Sopcast for OSX

Hi everyone,

I got this working through a mixture of reading the posts here and have a play around.

I can only get this working with Crossover ver 2.0.4 as frozen in time suggested, the sopcast app just hangs in ver 7 of the program. However, I did not need to reinstall all the updates again, I just download 2.04 and replaced it with ver6 and sopcast ver 3.03 doesn't hang anymore....

As for the codecs, I followed the link via media player and installed both 6.4 and 7 media player codecs and it worked fine, though I refreshed the program list from the menu in crossover couple of times. The streams worked fine in Media Player but VLC is probabl the best way of viewing the streams once you get this setup....

Cheers, hope this is of help to someone.. I still couldn't find a better workaround even though the last post was six months ago !

Steve

Sorry... so we are clear. I meant to say the version of Crossover should be version 6 not 7. Version 6 works ver 7 just hangs for me.. apologies.. with ver 6 of crossover I can use sopcast 3.03 - the latest version as it stands..

Hi there

I am new to this forum and have been searching for a way yo stream sport via Sopcast for quite a while now.

I have tried the various options detailed in this forum. I think they are failing because my Mac has a Power PC prcessor. Is there any way to download Sopcast with my computer spec?

Thanks anyone!!

OK I finally got it to work on my mac book pro.

I got rid of Crossover version 7 and installed version 6

I then installed Internet explorer 6 using the automatic installer in crossover and also when prompted installed DCOM98 and Windows OLE Components. This created a WIN98 bottle automatically.

After the install and after every install after this i always ensured that crossover carried out a Simulated System Reboot, if it doesn't make sure you do one. Also open the application IE and download the next files from there.

Then in the same bottle i installed version 7 of Windows Media Player,
When installing I made sure IE was closed as were any other apps in crossover.
Simulated reboot again then opened up Win media player and went through the set up checking pretty much every file type. (just to be sure)

Then i installed version 9 of Windows media player. Rebooted, launched same as above.

Then I installed sopcast v.3 didn't unchecked the box to launch after install. Reboot crossover bottle again.

Then I downloaded on ie 2 codecs

6.4 Media Player Codec - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9BE479F8-3B3F-491D-9284 -2E1A8FAE4584&displaylang=en

7 Media Player Codec - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=06fcaab7-dcc9-466b-b0c4 -04db144bb601

Installed both codecs, rebooted the bottle one last time.
Refreshed the programs menu.

All of the above I found in this thread and other bits from other threads, well it worked for me so I hope it works for someone else.

I tried doing it using Darwine but to no avail. Crossover does cost money for a license and i've heard people that have tried to do this using the demo have found it not to work but then paid the license and it works fine so don't expect it to work on the demo version.

Good luck!

Can you give me a link for Media Player 7?
Can't find it anywhere..

I have followed your instruction closely and get everything installed. When i open sopcast i can login and than it freezes after 2-3 seconds and i have shut everything down.

where am i going wrong?

please help me out.

As I have a Debian server, I was wondering whether I could use the sp-sc program to create a stream to which VLC is able to connect. And to my surprise, this works great! I can SSH to my server and enter a command like 'sp-sc sop://<server>:<port>/<channel> 9000 9001' and then I can stream from it by connecting to http://<servername>:9001/.

You could also use this Python script: http://code.google.com/p/liquidx/wiki/SopCastWrapper. It might even be a good idea to run this from a linux VM on a mac itself (using VirtualBox, I had a lot of lag when playing sopcasts within the VM on my MB white).

Does anybody have a link to where I can download Crossover v.6? I'm on v.7 and Sopcast just hangs
Thanks