SopCast 3.3.2

**Data de inscriere :** **21/05/2011**

“Watch hundreds of TV channels or broadcast your own”

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As
we wrote in reviews for PPLive and TVUPlayer, television via streaming
P2P is part of the future of broadcasting - and SopCast is the app to
give you access.

The beauty of streaming via P2P is that anyone
can broadcast anything that they want, making it an incredibly
democratic medium. The two previously-cited programs are good examples
of the technology in action yet SopCast (so called because 'SoP' is an
abbreviation for 'Streaming over P2P') is arguably even better because
it allows you to easily broadcast your own channels.

In the
latest release of SopCast, there are virtually no noticeable interface
changes, so it's still extremely easy to use. On installation, you're
asked if you'd like to install the Ask.com search bar, which you can
de-select by clicking the checkbox. When you run SopCast, you can log in
either anonymously or, if you're planning on setting-up your own
channel, create your own account using the link at the bottom.

When
you login to SopCast, click on the Live Channels tabs so you can see
the channel listings. The first thing you notice is the number of
channels to choose from. There's absolutely everything here from obscure
Chinese channels (because the developers are based in China) to
mainstream offerings like The Discovery Channel (although again, you
will find many programs either dubbed or subtitled in Chinese). Some of
SopCast's channels are organized, such as by News and Sport but these
categories can be unreliable and the lower down you go, simply
indecipherable.

SopCast's channel window will pop out of the side
of the player but you can expand this to full screen or export it to
Windows Media Player using the vision controls on the panel. This truly
separates SopCast from the rest of the P2P TV streaming applications. If
you want to use a different media player (such as VLC Player), you can
do this by clicking on the Options button at the bottom of the main
interface.

SopCast's major draw though, and the reason why many
of its channels look like a garbled mess, is the fact that you can
broadcast your own channel on it. Once your program has been filmed,
edited and is uploaded on your PC, all you have to do is stream it via
SopCast and select a server address to which people can connect and
watch.

The quality of the broadcast in SopCast will very much
depend on the number of people connected (the more users there are, the
faster the video will stream). You can even create your own private
channel and decide what users can watch it by creating a network group,
thus enabling you to run your very own personal TV channel in SopCast.

SopCast
might look a bit confusing for the first-time user but, despite the
dominance of Chinese channels, it provides a whole new world of channels
to watch. What's more, it gives you the chance to start your own TV
channel.

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