Testing...

Let's see how this works. Allegedly, in order for the Sopcast web player to work, you need Microsoft Internet Explorer. Seeing that I generally use Mozilla Firefox, I'm not sure how well this is going to work. Either way, I believe you still need the Sopcast client installed for it to work.

Here we go...

Sancta Missa Website

From the the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius...

http://www.sanctamissa.org/EN/index.html

Why wasn't something like this done a long time ago? A website tutorial on how to pray the Traditional Latin Mass seems like a good idea to me...

ICTM,
Chuck, MI

OK...Need a Beta Tester or Two...

Setting up the Sopcast was not too hard; it was actually quite easier than Peercast, and easier to change my IP address without having to change the link constantly. It's running at home, but now I need some people to help me test it, since we apparently have new firewalls at my day job (for the next couple of weeks, anyway, before I start my new job) that don't like peer-to-peer anything, let alone broadcasting, it may be better for me to get some beta testers from my friends.

Here's what you do...

Download the Sopcast client at http://www.sopcast.org/download/

Then follow this link: sop://broker1.sopcast.com:3912/29085

Let me know if this works. I may have to tweak the firewall.

ICTM,
Chuck, MI

That Was Quick...

We've been on Sopcast for a total of 23 minutes, and we've already have a viewer! I guess that answers my question...

There's apparently a way to embed my live feed into the blog, so it'll be considerably easier to watch...

More later...

ICTM,
Chuck, MI

Feed Will Drop Shortly...

Just giving a head's up (to our two or three viewers) that the feed will be dropping shortly as we make the transition from Peercast to Sopcast. Oh...and if you're reading this, say a little prayer that the computer I picked up today from Jack's Computers will work. He gives away old computers, monitors, and printers he can't sell due to obsolescence, and this looks like at least a Pentium II, which will work with the MPEG-2 encoder card that I have.

ICTM,
Chuck, MI

Sopcast?

Three weeks into netcasting, and Peercast has not been nearly as impressive as I originally thought. It seems as if you have to jump through way too many hoops in order to get things to work correctly. A colleague of mine suggested to go out with Sopcast. Sopcast apparently is based on the BitTorrent system. I think I'll be taking the feed down here this week sometime and installing Sopcast instead, just to see how well it goes out. I'll be bugging some of you to help out, so if you're interested, drop me a line.

Or I'll be in contact with you...

ICTM,
Chuck, MI