SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet. Adopting P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology, It is very efficient and easy to use. Let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of a powerful server and vast bandwidth. You can build your own TV stations comparable with large commercial sites with minimal resources. Using SopCast, you can serve 10,000 online users with a personal computer and a home broadband connection.SoP is the abbreviation for Streaming over P2P. Sopcast is a Streaming Direct Broadcasting System based on P2P. The core is the communication protocol produced by Sopcast Team, which is named sop://, or Sop technology. Features: • State-of-the-art P2P technology. Share the data among all viewers, make the channel more available and stable. • Minimal delay in the P2P streaming market. • Fast buffering. 10-30seconds. • Firewall and NAT traversal technology to pass 90% P2P barriers. • Build your own channels and broadcast it over the Internet. • Streaming real time streams. Support for many streaming transport protocol. mms, http, etc. • Streaming media files. Many file types: asf, wmv, rm, rmvb, mp3, etc. • Support for loop file playing. • Extremely low memory footprint and CPU load • Standard channel URL: click on any sop:// URL to play. • Real time monitor of broadcasting source quality and network quality to help viewers to select a appropriate channel. • Record the clips when you are watching it. • Can play the stream with your favorite player, such as Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, VLC, etc. • Memory buffering, no harm to the hard disk. • Support for authentication for both the broadcasters and the viewers. The broadcaster has full control on his channels. • End-to-End security, encrypted messages, hi level P2P security, no hijack. • Support multiple channels broadcast on the same server. Normally, you can run 5-10 channels on one PC. • The Sop Player can be embedded into a webpage or any software applications. It works just like Windows Media Player. • The Sop Server and Sop Player can be run both on Windows and Linux. The whole system can be ported to embedded Linux. • Freeware, not ad/spy ware What's New in version 3.0.3: • Improve the data transfering performance • Fixed a bug in data transfering layer • Fixed a bug in lauching external player • Add a FAQ tab in client • Fixed some other minor bugs