Sopcast?

[SuperGLS]

Anyone ever used Sopcast?

http://www.sopcast.org/

I want to watch some live cricket (Stanford 20/20 for those that know, which I know is nobody here, hah).

Is this a legitimate program that works well? Or is it more trouble than it's worth? I guess there is no Apple version (big surprise!), but if it's a good program then I can use our Dell laptop.

[hyunelan2]

I've used it before to watch Thursday night games on the NFL network, because I don't get the NFL network.

[TURBOgls]

never used it, but i might give it a try, looks kinds cool, thanks :)

[hyunelan2]

Oh, I should have put a review of the program. It is pretty-simple to use, but the quality and buffer-time of what you are trying to watch is dependent on the number of sources feeding it, and the number of sources trying to view it.

[SuperGLS]

Did you use it with IE or with FF?

I could watch this particular cricket on ESPN360, but I don't get that with Cox (stupid crap). So, if anyone wants to record it from there for me I'd be your best friend, but I know nobody is willing to waste 3 hours of their time doing that for me. Maybe if I threaten to shut down EXD...? Hmm? Ha.

[TURBOgls]

it's not letting me download it, i'd record it for you, you know i love you super :) :)

[hyunelan2]

Did you use it with IE or with FF?



I don't think either. It's an independent program, not a browser plug-in, IIRC. However, on that particular computer it would have been IE that I use.

[SuperGLS]

Seems to me that it can be used as a plug-in type application. That's what all the cricket sites seem to indicate. They all suggest using IE but give instructions for use with FF as well.

Hmm.

[steev-o]

i use it to watch football when im back home in europe. works great to me :)

[TURBOgls]

STILL won't let me download

[SuperGLS]

Anyone else have any experience with this?

[SuperGLS]

I see, there is a stand alone player and also a web player/browser plug-in.

I am watching live cricket right now. This is ****ing awesome. It's too bad I have to watch it on the wife's laptop instead of my computer which means I have to use a laptop keypad which I can't type on very well and am using IE. Live cricket is the best thing ever, well, maybe not, but it's cool. I might have to stay up until 6AM to watch the entire thing, yes!

[OPZ]

I see, there is a stand alone player and also a web player/browser plug-in.

I am watching live cricket right now. This is ****ing awesome. It's too bad I have to watch it on the wife's laptop instead of my computer which means I have to use a laptop keypad which I can't type on very well and am using IE. Live cricket is the best thing ever, well, maybe not, but it's cool. I might have to stay up until 6AM to watch the entire thing, yes!

The wife is ganna love how you steal her laptop now...haha

[SuperGLS]

I was surprised at the quality. I've never watched live TV of any kind on the internet. It was pretty good. A couple times it froze for a second or two, but, not bad for free live cricket.

I told her I was going to go buy her a new computer today so I could use the laptop for 100% cricket action, hah, she wasn't having any of that (plus we can't afford a 24" iMac right now).