Sopcast for OSX

As far as I know, and I've done a lot of searching, there's nothing comparable to Sopcast for Mac. But there is a solution...

I'm in France for a year and want to watch NFL football. I searched desperately for a solution for the Mac because there are sites that stream games through Sopcast. Short of bootcamp and that whole mess, there's not much esle to do. Except Crossover!

This application is only in beta phase, and not many applications are supported, *but with Crossover you can run Windows applications on your Mac* without buying Windows. And you can run Sopcast on it. *In order for it to work though, you have to install it in a Win98 bottle with Windows Media Player 9 in the same bottle.* You can also use VLC for mac to stream from Sopcast (you have to have both running) and there are plenty of tutorials on how to do this. Just make sure you put the stream on a loop while using VLC or it will keep stopping after a few seconds.

I hope this gets out there. *Post freely on other forums as there is not much info. on this subject.*

I am very interested to learn more about running sopcast through VLC. I would love to see some college football. Where might I find the tutorials you refer to? Would they explain putting 'the stream on a loop'? Thanks for any help you can give.

I tried the method Scott suggested and it works. I installed Internet Explorer 6, Media Player 7, then 9, then Sopcast. Runs exactly like it does on the PC.

hey! i am trying to do the same thing but am having problems! Could you explain the way you downloaded everything? I downloaded Crossover, now what? I'm not understanding the "Internet Explorer 6, Media Player 7, then 9, then Sopcast" part. Please help!

THANKS A LOT!!

Har'el

just to mention that there are other windows media player plugins that are widely used ....... Sopcast, TVants, TVU PPMate and UUSee are all video softwares that are used for web broadcasting of games.

hope at least one could be made to work on a mac soon - I'm missing lots of football here !

What type of bottle did you use? Win98 like suggested or did you use something different?

where can i get this crossover? i mean not the demo version. i need full one thanks

for free of course 🙂

Really fantastic, works a dream after hours of searching.

And why don't the people demanding instructions just do what the man says??

Hi,

Maybe I am really stupid but what is a bottle? Can someone please explain that and explain in steps how you make this work on your mac?

Thanks a million times!

Greetings from Amsterdam,

Jantie

Hi Jantie, the following article described the Windows environment created with bottles on a Mac. It is not all that thorough, yet I could not find much on it and I don't use Windows. Ray

<http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/bottles/>

Works a treat although stability can be a bit of an issue. Thanks a lot!

Interesting, thanx!

Have been looking for something like tis, as bootcamp and Parallels is a little too much of the real thing.. and I only need win for streamed football and my Boating GPS software...
meaning I really don't want to keep and support a wind partition as it takes time and is a hassle.

My question though:
How secure is it to run something like this in th emiddle of your OSX drive?
Feels a little uncomfortable seeing the win files in /applicationsupport/ etc....

How safe is a crossover bottle?

TIA and regards
jtm

ive just switched to mac & i am missing livefooty ( sopcast), i have absolutely no idea what cross over or bottles are, any chance of putting it in laymans terms for a dunce like me
please

I got it to work - I have all the files ( zipped ) needed - if anyone has a server to host the files that would be great. let me know. 1 download instead of 4

here are directions I copied and edited from a message board.

You need a few different bits of software but I now have sopcast working perfectly/

1/You will first need to download "Crossover"

2/Once installed, open the program, select a win98 bottle. then install internet explorer 6 (the programme automates this process for you) IE6 is in the supported packages list in crossover

3/Then go to the Microsoft website and download the .exe file for Media player 7. I DID THIS FOR YOU USE mp71.exe

4/Open crossover again and select "install unsupported application" - browser to the media player 7 .exe and install

5/Return to microsoft and download media player 9 and repeat the steps above. USE MPSetup.exe

6/Finally download sopcast .exe file from the sopcast site and install as above. USE Setup-SopCast-2.0.4-2007-12-13.exe

7/ the codec - without this you will see black screen in the sop player
I GOT IT..... by pure accident..... it seems you need to download a codec to get it working perfectly.. if you click on the second icon to the left of the play button (while trying to watch a stream on sopcast), it opens windows media player.. the stream tries to play in wm player , but then a message pops up to inform you that a codec needs downloading.. follow the prompts and it directs you to the right page, then, YOU GOT IT.......