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[DEAD_MAN_WALKING]

Oops, I forgot I'd posted in here.

Yes, I have the latest version of Sopcast, along with the latest K-Lite codecs pack installed on my computer. I've just tried to uninstall, then reinstall Sopcast, but it's still not working!

Arghhhhh!!

How about if you switch the stream to VLC...?

http://forum.wiziwig.eu/threads/5768-Sopcast-with-VLC

[TheHurtLocker873]

I have a slight problem with my sopcast player.

If I click on a sopcast link on wiziwig page, (or just direct through sopcast icon), for whatever I want to watch, it dosn't go directly to that very link.
Instead, the sopcast home page appears with the last channel I watched on sopcast in the address bar, and I have to manually replace the last name in the address bar before I get to watch.
I think this is due to myself playing around with buttons on the player, and I've no idea what I've done to put it into this mode. Before this happened, I would get the channel representing the link I clicked on.
I've un-installed and re-installed. Still the same. I'm also on the latest 3.4.8 version... (Does this all make sense?)

Basically: I visit wiziwig to find an English sopcast link. The sopcast links have names instead of channel numbers. If I enter the name, YES or M&M1 for example I get a small grey box that says, 'channel is off line'. The player only pops out and starts to load if only I put the channel number in the address bar.

If anyone understands this, and can advise on what I have to do to reverse this problem, it would be appreciated. I know some channel numbers to some names, but others I don't. So without channel numbers, some are inaccessible for me.

[Admin]

If I'm right there's not that much to do about. Try this for now;

*Start Sopcast manually

*Go to our schedule pages

*Copy the link manually (right mouse on the PLAY link --> copy the url location/copy hyperlink with sop://)

*Put it on top in the sopcast adress bar

*Press enter/the blue white arrow , and the channel will start

Then you can get all channels to work, and enjoy all streams. It's a workaround. You can only try reinstalling to see if it get's fixed by that in the end, or maybe cleaning some registry files. But unsure if that works.

[TheHurtLocker873]

Thanks admin. Just tried your method on a poker link. It seemed to work........ Except the channel is offline, lol.

Dosn't seem to be another sopcast link to anything else for about an hour, so I'll try that method again tomorrow. It does appear to be the solution, as the 'channel off line' message was on the player and not in a grey box. So that's encouraging!

Once again, Thanks for your help!!!

Edit... Yep this definately works. Thanks.

[Admin]

Okay glad to hear that. Yeah the skysports sop channels got some issues now so that's why it shows offline, we hope they work soon again.

[RedPenguin]

Does the window version have any command line switches?

Basically I run XBMC and VLC and wish to just send a URL to Sopcast which I can do easily already by just doing "sopcast sop://....." and it opens said channel.

But does sopcast.exe have command line arguments to run hidden or others?

Also, is there any version of sp-sc-auth for Windows?

[actonbhoyrob]

Hi, i tried streaming on sopcast and it says it buffered to 100% but when pple go to view it it's blank and then says can not retrive data plz help
i was using windows media encoder > sopcast

[Admin]

Can you open your own source locally in WMP, and does it work then?

[Big Mac]

Hi, i tried streaming on sopcast and it says it buffered to 100% but when pple go to view it it's blank and then says can not retrive data plz help
i was using windows media encoder > sopcast

What bitrate are you streaming at? And what is your upload speed?

You will need an upload of at least 2Mb in order to broadcast a 600kb stream

[actonbhoyrob]

Thanks 4 the reply, i was streaming at 600kbps and my upload is just under 1mb . 0.97
@admin now i didn't try that (sorry im a bit of a noob when it comes to p2p streaming)

[Big Mac]

Thanks 4 the reply, i was streaming at 600kbps and my upload is just under 1mb . 0.97

With that upload. the most you could stream is 300k. That explains why your audience was reporting failure..... you were not uploading enough data for them to retrieve

[actonbhoyrob]

With that upload. the most you could stream is 300k. That explains why your audience was reporting failure..... you were not uploading enough data for them to retrieve

Thx 4 the reply, I will test it again today @300/250k and see if that helps or is any better thx bigmac..

[actonbhoyrob]

Still no joy even tried at 175kbps i think i just not able to stream on sopcast

[deshardiii]

How can i make my own chlist.xml and what other files to i have to modify when i want to build my own list with 10 sopcast streams?

[men in blue]

i tried all this stuffs but no joy ,same no video no audio,only black screen i am also using windows 7

Works fine with windows 7, maybe you're missing some codecs? You got the latest sopcast?

My Screen stays on black?
Yes you can indeed have this problem. Some channels only use VLC codecs. A fast guide can be found here: http://forum.wiziwig.eu/threads/5768-Sopcast-with-VLC

Or you can Download VLC first, see http://www.wiziwig.tv/softwareitem.p...&part=software . Install it and start VLC. To open a Sopcast channel yet in VLC: Open file --> network stream --> select http --> 127.0.0.1:8902 (the end can change to 8912 or 8903) and don't forget to press ok.. Now it will work, so if you've got this Black screen error just open it in VLC

[zephyr923]

Hi there,
I am using sopcast 3.4.8 installed on window 7 home edition.
whenever i starts playing it, sopcast is loading to 15 to 30 % after that the follwoing error come out and the application stopped.
: sopcast main application is stopped working". i also attached the picture of error.

I would be very grateful if anyone can advise me.
Sopcast error.jpg

[DEAD_MAN_WALKING]

I'm not recording channels. how do I?

If that dont work open the stream in VLC and press record...

[shuro]

Hi Friend I have got a problem
Yesterday I recorded the match by using Sopcast to stream the channel and clicked the "record" button
afterwards I fell asleep
then when i woke up, i found the channel has already forced closed and invalid
I checked to the recorded wmv and tried to open it

The wmv file can be opened
however, when I fast forwarded the video
the screen freezed and I cannot load the video

[onesoccertv]

seems to be big issues with sopcast from 2 days, I cant streaming anymore says "can not connecting sopcast"

someone to help me, please !

[Tony07]

Hiya, can one of the mods please give me a link for the following please..............................sopcast veetle many thanks