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Watch the World Cup Stream on a Mac

As a sports enthusiast with no cable, it’s been a joy and frustration to experiment with the various live streaming sports coverage options that began popping up in the last year. My joy has been moderated, of course, by the heavy use of Windows Media for the streams in question. One such case has been […]

As a sports enthusiast with no cable, it's been a joy and frustration to experiment with the various live streaming sports coverage options that began popping up in the last year.

My joy has been moderated, of course, by the heavy use of Windows Media for the streams in question. One such case has been the World Cup on ESPN360, which had been driving me even crazier than the NCAA Tournament did this spring. But there is an answer.

Blogger Woo has full instructions. For veterans of Flip4Mac, it should mostly be straightforward. The meat is in the addresses provided:

Now, open quicktime, go to file->open url, and paste either
mms://live.espnevent.espn.com.edgestreams.net/reflector:50616

or
mms://live.espnevent.espn.com.edgestreams.net/reflector:51921

And you can even watch in full-screen mode this way. It's like you're actually there, only you won't get punched in the back of the head!

(Via digg.)