Tour de France Torrents?

[air king]

Does any one here have plans, or know of someone who is planning, to post the day's coverage of the TDF on the internet to download bia BitTorent or similar format?

I've been searching the 'net and haven't had much luck. I had to get rid of OLN (digital cable vs. tuition) so after finally being able to watch live coverage last year, I know I'll be suffering from withdrawl this year.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[baxtefer]

I remember seeing torrents last year on suprnova.org.
But they don't exist anymore.

I'd think http://www.torrentspy.com/ would have them.
I would have pointed you towards btefnet.net, but they seem to have disappeared too. Stupid MPAA.

[air king]

Baxtefer,

Thanks for the heads up. I've been using TorrentSpy for most of my downloads, so hopefully they'll be there come July.

[aadhils]

You could also try www.isohunt.com

[Guest]

I'm so new at this... but my friend in Sweden sent me a link and I got my program up and running just in time to watch the Tour de Suisse. Now all I have to do is find a place to watch it and I'm gold!

Koffee

[ZappCatt]

So are you going to post the link?

[brianallan]

OLN should offer streaming tour coverage for a fee. I'd rather spend $20 on that, than a months worth of cable for $40/50

[giantcfr1]

I watched the 2005 Giro live here:
http://www.gazzetta.it/
The actual page was this: (Sorry, not that it will help now)
http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2005/diretta/wmDSL.shtml
I'm hoping they will also broadcast the Tour live.
Steve.

[LordOpie]

subscribing to thread :)

[recursive]

Maybe everyone already knows this, but http://cycling.tv/ provides video coverage of cycling events too.

[krazyderek]

Maybe everyone already knows this, but http://cycling.tv/ provides video coverage of cycling events too.

OOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

although you have to use IE... it's pretty awsome!!!

[recursive]

OOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

although you have to use IE... it's pretty awsome!!!

I got it to work in FF.

[krazyderek]

well it works, but i had trouble with the full screen thing, and browsing the schedual without the video disapearing

[air king]

The only problem I've had with cycling.tv is that they don't have much new content. I've been watching 2 or 3 months and have seen KBK and Cyclocross World Cup or whatever a million times. Every now and then I'll catch something new, but otherwise it is always the same. Hopefully as the Tour approaches, things will improve.

[recursive]

Yeah, that's true. You can easily watch their whole free catalog. I check back every couple of weeks or so and usually find something new though.

[operator]

http://www.bytenova.org/

When it starts, you'll get torrents there. Last year some guy was ripping it from OLN and posting 700mb divx's of each stage. Granted the quality was piss poor (people need to learn how to properly do it) but at least I got to see it.

[krazyderek]

futureshop has the pvr-150 on sale... i got one for my girlfriends computer looks pretty good and has recording schedualing, i suppose i could set it up to record 300-400mb per day and setup and ftp?? although a torrent would allow better leaching for all as i only have so much upload bandwith.... hmmm... sale ends tomorow..

[F1_Fan]

futureshop has the pvr-150 on sale... i got one for my girlfriends computer looks pretty good and has recording schedualing, i suppose i could set it up to record 300-400mb per day and setup and ftp?? although a torrent would allow better leaching for all as i only have so much upload bandwith.... hmmm... sale ends tomorow..

Be aware that although you'd gain the love of the users here you're in for a lot of work. Even then the torrent doesn't really get rocking until you've "uploaded" the entire file to several users. Uploading a few 100 MB on a residential broadband connection takes a while (upload bandwidth is usually severely restricted... me: 5Mbps down, 0.5 Mbps up)

What really kills you is the time to edit commercials and compress... I'm capturing (BeyondTV, PVR-250), auto-editing commercials (VideoRedo, using BeyondTV's commercial detection) and burning MPEG-2 (1GB/hour) to DVD+RW for people here at work. Just that's a pain but it's managable.

I can't see then further tying up my PC every night fro 3 weeks for the encoding to DivX.

[krazyderek]

i'd just settle for hardware recording "low quality" mpeg 2, with auto commercial skipping, saves time, space, and gets the idea across, if people really want a perfect picture then pay for cable :P, otherwise there would be a day or two delay between recording and uploading the recorded stage.

[robintosh]

I'm looking for a NTSC to DV converter.

I receive the french TV5 channel. they broadcast around 3-4 hours live non stop with no commercials. It really sucks when they come back from commercials and "there was just a crash and there's a break in the peloton".

My idea is to record the video from the french channel, and the audio from phil and paul as an extra audio track.

If I can get the converter I'll be posting torrents daily

[krazyderek]

I'm looking for a NTSC to DV converter.

I receive the french TV5 channel. they broadcast around 3-4 hours live non stop with no commercials. It really sucks when they come back from commercials and "there was just a crash and there's a break in the peloton".

My idea is to record the video from the french channel, and the audio from phil and paul as an extra audio track.

If I can get the converter I'll be posting torrents daily

get one of the haugpauge pvr cards for your pc, it has a tv tuner built into it and has a couple of recording options.

[baxtefer]

I'm looking for a NTSC to DV converter.

I receive the french TV5 channel. they broadcast around 3-4 hours live non stop with no commercials. It really sucks when they come back from commercials and "there was just a crash and there's a break in the peloton".

My idea is to record the video from the french channel, and the audio from phil and paul as an extra audio track.

