Mar 17, 2011

SopCast on my Mac

Here is the solution of watching live soccer match with SopCast that works on my Mac.

Hardware
MacBook
2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Software
Mac OS X 10.4.11
X11 1.1.3
WineBottler 1.1.44 (http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/)
SopCast 3.2.9 (http://www.sopcast.org/)
MPlayer OSX Extended rev11 (http://www.mplayerosx.ch/)

Steps
1. Make sure X11 is properly installed.
2. Open WineBottler dmg file and install Wine.app.
3. Run Wine. It should have created a virtual "drive_c" under the user directory in Mac.
4. Place the SopCast exe installation file somewhere inside "drive_c" in the Mac environment.
5. Open Control Panel in Wine. (which would also launch X11)
6. Install SopCast by locating the installation file in Wine. (which would be installed in "driver_c/Program Files")
7. Open File Manager in Wine. Run SopCast.
8. Connect to a channel. A Player should slide out without screen (but it's progressing).
10. Run MPlayer OSX Extended in Mac. Open Preferences and make sure Cache is enabled, like say 16 MB.
11. Open location mms://127.0.0.1:8902. (Try 8903 or 8912 if it failed)

That's it!

Notes
If the OS version is later than 10.4, newer software version or different combination could be used. This is just one of the possible solutions that works in my situation.

Reference
http://www.myp2pforum.eu/threads/9529-Sopcast-on-Mac?p=180663#post180663

3 comments:

  1. Thank you, very many!!!

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  2. Thanks for the walkthrough, it worked! Although it worked I still have one problem. My video stutters, audio is fine. It just skips some frames every second. Got any solution?

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  3. Now the official sopcast for Mac is available. Go ahead to the official website.

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