[WINDOWS] HOW-TO use SopCast as external player

MaxMustermann · 2011-08-24 12:39

There are 3 different approaches for playing Sopcast streams (e.g. sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/12345).

The only seamless integration known by now is using a DSPlayer version of XBMC and setup the SopFilter as Filter. (HowTo). There is also a pre-eden version of XBMC with DSPlayer (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=106629).
Use an external player:
- (Windows 32bit only) SopFilter
- (Windows 32bit only) Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC)
Windows: As soon as you have installed SopFilter you can use these links in all DirectShow video players such as MPC-HC.
Linux / Mac: see http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=871519&postcount=2 and http://www.myp2p.eu/softwareitem.php?sof...t=software

External Players can be defined in userdata\playercorefactory.xml.
Example for MPC-HC (Windows):

Code:

<playercorefactory> <players> <player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true"> <filename>C:\Programme\MPC HomeCinema\mpc-hc.exe</filename> <args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args> <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc> <hideconsole>false</hideconsole> <warpcursor>none</warpcursor> </player> </players> <rules action="prepend"> <rule protocols="sop" player="MPC-HC"/> </rules> </playercorefactory>
Start Sopcast hidden with commandline switches and let it stream back to xbmc (HowTo by membrane).

MaxMustermann · 2011-08-24 12:40

Linux (thanks to deckoff)

how to use sopcast and vlc for external player

1. Install and configure vlc
2. Install command-line sopcast (download)
3. Add libstdcpp5 if needed.

4. Download the command-line file from official site and copy it to /usr/bin.

5. Create a new text file, and copy the following to it. Be sure to mark the file as executable. Copy the file to /usr/bin. The name should be sopcast (case-sensitive)

Code:

#!/bin/sh 

# start streaming sopcast address $1 with sp-sc-auth, then start vlc and monitor both processes.

# author: Chickamade <anh.chick@gmail.com>

if ! Test $# -eq 1

then

    echo 'usage: Sopcast <sop://address>'

    exit 0

fi

if pgrep -f "sp-sc-auth $1"

then

    echo sopcast: Channel $1 already streaming, quitting >&2

    exit 0

fi

port=${1##*/}

#some modifications done by stoyan deckoff <deckoff@gmail.com>

#this edit ensures port number at which sopcast is streaming is between 10000-100000

#otherwise vlc will fire an error

while [ $port -gt 100000 ]

do

port=$(($port-100000))

done

if [ $port -lt 10000 ]

then

port=$(($port+10000))

fi

#echo $port

#end of stoyan deckoff modifications

echo sopcast: Starting stream $1 on port $port >&2

sp-sc-auth "$1" 3908 $port >/dev/null &

sp_sc=`pgrep -f "sp-sc-auth $1 3908 $port"`

if test -z $sp_sc

then

    echo sopcast: Stream $1 failed to start >&2

    exit 1

fi

sleep 20

vlc http://localhost:$port/tv.asf >/dev/null 2>&1 &

vlc=`pgrep -f "vlc http://localhost:$port/tv.asf"`

if test -z $vlc

then

    echo sopcast: Vlc failed to start >&2

    kill -9 $sp_sc

    exit 1

fi

while true

do

    if ! Ps $sp_sc > /dev/null

    then

        echo sopcast: Stream $1 died, killing vlc >&2

        kill $vlc

        exit 1

    fi

    if ! Ps $vlc > /dev/null

    then

        echo sopcast: Vlc not running, killing stream $1 >&2

        kill -9 $sp_sc

        exit 0

    fi

    sleep 10

done

exit 0

(this sh file is slightly modified version of sopcast.sh, found here)

6. in your ~/xbmc/userdata one should modify the playercorefactory.xml, or create a new one, with this contend added

Code:

<playercorefactory>

 <players>

   <player name="sopcast" type="externalplayer" audio="false" video="true">

     <filename>/usr/bin/sopcast</filename>

    <args>"{1}"</args>

     <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>

     <hideconsole>true</hideconsole>

   </player>

 </players>

 <rules action="prepend">

   <rule protocols="sop" player="sopcast"/>

 </rules>

</playercorefactory>

7. restart xbmc.

Successfully tested on xubuntu 11.04 and xbmc 10.1 stable

Notes:
Please wait for the stream to start. If the stream fails, vlc window will show for a fraction of a second. Wait for this to happen before trying with a new stream.
The stream will be re-directed to vlc, so the controls of vlc should be used.
The sopcast script was edited, so more than one stream is possible at the same time. Best thing about it is that if sopcast stream hangs and is not auto killed, this will not stop new streams for opening in vlc.

pritect · 2012-04-08 16:48

Hi

I have followed your guide, but how do i do to start a sopcast stream from xbmc? should i add the stream as a videofile? or how do i do?

