Sopcast with VLC

[Admin]

With the new release (Since 2.0.4 and higher) it's easy to let Sopcast open with VLC. Very helpfull when you want to watch some specific channels which only work with VLC. You only have to setup this once and you can use it all the time.

How to do?;

* Make sure to have the latest Sopcast, or version 2.0.4, 3.0.0 or 3.0.1 and newer
* Download VLC:
MAC OSX Download VLC media player for Mac OS X
Windows Download VLC media player for Windows
* Install it

* Open Sopcast, and go to Options (at the bottom --> Option)
* Choose the external player
* Use my Own Media Player
* Select there VLC.exe (tip: search for VLC on your pc --> in the folder/map there you can select the VLC icon)
* Standard is C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe

Accept this, and restart Sopcast. Yet you can easy open it in the external VLC player. Start a channel, wait untill it has buffered > 30%, and then select the below button;



Now it will open in VLC and you can see the channel normally. This can be done everytime you don't get a picture or you get a weird screen. Keep the trick in mind as you can need it quite a few times.

Or, Open VLC --> Open Network stream --> Http --> 127.0.0.1:8902 and press ok. But sopcast and a channel should be running first (as usual)!

Enjoy


Not running smooth or you got issues?

Originally Posted by Big Mac
The following may help the smoothness of your stream in VLC

• Open VLC
• From the VLC Menu select Tools
• From the drop down menu select Preferences
• From the menu on the left side select Video
• In the display section uncheck the following two options:

Advanced Video Output (Overlay)
Use Hardware YUV->RGB Conversions

• When they are unchecked, click Save.

Then close and restart VLC.

[magna]

Excellent Addition to the Program
works Great !!!

Magna

[paulmck1888]

[When I click that button it plays in WMP which is ok however I would like to make it play in vlc. Im guessing I have to tell sopcast vlc is my default player? If yes, how?


Edit- Its ok I worked it out. Sorry for a wasted post :)

[CLELTICS]

VLC has any advantage over wmp if the link is working ok on both?

Tks

[JayJayNouma]

wooowwww THNAX THANX THANX

[planner]

Hi. I have followed the instructions above to use VCL but the 'Select this button' remains greyed out. Do you know what I am doing wrong?

[Admin]

it only works when you buffer is near 40% .. then you can click it, when a channel is loaded.

[planner]

On the screen there is a green bar which shows loading or communication 76% and the 'select this button is still greyed out. How do I know when the buffer has reached 40%?

[Funlovin]

Ok it works with me for 3mins and then Sopcast dies on me :(

I'm running Windows Vista and this always happens in Sopcast it runs alright for 5mins then it dies on me.

This is what is says, Ok it's in german but maybe some one can help me :)

Problemsignatur:
Problemereignisname: APPCRASH
Anwendungsname: SopCast.exe
Anwendungsversion: 2.0.4.1126
Anwendungszeitstempel: 474a7708
Fehlermodulname: sockspy.dll
Fehlermodulversion: 0.0.0.0
Fehlermodulzeitstempel: 458bf18b
Ausnahmecode: c0000005
Ausnahmeoffset: 00002b50
Betriebsystemversion: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Gebietsschema-ID: 1060
Zusatzinformation 1: 980f
Zusatzinformation 2: fd239bb0c9b5a35ae39d91b85a32bc64
Zusatzinformation 3: 8b09
Zusatzinformation 4: 92216409152433c8f1d6fabb42f01250

Please.

Could at be a codec problem? I have the Gordian.Knot.Codec.Pack.1.6. and the Klite.

[Admin]

uninstall sopcast fully, remove all stuff ;

Yes, that's 1 of the most commong Sopcast problems. You've got more instancies of sopcast installed then. Close your browser, uninstall Sopcast and make sure to remove the whole folder also. Then download the latest version, install again and it will work.

[Funlovin]

Tnx for the quick anwser, but I've done that like 3 time already:(

Still it crashes on me... ??

[elkapatain]

admin tried your idea above like everything else that does not work sopcast is crap a worthless fricken program..nothing works for me

[planner]

Admin any answer on my question above?

[dapxin]

Tnx for the quick anwser, but I've done that like 3 time already:(

Still it crashes on me... ??

Folks,

After unistalling sopcast, grab registry crawler here http://downloads.pcworld.com/pub/new/utilities/regc.exe install it, and search for sopcast with it deleteing every entry.

After you are sure it is been completely deleted. resinstall sopcast and you should be fine.

[Admin]

On the screen there is a green bar which shows loading or communication 76% and the 'select this button is still greyed out. How do I know when the buffer has reached 40%?

don;t you see the green bar? if it's passed 40 or 50% you should be able to click the specific button to open with VLC...

[two shakes]

Hi first post,first of all can i just say,great site, great streams.Now onto my problem,when watching some of the streams on the older version of sopcast using vlc,my computer has closed and restarted several times by itself.Don't seem to have this problem when using the sopcast player,but then have trouble with the buffering speed.Has anyone else experienced this?
I have now installed sopcast 2.0.4.and set the vlc player as my media player in the options as suggested,will this cure the computer shutting down problem,or is there another issue causing this.Thanks in advance,Bill

[planner]

On the screen there is a green bar which shows loading or communication 76% and the 'select this button is still greyed out. How do I know when the buffer has reached 40%?

don;t you see the green bar? if it's passed 40 or 50% you should be able to click the specific button to open with VLC...

I see the green bar and as I mentioned in my previous post the figure goes beyond 40 or 50% and the 'two square' icon is still greyed out. Any ideas why it is not working?

[Funlovin]

Tnx for the quick anwser, but I've done that like 3 time already:(

Still it crashes on me... ??

Folks,

After unistalling sopcast, grab registry crawler here http://downloads.pcworld.com/pub/new/utilities/regc.exe install it, and search for sopcast with it deleteing every entry.

After you are sure it is been completely deleted. resinstall sopcast and you should be fine.

Did what you said , and still it crashes on me. Every know and then it works for 5min but then it crashes. Really don't have a clue...

[dapxin]

Tnx for the quick anwser, but I've done that like 3 time already:(

Still it crashes on me... ??

Folks,

After unistalling sopcast, grab registry crawler here http://downloads.pcworld.com/pub/new/utilities/regc.exe install it, and search for sopcast with it deleteing every entry.

After you are sure it is been completely deleted. resinstall sopcast and you should be fine.

Did what you said , and still it crashes on me. Every know and then it works for 5min but then it crashes. Really don't have a clue...

There may be something deeply wrong with ur OS.

I ll suggest a fresh reinstall but you may try the older sopcast instead of the new one. But if you keep getting application crash (on XP, I guess) its gotta be a malware or virus infection...

Try ad-aware and hijack scan and post results here but if you got the time and dont want to bother with troubleshooting, just reload windows and i promise you ll be fine.

[kgb714]

Tnx for the quick anwser, but I've done that like 3 time already:(

Still it crashes on me... ??

Folks,

After unistalling sopcast, grab registry crawler here http://downloads.pcworld.com/pub/new/utilities/regc.exe install it, and search for sopcast with it deleteing every entry.

After you are sure it is been completely deleted. resinstall sopcast and you should be fine.

I hope this works for me. Last nite i was struggling with Sopcast and tvants desperately trying to watch the game but sopcast kept crashing and Tvants kept showning popups instead of loading.