If I can get the converter I'll be posting torrents daily

TV5 plays the tour? in Canada? sweet. I don't get OLN, I understand Francais, and I just got a PVR-150.
w00t!

crap. canadian TV5 doesn't seem to be playing it. boooooooooo!

[robintosh]

a week before the tour they announce schedules

[Guest]

I'm looking for a NTSC to DV converter.

I receive the french TV5 channel. they broadcast around 3-4 hours live non stop with no commercials. It really sucks when they come back from commercials and "there was just a crash and there's a break in the peloton".

My idea is to record the video from the french channel, and the audio from phil and paul as an extra audio track.

If I can get the converter I'll be posting torrents daily

Cool. Please let us know if you do!

Koffee

[operator]

Divx is for noobs. If you're going to release anything, xvid please.

[krazyderek]

well i was to hesitant on getting a pvr-150, now their gone and the sale is over :( but i think i'm about to get fired so it was probably for the best, i have another job lined up with a tv at my fingertips so i won't miss a minute of the action now :D

[loterij]

anyone have "the science of lance armstrong" that was showed on discovery channel ?

[NZLcyclist]

Derek, you still interested in the private DC hub?

Also you others, interested in a private Direct connect hub amongst BFers? so that we can share JUST cycling clips amongst ourselves :p

Brendon

[cryogenic]

how about waste instead of DC?

http://waste.sourceforge.net/

[citizen560]

Chalk me up as another VERY interested party. I download a lot of TV torrents, so I'll keep an eye out for it and post it here if I see anything.

[krazyderek]

Derek, you still interested in the private DC hub?

Also you others, interested in a private Direct connect hub amongst BFers? so that we can share JUST cycling clips amongst ourselves :p

Brendon

Yup, we really need a central place to download stuff that we just can't always watch when it's on, like the mechanics of LA thing, anyone record that ?

[recursive]

I'm very interested too.

[neutrino]

Yes, I totally agree. OLN has totally screwed up cycling coverage this year. I don't care what has to be done so long as I get to see every stage.

[operator]

Derek, you still interested in the private DC hub?

Also you others, interested in a private Direct connect hub amongst BFers? so that we can share JUST cycling clips amongst ourselves :p

Brendon

Well start one and let's see the interest. I don't think it would be that high.

[eknuth]

I'd definitely be interested. Let's keep this thread active.

[citizen560]

Indeed. I'll do what I can to share the files if someone can rip/encode them.

[krazyderek]

holly crap i didn't realize it started tomorow WHOA! hmm when to watch, 12:30 or 9 pm...

[NZLcyclist]

hmmm the only person that could of hosted the hub has gone away for like 9 days (my brother) dammit...... oh well I can fiddle around with the hub later when he gets back. I intend to be able to share/d-l previous tours as well if I can.

Brendon

[Lividkoi]

Im down. Would love to pick up some coverage that i cant get from my box

[NZLcyclist]

just trying to set up waste at the moment

[pedex]

just trying to set up waste at the moment

it would be better if you used bittorrent and uploaded it to a dump site like mininova.org

[taikmata]

anyone any luck with tdf torrents?

been searching high and low for it.. thank you.

[magic1]

torrentspy.com has a few stages from last year. I haven't seen any 2005 yet b ut would love to!!!

[eviltangerine]

bump to keep this alive, I want some stages!!!

[thewalrus]

Here are torrents for OLN coverage of stages 11, 14 and 15 from 2004:

http://www.torrentspy.com/search.asp?mode=torrentdetails&id=45053&query=france

http://www.torrentspy.com/search.asp?mode=torrentdetails&id=35708&query=france

http://www.torrentspy.com/search.asp?mode=torrentdetails&id=35709&query=france

[operator]

Surprised this thread hasn't been owned by mods yet.

[thewalrus]

Surprised this thread hasn't been owned by mods yet.

technically, there's nothing illegal about a .torrent file itself, as it contains no copyrighted data.

although that might have been changed by the recent grokster supreme court decision last week.

in any case, i think the US government might have some difficulty in shutting down trackers such as thepiratebay which are colocated in sweden.

[Bikeophile]

i have taped stages 1 and 2 (MPEG) with my tuner card on my pc...i have never UPLOADED a Torrent (downloaded plenty)...so if anyone can give me a quick lesson on uploading a torrent I will get them up asap

[thewalrus]

i have taped stages 1 and 2 (MPEG) with my tuner card on my pc...i have never UPLOADED a Torrent (downloaded plenty)...so if anyone can give me a quick lesson on uploading a torrent I will get them up asap

try this - http://www.mininova.org/upload/

you'll be the first "Seeder" for the torrent. the 'maketorrent' program creates your original .torrent file, which you then upload to mininova, or another tracker of your choice (thepiratebay is also popular, and used by a LOT of europeans.)

also, try to put as many searchable keywords in the torrent name as possible, such as:

"Tour de France 2005 Stage 01 English OLN MPEG2 TVRip"

http://krypt.dyndns.org:81/torrent/maketorrent/index.phtml

[F1_Fan]

i have taped stages 1 and 2 (MPEG) with my tuner card on my pc...i have never UPLOADED a Torrent (downloaded plenty)...so if anyone can give me a quick lesson on uploading a torrent I will get them up asap

It would probably be helpful to encode those files as Xvid. MPEG is huge unless you captured at a low bitrate/resolution. Rule of thumb based on other torrent distributed files I've downloaded.... your files should be around 450-600MB per hour.