Olympic Fencing being shown by Italian TV

[Julie Schofield]

Hi all,

RAI have the following link
www.fastweb.it/streaming/raisport.asx

Last night they showed the women's sabre and men's epee. I believe they
are showing the women's foil today.

Italian commentary but the action speaks for itself.

British Eurosport seems to have given up on fencing altogether and the
BBC has shown about 10 minutes.

Well worth a look. The link is shared with volleyball, judo and
swimming - at the moment 8.39 a.m. British time - it's swimming.

Julie

--
Julie Schofield

[Julie Schofield]

Now showing repeat of men's epee from last night.

In message <zW4ycDDxewIBJAQ5@oaktree.mail.foxtree.co.uk>, Julie
Schofield <julie@foxtree.co.uk> writes
>Hi all,
>
>RAI have the following link
>www.fastweb.it/streaming/raisport.asx
>
>Last night they showed the women's sabre and men's epee. I believe
>they are showing the women's foil today.
>
>Italian commentary but the action speaks for itself.
>
>British Eurosport seems to have given up on fencing altogether and the
>BBC has shown about 10 minutes.
>
>Well worth a look. The link is shared with volleyball, judo and
>swimming - at the moment 8.39 a.m. British time - it's swimming.
>
>Julie
>

--
Julie Schofield

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Geez! Just as I am about to fly off to nowhere, I find this! Trillini just won
her semi-final bout, and I have to fly.

Unfair!

B.C. Milligan

[Bill Davidson]

The problem with this site is that too many people are apparently
trying to watch it. The picture freezes all the time. It's very
hard to watch a sport like that. The audio usually comes through
clearly but since I don't speak Italian, that doesn't really help.

I have a high speed connection (4Mb/s) but perhaps there's a delay
on the way across the pond? Sometimes I get full motion for a little
while but of course, never during fencing .

[William Marshal]

Bill Davidson <billdav@cox.nospam.net> wrote

> The problem with this site is that too many people are apparently
> trying to watch it. The picture freezes all the time. It's very
> hard to watch a sport like that. The audio usually comes through
> clearly but since I don't speak Italian, that doesn't really help.


I have the opposite problem: the video is quite clean, but I cannot
get it to yield the audio for love or money...

[Spiggy Topes]

On 20 Aug 2004 22:43:31 -0700, trebuchet30303@yahoo.com (William
Marshal) wrote:

>Bill Davidson <billdav@cox.nospam.net> wrote
>
>> The problem with this site is that too many people are apparently
>> trying to watch it. The picture freezes all the time. It's very
>> hard to watch a sport like that. The audio usually comes through
>> clearly but since I don't speak Italian, that doesn't really help.
>
>
>I have the opposite problem: the video is quite clean, but I cannot
>get it to yield the audio for love or money...

Found a good way to handle the problems with poor connections. Going
direct to the link with Windoze Media Player was useless, so I picked
up a demo version utility from TUCOWS called "CoCSoft Stream Down"
that will capture streaming video and store it locally. There's other
utilities that will do the same, this was just the first I found that
didn't limit capture to something useless like two minutes. Left it
running last night, finished up with a gigabyte .asf file this
morning. Now all I need to do is search it and edit it for fencing
content...

[Francesco Moretto]

> Hi all,
>
> RAI have the following link
> www.fastweb.it/streaming/raisport.asx

You can get here http://www2.raisport.rai.it/news/tv.htm
the broadcasting schedule. The time is, obviously, CET.

Bye, Francesco

[Francesco Moretto]

> > Hi all,
> >
> > RAI have the following link
> > www.fastweb.it/streaming/raisport.asx
>
> You can get here http://www2.raisport.rai.it/news/tv.htm
> the broadcasting schedule. The time is, obviously, CET.
>
> Bye, Francesco

I just forgot...

Scherma = Fencing
Fioretto = Foil
Spada = Epee
Sciabola = Sabre

Francesco