Watching Web TV with Sopcast on ubuntu
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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.
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
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:
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.
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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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Got my Ubunt box…. got linux sopcast… now I got lots of free TV! Thanks for the easy instructions
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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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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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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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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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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:
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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the same error happens to me. i have lucid and installed sopcast player 0.4.1-1~lffl~lucid~ppa
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