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There is one more reason to keep you glued on your seat while surfing the internet. Enjoy watching free TV broadcast using P2P technology from SopCast. I have used this before to watch a boxing game of our very own Manny Pacquiao Live! without commercial breaks. Enjoy!

SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet. Adopting P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology, It is very efficient and easy to use. Let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of a powerful server and vast bandwidth. You can build your own TV stations comparable with large commercial sites with minimal resources. Using SopCast, you can serve 10,000 online users with a personal computer and a home broadband connection.

SoP is the abbreviation for Streaming over P2P. Sopcast is a Streaming Direct Broadcasting System based on P2P. The core is the communication protocol produced by Sopcast Team, which is named sop://, or Sop technology.

Features:

• State-of-the-art P2P technology. Share the data among all viewers, make the channel more available and stable.
• Minimal delay in the P2P streaming market.
• Fast buffering. 10-30seconds.
• Firewall and NAT traversal technology to pass 90% P2P barriers.
• Build your own channels and broadcast it over the Internet.
• Streaming real time streams. Support for many streaming transport protocol. mms, http, etc.
• Streaming media files. Many file types: asf, wmv, rm, rmvb, mp3, etc.
• Support for loop file playing.
• Extremely low memory footprint and CPU load
• Standard channel URL: click on any sop:// URL to play.
• Real time monitor of broadcasting source quality and network quality to help viewers to select a appropriate channel.
• Record the clips when you are watching it.
• Can play the stream with your favorite player, such as Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, VLC, etc.
• Memory buffering, no harm to the hard disk.
• Support for authentication for both the broadcasters and the viewers. The broadcaster has full control on his channels.
• End-to-End security, encrypted messages, hi level P2P security, no hijack.
• Support multiple channels broadcast on the same server. Normally, you can run 5-10 channels on one PC.
• The Sop Player can be embedded into a webpage or any software applications. It works just like Windows Media Player.
• The Sop Server and Sop Player can be run both on Windows and Linux. The whole system can be ported to embedded Linux.
• Freeware, not ad/spy ware

Mozilla Firefox user’s worry no more, initially sopcast works only in IE because of it’s Windows Media Player. Now you can download a firefox plugin to have windows media player run in firefox.Links:

Mozilla User’s Manual - Firefox v 1.5

If you’re using a different version of firefox, you can get the plugin here.

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