how to watch on ipad

[AussieGoddess]

Hi everyone

Just wondering if (and how) I can watch the streams on my ipad?

Can anyone give me some tips? (and remember - I am fairly technologically challenged, so small words please )

Cheers

 

[Michele]

I have Puffin on my iphone for watch some streamings and I tried it with a cyclocross event but it failed poorly.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Can't you just go follow the link and watch it? Because I have no problems watching streams on my phone (not an apple), although it swallows huge chunks of my data.

 

[AussieGoddess]

nope - ipad doesnt support/use Flash ... no most links dont work

 

[Anonymous]

Skyfire may or may not work.. its meant to rerender flash streams as html5..

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skyfire-web-browser/id384941497?mt=8

ive tested it with varying success on the ipad emulator I have installed.

review here that also says it has varying success
http://www.macworld.com/appguide/article.html?article=157782

but for $3 its worth a bash

other than that, its find non flash streams which are few and far between. I did spend a few weeks last year trying to work a solution where i re-encoded them as wmv on the fly before restreaming but to be honest, it was more trouble than it was worth.

one of the big downsides of ipads sadly, and why i would never recommend buying one when there are other, better tablets available.

 

[LugHugger]

Skyfire may or may not work.. its meant to rerender flash streams as html5..

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skyfire-web-browser/id384941497?mt=8

ive tested it with varying success on the ipad emulator I have installed.

review here that also says it has varying success
http://www.macworld.com/appguide/article.html?article=157782

but for $3 its worth a bash

other than that, its find non flash streams which are few and far between. I did spend a few weeks last year trying to work a solution where i re-encoded them as wmv on the fly before restreaming but to be honest, it was more trouble than it was worth.

one of the big downsides of ipads sadly, and why i would never recommend buying one when there are other, better tablets available.

Sorry, Dave, surely you meant to qualify your remark by saying 'there are better pads available for watching Flash streams'? I've played with most of the pads on the market and some which are not (Kindle Fire) and none of them are as rounded as the iPad. It may not be as wallet friendly as others (which were more expensive when released but since nobody bought them have been deeply discounted) but its certainly the best out there still.

 

[AussieGoddess]

If I could get Eurosport player I would be sooooo happy.

Damn Geo restrictions!!!

Thanks TSF - will give that a try

 

[DirtyWorks]

Sorry, Dave, surely you meant to qualify your remark by saying 'there are better pads available for watching Flash streams'? I've played with most of the pads on the market and some which are not (Kindle Fire) and none of them are as rounded as the iPad. It may not be as wallet friendly as others (which were more expensive when released but since nobody bought them have been deeply discounted) but its certainly the best out there still.

Unless there's a tablet with an intel x86 chip you are permanently out of luck. There aren't any and won't ever be an x86 tablet or a flash runtime for ARM. Nokia paid for the privilege of a Flash port for their OS years ago, but I have no idea if Nokia has kept that alive.

Flash is actually a generally awful way to stream video, but it works on machines with tons of processing power and memory. HTML5 is supposed to fix all this, but of course, the entertainment conglomerates and tech giants do not any semblance of a patent-free way to stream video.

It will probably be a long wait on both the tablets and a video streaming standard. Too much money and power to make it an easy thing for consumers to use. The battle for text and images is over, but video is left.

 

[Race Radio]

My Xoom runs flash great. Use it to watch most races.

 

[c&cfan]

Skyfire may or may not work.. its meant to rerender flash streams as html5..

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skyfire-web-browser/id384941497?mt=8

ive tested it with varying success on the ipad emulator I have installed.

review here that also says it has varying success
http://www.macworld.com/appguide/article.html?article=157782

but for $3 its worth a bash

other than that, its find non flash streams which are few and far between. I did spend a few weeks last year trying to work a solution where i re-encoded them as wmv on the fly before restreaming but to be honest, it was more trouble than it was worth.

one of the big downsides of ipads sadly, and why i would never recommend buying one when there are other, better tablets available.

ah.. the irrational non sensical hate.. and the other talking about the xoom joke.

 

[DirtyWorks]

My Xoom runs flash great. Use it to watch most races.

I stand corrected! Here's the complete list: http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/certified_devices/tablets.html

 

[Roude Leiw]

Hi

RTL Lux streams a lot of races through their ipad app, comments in luxemburgish. I don't know if geolocalized though. The Giro is streamed on the webside of the Gazetta dello Sport in an ipad friendly way (other races like MSR too I guess).
Eurosport player didn't work last time I tried on the ipad. Mind you I actually subscribe to be able to watch some races which are shown nowhere else directly on the Mac, they run on MS Silverlight which does not work hassle free on the ipad.

Pat

 

[Anonymous]

Flash is actually a generally awful way to stream video, but it works on machines with tons of processing power and memory. HTML5 is supposed to fix all this, but of course, the entertainment conglomerates and tech giants do not any semblance of a patent-free way to stream video. .

it is, but while the big players may move to html5, silverlight etc, for the bulk of the cycling streams that people want to watch they will be flash for a fair few years to come yet.

Eurosport may eventually move to html5, but I cant see Justintv, seeon, etc etc switching any time soon..

 

[Anonymous]

ah.. the irrational non sensical hate.. and the other talking about the xoom joke.

Sorry, Dave, surely you meant to qualify your remark by saying 'there are better pads available for watching Flash streams'? I've played with most of the pads on the market and some which are not (Kindle Fire) and none of them are as rounded as the iPad. It may not be as wallet friendly as others (which were more expensive when released but since nobody bought them have been deeply discounted) but its certainly the best out there still.

just to note, despite my hate, i am the only person on this thread who has actually offered a solution to the problem of the original poster

 

[Bala Verde]

Keep your eyes peeled for updates of http://desktop.onlive.com/

It's a virtual windows desktop for iPad and, in the future hopefully, might include browser capability. I am guessing that would open the door for flash content.

Now it just contains excel, word and pp and 2gb storage (for free, more for a fee)

 

[Bala Verde]

Also check "iswifter". It's apparently made for playing online flash games, but it contains a browser that is said to play streams you could otherwise not access.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iswifter/id388857173?mt=8

I checked a stream and it worked (so so, choppy, blurry; which would defeat the purpose a little since sports streams are always 'in motion'. That's when it has the most trouble delivering the stream/movie), but they do charge you a fee (4,99$ I think)

 

[danjo007]

throw the ipad rubbish away and buy something that works. samsung galaxy is an obvious choice.