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.