10:36 PM
TV-Maxe is an application that you can use to watch TV stations online, through a P2P technology called
SopCast. It comes with two TV channel lists by default: one international and one Romanian, but more unofficial lists are available on its
wiki (for France, Hungary, United Kingdom, Danmark, Spain, Russia and Ukraine).
TV-Maxe 0.07 has been released recently, bringing some important changes both under-the-hood as well as to the end users:
- HTTP remote control: TV Maxe already had support for remote control via infrared, but the latest version also comes with HTTP remote control so all you need is a mobile phone or tabled with a working network connection to change TV channels, play/stop TV maxe and change or mute the volume.
- Gstreamer support which is more stable than the Mplayer or the VLC backends
- Separation of protocol engines and multimedia backends
- Faster startup
- Support for streams with multiple audio tracks
- Added support for multiple Sopcast sources for the same channel
- Channel list filtering
- Deleted channels management
- Extended support for RTMP streams
Install TV-Maxe (SopCast Player) in Ubuntu
To install the latest TV-Maxe in Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10, 11.04, 10.10 or 10.04, use the commands below:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:venerix/blug
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tv-maxe
For .rpm and source files, see the TV-Maxe downloads page.
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10:51 PM
Sopcast Player, the P2P streaming application that allows you to watch various TV channels online, is now available for Android, allowing you to watch TV on your Android smartphone or tablet. SopCast for Android is currently in beta and doesn't support all the features the desktop application does; for instance, you can't edit the server list, manually add a TV channel or open sopcast URLs. But the default TV channel list is pretty ok for most people.
SopCast for Android lets you see the defaultTV channel list and play any TV channel available in the list, log in using your account or anonymously, change the aspect ratio and that's about it.
In my test, the application worked great on my old HTC Desire HD running Android 2.3.5. Unfortunately I couldn't test it on newer Android devices but according to it's description, it should work on any device running Android 2.2+.
Main SopCast for Android features according to its official webpage:- Powered by latest SopCast P2P engine, supports all SopCast P2P channel types.
- Play local videos (supports most audio and video file types)
- Low CPU usage
- Memory buffering
Download SopCast for Android
SopCast for Android is not available in the Google Play Store, but you can download the .apk from one of the links below:
* the download is very slow right now using the official download link so I've added an alternate download link.
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7:56 PM
I've received quite a few requests to make a post on installing SopCast Player in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. So here are two SopCast applications that you can install in the latest Ubuntu:
Install Tv Maxe in Ubuntu
TV Maxe is a SopCast GUI that also supports mms, rmtp and http streams. By default, it comes with a Romanian channel list but more lists (International, UK, France, Danmark, Hungary, Spain, etc.) are available on its
wiki page.
TV Maxe comes with a PPA for Ubuntu Lucid, Maverick Natty and Oneiric - add it and install TV Maxe using the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:venerix/blug
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tv-maxe
Update: the TV Maxe PPA now supports Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin too.For other Linux distributions, see the
TV Maxe download page (but please note that you'll need to manually install the sp-auth package)
Install SopCast Player in Ubuntu
2. The LFFL SopCast PPA (ppa:ferramroberto/sopcast) hasn't been updated for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. The LFFL Sopcast PPA has just been updated for Oneiric. Add the PPA and install SopCast Player using the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/sopcast
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sopcast-player
Update: the ferramroberto/sopcast PPA now supports Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin too.If SopCast Player segfaults on 64bit, see this
work-around (thanks to Ivan for the tip!)
For both applications: please note that on 64bit, you'll have to install a huge list of dependencies because of the libstdc++5 dependency. Also, I've only tested the 32bit packages!
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