Myrddraal · 2012-04-23 14:30

(2012-04-08 16:48)pritect Wrote: Hi

I have followed your guide, but how do i do to start a sopcast stream from xbmc? should i add the stream as a videofile? or how do i do?

You need to install the SportsDevil addon for instance.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=100031

iuliant · 2012-09-04 18:20

Hi

Could you please post a guide for how to add sopcast as external player for a MAC?(The link for MAC in first post is dead.)

Thank you,
Julian

cfcsteve · 2012-12-16 23:54

Could somebody please please help me?

I am trying to set up XBMC with DSPlayer and SportsDevil to watch SopCast streams 'seamlessly', mostly via the Wiziwig.tv catcher. I have tried this on 2 laptops, one a Windows 7 x86 machine and one WindowsXP.

My steps on both machines were as follows:

1. Install latest version of SopFilter (v3.0.3)
2. Use GraphStudioNext v0.5.0.1 to get GUID of SopFilter (registered as "SopCast ASF Splitter" / p2pfilter.dll).
3. Install XBMC DSPlayer. I have tried two different builds, both Eden, and both found in this thread:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=106629. I tried the build listed in the first post and also one called XBMCSetup-20120601-143a845-dx.exe. In both builds DSPlayer is the default player.
4. Install SportsDevil from MaxMustermann repo (found through fusion).
5. Create userdata\dsplayer\filterconfig.xml to register the SopFilter using its GUID:

<filtersconfig>
<filters>
<filter name="sopfilter" type="splitter">
<guid>{A895A82C-7335-4D6B-A811-82E9E3C4403E}</guid>
<osdname>SopFilter</osdname>
</filter>
</filters>
</filtersconfig>

6. Create userdata\dsplayer\mediasconfig.xml to point DSPlayer to the SopFilter when encountering a sop:// url:

<mediasconfig>
<rules>
<rule protocols="sop" filetypes=".*">
<source filter="sopfilter" />
<splitter filter="sopfilter" />
<video filter="mpcvideodec" />
<audio filter="lavaudiodec" /> </rule>
</rules>
</mediasconfig>

I get a couple different errors but mostly related to the SopFilter not loading as a source or generating an exception. When I use WMP to load the sop:// links, it works fine. Here are debug logs:

For the Win7 machine: http://pastebin.com/Nnnas9Sh
154.18:32:02 T:2124 NOTICE: Loading filter core factory settings from special://profile/dsplayer/filtersconfig.xml (filters configuration).
155.18:32:02 T:2124 NOTICE: Loading filter core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/players/dsplayer/filtersconfig.xml (filters configuration).
156.18:32:02 T:2124 NOTICE: Loading filter core factory settings from special://profile/dsplayer/mediasconfig.xml (medias configuration).
157.18:32:02 T:2124 NOTICE: Loading filter core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/players/dsplayer/mediasconfig.xml (medias configuration).
158.18:32:02 T:2124 NOTICE: Successfully loaded rules
159.18:32:02 T:2124 NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertAudioRenderer Successfully added "Default DirectSound Device" to the graph
160.18:32:02 T:2124 NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertFilter Successfully added "SopFilter" to the graph
161.18:32:02 T:2124 ERROR: CFGLoader::InsertSourceFilter An exception has been thrown by the codec...
162.18:32:02 T:2124 ERROR: CFGLoader::LoadFilterRules Failed to insert the source filter
163.18:32:02 T:2124 ERROR: CFGManager::RenderFileXbmc Failed to load filters rules

For the WinXP machine: http://pastebin.com/HLtHsema
859.16:38:14 T:1288 DEBUG: CFilterSelectionRule::GetFilters: adding filter: sopfilter for rule: un-named
860.16:38:14 T:1288 DEBUG: CFGFilterFile::Create Successfully loaded external filter (clsid:{A895A82C-7335-4D6B-A811-82E9E3C4403E} path:C:\Program Files\P2PFilter\p2pfilter.dll)
861.16:38:14 T:1288 NOTICE: CFGLoader::InsertFilter Successfully added "SopFilter" to the graph
862.16:38:14 T:1288 ERROR: CFGLoader::InsertSourceFilter Failed to load file in the splitter/source
863.16:38:14 T:1288 ERROR: CFGLoader::LoadFilterRules Failed to insert the source filter
864.16:38:14 T:1288 ERROR: CFGManager::RenderFileXbmc Failed to load filters rules

I strongly suspect that I've done something wrong in either or both of the xml config files, but I'm not experienced with XML so any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Steve

sobeitjedi · 2013-02-13 11:56

Can someone provide instructions (a dummies guide!) on how I do this for XBMC on a raspberry pi?

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iuliant Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: Sep 2011 Reputation: 0	2012-09-04 18:20 Post: #5 Hi Could you please post a guide for how to add sopcast as external player for a MAC?(The link for MAC in first post is dead.) Thank you, Julian
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