Open sopcast links on Linux

Posted by Arkham on October 18th, 2008

SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch videos and listen to radio on the Internet. To install it:

$ yaourt -S sopcast

Now go to myp2p.eu and find a sopcast link for the event you want to watch.

$ SOPLINK=sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/48609
$ /usr/bin/sp-sc $SOPLINK 3908 8908 > /dev/null &
$ mplayer http://127.0.0.1:8908/tv.asf

Ta da!

sopcast

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