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Watch CCTV5 live stream on iPhone/iPod/iPad abroad

August 10th, 2011 by TimeArrow

A link that provides CCTV5 live stream

1) on iDevices, such as iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad,
2) without the copyright limitation when one is out of mainland of China. (For domestic Chinese user, simply navigate to http://ipad.cntv.cn.)
3) directly provided by CCTV (not 3rd-party app), therefore the quality is guaranteed to be relatively high.

Just open the website (a m3u8 streaming file) using mobile safari and we are ready to go.
For record purpose only:

CCTV5
http://big5.cntv.cn/gate/big5/t.live.cntv.cn/m3u8/cctv-5.m3u8

CCTV5+(HD version if available)
http://big5.cntv.cn/gate/big5/t.live.cntv.cn/m3u8/cctv-5plus.m3u8

Note: the addresses may be subject to change without prediction,but are reachable at least through Aug. 10, 2011.

It is extrapolated that, since the stream file for
CCTV1 is
http://t.live.cntv.cn/m3u8/cctv-1.m3u8
& for CCTV2 is
http://t.live.cntv.cn/m3u8/cctv-2.m3u8
……
……
The corresponding one for CCTV5 was
http://t.live.cntv.cn/m3u8/cctv-5.m3u8,
and later changed to the link above for certain reasons.

Theser are snapshot of the streaming on my iPhone 3GS and iPad 2.

iPad CCTV5

iPad CCTV5+

iPhone CCTV5