SopCast Client Manual

After Install Sopcast player and created a new account on www.sopcast.com

1. Login
Click on desktop to start your SopCast.

Sign in with your current user account at www.sopcast.com . If you don't have a user name yet, you may choose to sign in anonymously or click the link on lower-left corner to create a new account.

2. Home Tab

In the picture

a. Address area, channel history will listed in drop-down box, you can input a sop address ( such as sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/6001) in it to view a channel, click to start the channel.
b. Option Tab Area , include Home, Channel, and MyServer 3 tabs.
c. System menu Area (in blue Frame), include Sub(scribe), Apply, Option and Logout 4 Buttons。click Sub(scribe) button to gain more channels, click Apply button to Apply a your own channel.

3. Channel Tab

Channel list control buttons:


Press this button down to list all your favorate channels, press this button up to list all channels.
Press this button to Expand/Collapse channel list.
Press this button to Refresh channel list manually.

Press this button to choose the way of sorting channels, this can be by channel group, by class, by channel id, by regions, by language and by favorate. You can alse choose to view channel list in which language, noadays English and Chinese are available.

This blue bar is a channel quality indicator, click this bar to view detail information about this channel.

4. Player Window

Click channel name to open Player window and the channel will start automatically.

Player Option Buttons:

Press this button to hide main window and set player window top most. you can drag this window to any corner of your screen, thus you can view channels while you surfing over Internet. enjoy it.

Press this botton to display main window, and switch channels.

Press this button to Zoom out player window.
Press this button to Zoom in player window.
Press this button to Add the chanel to your Favorites.
Press this button to Record the channel.
This button will displayed when the channel is recording.
Press this button to Hide player window, this button is disabled when main window is hide.

Player control buttons:


Press this button to Start the channel.
Press this button to Stop the channel.
Press this button to Tune Volume.
Infomation box, name of the playing channel, buffer, and live massage will be shown in it.
Buffer indicator
When the channel buffer is high, but the picture is freeze, press this button to Refresh the picture.
Press this button to Switch player window to full screen.
Press this button to player the channel in external media player, such as Windows Media Player, RealPlayer.

From:www.sopcast.com