Version 0.3.3 of the great SopCast Player has been released the other day along with sp-auth 3.2.6. A PPA for Ubuntu Karmic Koala is also available. Simply

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jason-scheunemann/ppa

to add the repository.

sudo apt-get install sopcast-player

installs all the necessary software.

Information about how to open Sop links from Firefox can be found in the wiki.

SopCast Player

As of Karmic Koala Ubuntu introduces a new and simplified way to add repositories. From the command line you would just add

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

to register for example the Xorg-Edgers repository with APT and acquire the public key if required in one step.

I usually make use of a couple of third party repositories like Medibuntu, Xorg-Edgers, SMPlayer and XBMC SVN. Beeing a heavy user of Guake terminal this is just a very convenient and fast way to work with repositories.

SopCast Player won’t work in Karmic Koala. That’s because the lack of libstdc++5 which can however easily be installed from the Jaunty repositories http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libstdc++5.

I recently discovered that I wouldn’t have sound over the internal speakers of my nx8220 after waking up from suspend in Karmic Koala Beta. This seems to be a known regression in the Kernel and I wasn’t in the mood of trying to fix it the hard way. What I found out though is that

sudo alsa force-reload

brings sound back.

I really like the Dust GTK theme. What I missed though is the incredible Dustfox Firefox theme available here: https://launchpad.net/dusttheme-firefox.

As mentioned earlier this year Sopcast delivers a great possibility to watch international football over the internet. Those who don’t like GTK-sopcast can now switch over to SopCast-Player.

SopCast Player is designed to be an easy to use Linux GUI front-end for the p2p streaming technology developed by SopCast. SopCast Player features an integrated video player, a channel guide, and bookmarks. Once SopCast Player is installed it simply “just works” with no required configuration.

GUI lovers will definitely improve their P2P streaming experience. Previous installations of GTK-sopcast will have to be removed prior to installing SopCast-Player, though.

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