[MaxMustermann]

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).