Sopcast is a software which you can use to watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet. You also can broadcast your on tv channel if you want for free. On Vista, I used Sopcast to watch Formula1 race. When I am using Ubuntu, I have no idea how to watch the show. I look around and finally I found one post on Ubuntu forum discussing about how to install Sopcast.
On Windows, Sopcast comes with really good user interface but not on Linux. So you need to install special modified code to get the GUI
Installing Sopcast
Here is what was posted in the ubuntuforum.org
Download the latest Sopcast binary over here and unzip the file. I assume you download the file to your Desktop. So using terminal, you need to type:
cd Desktop
tar zxvf sp-auth.tgz
cd sp-auth
sudo cp sp-sc-auth /usr/bin/sp-sc
Download the gtk-sopcast.deb here and use gdebi to install it by double click on that downloaded file. Wait the installation process to finish. Then you are good to go.
Update:
- This installation procedure work for both Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 7.10.
- You can lunch the player by going to Applications >> Sound & Video >> Sopcast TV Player.
- To lunch the video in vlc player,once the application open, goto config and set the player setting to “vlc” without the quote and make sure the channel url is set to http://www.sopcast.com/gchlxml
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Thanks I just downloaded files you mentioned. I will try it shortyl.
BTW sopcast is very cool service.
I agree with you, sopcast really a good software.there are a lot of channels you can watch. Hopefully you get it work in your system.
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how to Download the gtk-sopcast.deb and use gdebi to install it?
please need specific directions
@ iva
Here the link to dowload the file.
http://linuxtoy.org/files/deb/gtk-sopcast_0.2.8-1_i386.deb
Then double click on that file. A window will open, then click on install package. Wait for the installation process to finish. Good luck!
Hi, i was glad to find this tutorial for sopcast. There doesn’t seem to be many around.
I followed your installation guide. Went to Applications>Sound & Video and indeed Sopcast Tv Player was there. Clicked on it and i got dialog ‘[psopcast]’ up. I hit the middle tab ‘config’ and changed to vlc like you suggested as i don’t have mplayer anyhow, like this: vlc -ontop -geometry 100%:100%
Next i also added the url like you said, like this: http://www.sopcast.com/gchlxml
I hit save and went back to sopcast tab.
However, i’m not able to get anything to play. Channel list populated and when i double clicked on a selection i saw the buffer go from 0%to 100% eventually but vlc didn’t launch and i got no audio or visual… I shut down sopcast and relaunched and now the channel list won’t even populate ??? Help please?! :/