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Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the play-the-drinking-game dept.

farkinga writes "For those of us that no longer have a television, live TV events can be a challenge to watch. Fortunately, tonight's Presidential Debate has attracted the attention of most US broadcasters, many of whom will provide online viewing options. Leading the way is Hulu, a joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp, who will stream the Fox-branded feed tonight — assuming they worked out the bandwidth issues that came up during the second debate!"

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  1. Live? by clone53421 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm more interested in a recorded version, since I'll be busy during the actual debate... :/

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    1. Re:Live? by Laebshade · · Score: 5, Informative

      Take a look at eztv.it: http://eztv.it/index.php?main=search - you can usually find debates available for download after the fact; either same day or at the most, the next day.

    2. Re:Live? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Informative

      C-SPAN posts the complete debate videos on their YouTube account. If you ever miss a debate, check there first.

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  2. Linux? No CNN. by arhhook · · Score: 5, Informative

    I tried during the last debate to watch it on CNN.com/live but it appeared their video player didn't allow Ubuntu/Firefox to connect. After further research, they use some vbscript in their code. I'll definitely watch it, just not with CNN.

  3. how to get CNN live on linux by wwwrench · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can get it to work: just use VLC media player
    http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
    and open the video stream:
    File->Open Network Stream
    check HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MSS and put in the url http://www.cnn.com/video/live/cnnlive_1.asx

    then watch and try not to vomit!

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