Watching Web TV with Sopcast on ubuntu

This post was written by admin on June 5, 2009
Posted Under: General

You may want to watch live media from the web in your ubuntu,and Sopcast player is designed for Linux user with an integrated video player,a channel guide,and bookmarks.

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To install Sopcast,you need to download following two packages from site:http://code.google.com/p/sopcast-player/downloads/list

For i386 :

sopcast-player_0.2.1-1_i386.deb

sp-auth_3.0.1_i386.deb

For amd64:

sopcast-player_0.2.1-1_amd64.deb

sp-auth_3.0.1_amd64.deb

Navigate to the directory you downloaded the files ,double click to open and click on Install Package.

When the installation finish,restart and you will find Sopcast player at Applications–>Internet–>Sopcast Player

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Click on it to open up,and try following if nothing happens

First,make sure you have Python version 2.5 installed:

sudo apt-get install python2.5

Then execute:

sudo gedit /usr/bin/sopcast-player

Change it so it looks like this:

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Close and save it,then restart.

Now,It should starts up.For a channel list,click on “Channel Guide”button, and you can change channel guide URL at Channel Guide tab of Edit–>Preferences.

Tags: Internet

Reader Comments

Superb instructions.
I can get as far as opening a channel on sopcast; the vlc player opens, and it would seem to be doing *something*, but I have no sound or video!! (other videos that I have on my machine are able to play…)
Maybe something to do with codecs? I really don’t know.
Got any suggestions?
Thanks
Nik

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Written By Nik on August 1st, 2009 @ 8:22 am

Got my Ubunt box…. got linux sopcast… now I got lots of free TV! Thanks for the easy instructions

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Written By Internet Streams on August 24th, 2009 @ 1:25 pm

Thanks for the instructions! I got it (kind of) working when changing the line in the sopcast file to “.py” instead of “.pyc”.

Cheers!

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Written By Johan on October 17th, 2009 @ 7:25 am

i get stucked at installing
the sp_auth file needs a library that is no longer available (so says kpackagekit)libstdc++5
i have instead already installed the 6-4 version of it
any advice?

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Written By tzepu on October 19th, 2009 @ 5:31 am

Here you can find sopcast-player for ubuntu karmic Koala 9.10: http://www.sourceslist.eu/installare-software-tramite-repository/installare-sopcast-player-0-3-0-su-ubuntu-karmic-koala-9-10-in-pochi-click/

Because the original version that you can find on googlecode don’t work with Ubuntu 9.10.

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admin Reply:
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:56 am

Thanks,vito

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Written By vito on November 2nd, 2009 @ 12:13 am

sopcast-player
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/sopcast-player/lib/sopcast-player.py”, line 1783, in
pySop = pySopCast()
File “/usr/share/sopcast-player/lib/sopcast-player.py”, line 371, in __init__
self.vlc = VLCWidget.VLCWidget(*p)
File “/usr/share/sopcast-player/lib/VLCWidget.py”, line 28, in __init__
self.player=instance.mediacontrol_new_from_instance()
AttributeError: ‘Instance’ object has no attribute ‘mediacontrol_new_from_instance’

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Written By afrodeity on June 1st, 2010 @ 12:10 pm

have the same problem here…. it gives me this when running in terminal…
sopcast-player
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/sopcast-player/lib/sopcast-player.py”, line 1783, in
pySop = pySopCast()
File “/usr/share/sopcast-player/lib/sopcast-player.py”, line 371, in __init__
self.vlc = VLCWidget.VLCWidget(*p)
File “/usr/share/sopcast-player/lib/VLCWidget.py”, line 28, in __init__
self.player=instance.mediacontrol_new_from_instance()
AttributeError: ‘Instance’ object has no attribute ‘mediacontrol_new_from_instance’

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admin Reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 10:01 pm

Do you have VLC 1.1.0 rc The Luggage installed in your machine?Sopcast sounds like have something problem with the latest VLC.
You can try this to fix the problem:

disable the 3rd party ppa for vlc
reinstalled the 1.0.6 version
reinstalled sopcast

If you are unwilling to un-install the latest VLC,you can try gsopcast or qsopcast instead:
http://code.google.com/p/gsopcast/
GTK version of sopcast, has no problem with VLC

http://code.google.com/p/qsopcast/
QT version of sopcast, has no problem with VLC

Both have difficulty with downloading the menu, but you can manually choose.

http://www.sopcast.com/gchlxml
http://www.sopcast.cn/gchlxml
http://channel.sopcast.com/gchlxml

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Written By suli on June 10th, 2010 @ 4:00 pm

the same error happens to me. i have lucid and installed sopcast player 0.4.1-1~lffl~lucid~ppa

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Written By sergio on July 19th, 2010 @ 2:16 pm

All the issues surrounding the different versions of the VLC bindings has been cleared up with the latest version of SopCast Player. I have implemented an automatic fall-back mechanism that will find the most appropriate version of the bindings to use, no user-intervention required. If you would like to give it a try please goto http://sopcast-player.googlecode.com for detailed instructions.

Warm Regards,
Jason

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Written By flyguy97 on May 8th, 2011 @ 1:33 am