Projects - Installing Sop Cast

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You always watch TV using pplive or sopcast in Microsoft Windows, can GNU/Linux do that? The answer will be Yes after reading this section - Watching TV program on GNU/Linux using gtk-sopcast.

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sp_sc

#tar xvf sp_sc.0.8.1.tar
#cd sp_sc.0.8.1
#chmod +x sp_sc
#mv sp_sc /usr/local/bin

sopcast

#tar xvfj gtk2.0_sopcast-0.1.tar.bz2
#cd gtk2.0_sopcast-0.1/
#make
#make install

Using

Select a channel list row then click "Sopcast" or directly double click the channel list row to start watching TV.

Click button "Player" to restart the media player.²
Click button "Channel" to update the channel list.
Click button "Record" to be prepared for recording. The default directory to store recorded files is ~/SOPCAST.

The "Player:" entry determines the media player you choose. The default value "aoss mplayer -ontop -geometry 100%:100%" uses mplayer to play media, which can be changed to other forms like "xterm -e mplayer".

Console³

sp_sc sop://sop.sopcast.org:3919/official/cctv5 8900 8800
mplayer -vo xvidix http://localhost:8800

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Related Links

sopcast: http://www.sopcast.org/
gtk-sopcast: http://lianwei3.googlepages.com/home2
pplive: http://www.pplive.com/
LinuxSir.Org#sopcast
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1. They are for gtk+2.0 and gtk+1.2 respectively, choose one of them you want.

2. Read MplayerInstall for the information about MPlayer.

3. Refer to channel list from http://www.sopcast.org/.

Updated: February 6, 2007	Home / Index / ChangeLog	Edited by Haiyong Zheng