SopCast

=About= SopCast is used to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet based op P2P.

=Installation=

SopCast in unfortunately not included in portage at the moment, but there exists an ebuild on Gentoo Bugzilla. To install this download the file to "/usr/local/portage/media-tv/sopcast/sopcast-1.1.1.ebuild".

Open the downloaded file in your favorite editor and change the line

to

Before continuing be sure that you have enabled the PORTDIR_OVERLAY, in your make.conf check for the following line and add if needed.

Once this is done it's needed to create the Manifest, it the ebuild-dir run:

Once this is done, emerge the package

=Usage= Open the stream with

and view it with

=Automization=

This is a script which Open the sopcast stream and plays it in mplayer and exits stream when mplayer is closed.

Just copy the text into /usr/local/bin/sopcast

start viewing with

=Firefox integration= Assuming you've already created the script above:


 * 1) write about:config into the address bar and press Enter.
 * 2) Right-click -> New -> Boolean -> Name: network.protocol-handler.expose.sop -> Value -> false
 * 3) Next time you click a sop:// link you will be asked which application to open it with. Chose /usr/local/bin/sopcast

you can now open streams directly from firefox