Posted on 03/21/2003 3:26:45 PM PST by SlickWillard
If anyone knows of a live feed for CNN, or Britain's Sky News, please tell me, and I'll add the code. There are some more links on this thread, but few of them work, and those that do tend to link to local stations. I'd also like to get a link to Al-Jazeera [spelling?] if they've got a streaming feed somewhere.
This is the general formula for the MSNBC live feeds [requires Windows Media Player]:
mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbcX
There are at least 11 of them; #1, #2, #3, and #6 are the interesting ones:
MSNBC Main FeedThis is the general formula for the BBC live feeds [requires Real Player]:
mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc1Downtown Baghdad
mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc2Whitehouse Briefing Room [currently on hold, but goes live when Ari Fleischer appears]
mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc3Seattle [currently on hold]
mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc4Seattle [currently on hold]
mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc5David Bloom from Iraq
mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc6? [currently on hold]
mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc7Seattle [currently on hold]
mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc8New Jersey [currently on hold]
mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc9? [currently on hold]
mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc10? [currently overloaded]
mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc11
rtsp://rmlivev8e.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/news/nowX.rmEarlier today, "now1.rm" was giving the Whitehouse Briefing Room, but it's down now. The others come and go as well, but "now5.rm" seems to be a constant feed of BBC news:
BBC News Main FeedHere is some code that embeds six of the MSNBC feeds in a single page; if you save the code to a file that ends in ".htm" [say, "msnbc.htm"], you can launch it and watch all six feeds at once. I've autostarted feeds 1, 4, and 6 [<param name="autostart" value="true">]; feeds 3, 4, and 5 must be started manually [<param name="autostart" value="false">].
rtsp://rmlivev8e.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/news/now5.rm
<html><title>MSNBC Live Feeds</title>
<table border="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="bottom">
<object id="MSNBC_Feed_1" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
<param name="URL" value="mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc1">
<param name="autostart" value="true">
</object><br>
<font style="font-size:12;font-family:Verdana">MSNBC Feed 1<br>[MSNBC Main Feed]</font>
</td>
<td align="center" valign="bottom"> </td>
<td align="center" valign="bottom">
<object id="MSNBC_Feed_2" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
<param name="URL" value="mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc2">
<param name="autostart" value="true">
</object><br>
<font style="font-size:12;font-family:Verdana">MSNBC Feed 2<br>[downtown Baghdad]</font>
</td>
<td align="center" valign="bottom"> </td>
<td align="center" valign="bottom">
<object id="MSNBC_Feed_6" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
<param name="URL" value="mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc6">
<param name="autostart" value="true">
</object><br>
<font style="font-size:12;font-family:Verdana">MSNBC Feed 6<br>[David Bloom from Iraq]</font>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="bottom"> </td>
<td align="center" valign="bottom"> </td>
<td align="center" valign="bottom"> </td>
</tr><tr>
<td align="center" valign="bottom">
<object id="MSNBC_Feed_3" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
<param name="URL" value="mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc3">
<param name="autostart" value="false">
</object><br>
<font style="font-size:12;font-family:Verdana">MSNBC Feed 3<br>[Whitehouse Briefing Room]</font>
</td>
<td align="center" valign="bottom"> </td>
<td align="center" valign="bottom">
<object id="MSNBC_Feed_4" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
<param name="URL" value="mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc4">
<param name="autostart" value="false">
</object><br>
<font style="font-size:12;font-family:Verdana">MSNBC Feed 4<br>[Seattle]</font>
</td>
<td align="center" valign="bottom"> </td>
<td align="center" valign="bottom">
<object id="MSNBC_Feed_5" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
<param name="URL" value="mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc5">
<param name="autostart" value="false">
</object><br>
<font style="font-size:12;font-family:Verdana">MSNBC Feed 5<br>[Seattle]</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table></html>
The Real software is VERY POORLY WRITTEN [and barely coexists with other players], but if you want to put the BBC live feed in a web page, here is some code that will do the trick:
<html><title>BBC Live Feed</title>
<br>
<center>
<embed SRC="rtsp://rmlivev8e.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/news/now5.rm" WIDTH="225" HEIGHT="140" CONTROLS="ImageWindow" CONSOLE="one" MAINTAINASPECT="true"><br>
<embed SRC="rtsp://rmlivev8e.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/news/now5.rm" WIDTH="225" HEIGHT="30" CONTROLS="ControlPanel" CONSOLE="one" AUTOSTART="true">
</center></html>
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