed unless you want to add a link to your navbar. It automatically adds a link to "quick links" Full instructions are included.

Demo: http://www.whatsyourview.net/olympic_games.php

This was thrown together in minutes and is very first product so go easy on me!


If the response for this is good then I will update and expand it with schedules and break the links down into languages etc.


UPDATED:
Embedded the stream so its viewable on your forum as you can see with the demo.

UPDATED 1.2:
embedded the stream from bbc website so commentary is in english and stream is stable.

To upgrade simply overwrite the old files and overwrite the product in admincp, no need to uninstall.

thanks :)

Thanks fella now gonna try it out :)

no problem, don't forget to click install for the updates ;)

Sounds like a great idea
I will be looking into it
thanks FOxy

uninstalled as a few links lead away from my site and not opened in wmp it would be cool if it opened in a player on the page,But for the amount of time it is going to be on i dont know if this would be worth it,
I think with a little more effort put into it there would be a use for it for my members and forums.keep up the good work ill keep watching for any updates you may do:)

perhaps integrate this with radio and tv mod.

Not downloaded, but marginally interested, albeit some dodgy links.

Interested, but as stated above some links re-direct away from my site. Some also request to save. Any way to make this with embedded player with links to play direct on embed player?

cool. installed.

Its as easy to embed the player and stream into the announcement....

like this...
www.tabletennistalk.co.uk

updated the mod to embed the stream and also lists external streams so members have a choice. At the time of posting the stream embedded was showing the opening ceremony, i may need to update this tomorrow with further better streams as it starts showing live events so be sure to click install for updates ;)

Absolute Awesomness!

Could you please make this mod so it will fit on a dark background.

Thanks.

Great. I'm gonna try it. Thanks for such speedy work!

great timing. watching the opening ceremonies now

agreed

This is pretty cool!

Thanks

haven't much time at the minute mate but ive just changed the font so its dark and it will look a lot better on your site. Just overwrite with this one for a black font

Is it possible to make the English stream the default one?

not at the minute as its not a WMP stream, i will be updating it over the weekend with an english stream once the events start.

Sweet :)

I will look forward to that then :)

Thankyou very much. :)

feed just went dead :(

Hi F0xy,

an Off Topic to this mod, where have you found the live stream address? In which website? I just want to watch the games. :D

The ARD Sending is different from this live stream, but this live stream also has a ARD Logo on it. I'm confused. :confused:

its very late in china right now, no games are on at the moment

yea thats what I figured. just surprised it cut off like that. cant wait to see how this works out when the games are on. cool mod!

stream now pulled from the bbc website so its in english and its stable. check out the demo for more info.

On your sit it looks like where the player is supposed to be is just a picture of the olympics website or something?

this stream is just for uk members

oh...so even when I go to your site it won't work because I'm over seas?

yes thats right, if you know how to change to a uk proxy ip you may be able to view it

if your aware of any usa sites that are streaming it live then let me know and i can make addition one to suit

This is streaming it...don't know if you can use it though

http://watch-olympics-online.co.cc/w...channel=mstv_1

thanks!

edit..

Here is a list...

http://cnreviews.com/video/beijing_o..._20080807.html

here you go, just overwrite in admincp

thank you!

Is it possible to modify this hack? I run a website linked to BBC Radio 1 and so I wouldn't mind being able to post the BBC videos into forum threads. For example:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/summer/2...o/video3.shtml

Is that at all possible?

my hack is designed using iframes and css and it wouldn't really work with posting videos in threads

from the source..

"Content from this channel removed at the request of the copyright holder. "

excellent idea dude ^^
I willl mark this thread as installed :cool:



EDIT:

This is just for the Uk =/
I understood that it was in english but...
so bad =(

doesn't the title of the thread give that away? :confused: