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How to Setup P2P Tv with gtk-SopCast on Ubuntu 9.04

SopCast, where SoP stands for Streaming over P2P (Peer-to-Peer) is “a simple, free way to broadcast vclasseo and audio or watch the vclasseo and listen to radio on the Internet.”

 

To get a working Sopcast on Ubuntu 9.04;

– First download the gtk-sopcast file and install the .Deb

– Second, you need the latest version of the SopCast client – sp-auth.tgz

Copy the sp-sc-auth file from the sp-auth.tgz package into your /usr/bin folder and rename to sp-sc quickly do so with
sudo cp sp-sc-auth /usr/bin/sp-sc

Now give the sp-sc executable to the right owner: the root
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/sp-sc

You’ll now find the Sopcast TV Player at Applications -> Sound & Vclasseos -> Sopcast TV Player

Sopcast TV Player is configured to use MPlayer – sudo apt-get install mplayer, but you can also use VLC to pull in the stream vclasseo – at the Config tab, Player entry; type-in vlc

To get Firefox to open Sopcast links with gSopCast do:

On Firefox address bar, enter: about:config
Right click, select new and string.
Set string name to: network.protocol-handler.app.sop
Set value to: gsopcast

When you launch SopCast Tv Player, wait for a few seconds and let it populate the channel list. A double-click launches your desired channel and when the buffer reaches 100% percent, VLC or Mplayer (depending on what you configured) will pop-up and get your streaming vclasseo on.

Use TV portals like MyP2P TV (offers Live Sports) to know what Live streaming TV channels you can watch and what the offer.

via [gsopcast] [UbuntuForum]

8 Comments;

  1. Martin Kaba
    10:22 pm on May 12th, 2009

    @bigdaddymerk @Jim_san @tanomsak @beAtorrent How to Setup P2P Tv with gtk-SopCast on Ubuntu 9.04 http://tinyurl.com/qnyl5k

  2. Manu
    12:01 am on May 15th, 2009

    I used SopLaunch sometime ago on Gutsy Gibbon, but won’t work on Jaunty, any ideas? how u ever tried it.

  3. Xex
    12:03 am on May 15th, 2009

    thanks this is what i wanted, i ‘m a web tv lover :-)

  4. Momo
    4:36 am on May 28th, 2009

    thx.

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    11:00 pm on June 18th, 2009

    […] my Ubuntu box streaming Tv boils down to two applications/web applications, SopCast and Justin.tv. The first, Sopcast needs to be installed on your system, the latter Justin.tv, goes […]

  6. vito
    8:16 am on November 2nd, 2009

    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.

  7. doruk
    10:13 pm on November 10th, 2009

    Thank you very much for this information!

  8. Fun With Linux
    2:00 pm on November 17th, 2009

    How to Setup P2P Tv with gtk-SopCast on Ubuntu 9.04 | Kabatology ~ Open Source, Linux / http://bit.ly/2aIWGV