New SopCast Player PPA Comes With Fixed Packages For Ubuntu 10.10

Roberto @ LFFL created a new SopCast PPA (he already had SopCast packages in a different PPA along with some other packages - for Lucid only) for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat so you no longer have to manually download .deb files and apply a fix to get Sopcast player to start.

To add the SopCast PPA and install Sopcast Player in Ubuntu 10.10, use the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/sopcast
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sopcast-player

The above PPA also has packages for Ubuntu 10.04, but SopCast won't work if you're using VLC 1.1.x.

Note: I've using Ubuntu 32bit so I've only tested the 32bit packages and I do not know if it works for 64bit (this is because the instructions in our previous SopCast post only seemed to work on 32bit).

The new Sopcast version however still has one of the bugs I was telling you about: "show controls" and fullscreen don't work. To fix this too, in the Preferences, on the "Player" tab, select "Use External Player" and under "Command" enter "vlc" (without the quotes).

Thanks to Roberto @ LFFL for the PPA!

Linux SopCast Player 0.4.1 Released - P2P Application For Watching TV Online [Ubuntu PPA With libstdc++5 Included]

SopCast Player is a Linux GUI front-end for the p2p streaming technology developed by SopCast. SopCast can play various TV channels online (watch football games, HBO, AXN Movie and so on) for free. Besides the default channel list, you can find many more (local or international) channels by simply searching Google.

Like we told you a while back, SopCast is probably the best way to watch the World Cup online under Linux - there are many channels and being a p2p streaming application, the connection usually doesn't goes down.

SopCast Player 0.4.1 has just been released, bringing a minor update to the user interface and deleted link handling in Firefox as well as other bug fixes.

The PPA has also been updated and it now includes lib32stdc++5 and libstdc++5, packages which up until now you had to manually download and install.

To install the latest SopCast Player 0.4.1 in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx only, simply paste this in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/extra && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sopcast-player sp-auth

And a reminder: SopCast Player requires VLC < 1.1.0 (so you must have VLC version lower than 1.1.0 installed before installing SopCast Player). You can use PPA Purge to remove VLC 1.1.0 installed from a PPA and go back to the default VLC 1.0.x from the official Ubuntu repositories - all automatically.

Also, don't rely on the default channels only. Search Google as you'll find a lot more channels!

Thanks to The Ubuntu News for the PPA!

Tivion 0.3 Released - Application To Watch Free TV Online In Linux

Tivion is a Linux application for watching TV online for free. Tivion 0.3 brings a total of 447 TV and Radio stations from 64 countries (Including Italy, USA, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Argentina, Poland, China, Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Thailand, Austria, Russia, Greece, Iran and so on). You can view the complete list of channels per country, HERE.

Other new features include option to save screenshots to a certain folder, on-the-fly interface language change as well as some new languages for the interface.

Tivion 0.3 is available for Ubuntu Jaunty, Ubuntu Karmic and the latest Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.

Download Tivion 0.3:

-Ubuntu Jaunty:

• tivion_0.0.3-0ubuntu1~jaunty_amd64.deb (122.6 KiB)
• tivion_0.0.3-0ubuntu1~jaunty_i386.deb (120.5 KiB)

-Ubuntu Karmic:

• tivion_0.0.3-0ubuntu1~karmic_amd64.deb (121.2 KiB)
• tivion_0.0.3-0ubuntu1~karmic_i386.deb (121.7 KiB)

-Ubuntu Lucid:

• tivion_0.0.3-0ubuntu1~lucid_amd64.deb (122.7 KiB)
• tivion_0.0.3-0ubuntu1~lucid_i386.deb (122.3 KiB)

The PPA is available HERE.

Tivion 0.3 Release announcement (Spanish).

Huge Collection Of TV Shows / Movies / Anime To Watch Online For Free

So you're somewhere with no TV access, Bittorrent ports blocked or just want to watch some TV shows or movies for free, with no hassle. If so, you'll love Videostic.

http://videostic.com is a website where you don't have to pay and there's even no registration required for watching TV shows such as American Dad, 24, CSI, Desperate Housewives, Doctor Who, Family Guy, Everybody Hates Chris, Friends, Futurama, Geek, Grey's Anatomy, Hannah Montana, House, Jericho, Lost, My Name Is Earl, Prison Break, Scrubs, South Park, Stargate Atlantis, The 4400, Top Gear or The Big Bang Theory, just to name a few. Yes, 'just to name a few', because the list is huge. Take a look for yourself.

But that's not all, there are also thousands of movies, Cartoons / Anime and Bollywood, for free also.

Fore other resources on watching movies / TV shows or online TV for free, look below:

Websites to Watch TV Online for Free
Free: Watch Thousands Of TV Channels On Your Computer [Windows, Linux and Mac OSX]
Application for Watching TV On-line For Free In Linux: Tivion

Application for Watching TV On-line For Free In Linux: Tivion

Tivion is a Linux application for watching TV on-line for free, which comes 78 channels from Spain, Argentina, United Kingdom and Russia.

Many TV channels are in TS, a video format used to store video on DVDs using MPEG video compression. This has it's advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that you will receive an HD (High Definition) signal quality and the disadvantage is that MPlayer will need a few extra seconds to convert it to MPEG and for caching. Therefore, if a TV channel doesn't start playing right away, don't think it's broken or that something is wrong, it just takes a while until the channel will start playing (5-30 seconds usually).

The TV channels included:
-UK: Eurosport 2, BCC 1, 2 etc., Channel 4 and 5, ITV 4, Film 4, Zone Horror, Sky News and many others
-Argentina: Arco Iris TV, Canal 11 and 13, Canal Luz Satelite
-Spain: TVE, CNN+, TV Canaria, Velevisa, Videncia, Fuego TV, Neox 8, Nova, 24 horas and others.

Installation

Tivion needs PyGTK 2.16 which is available in Ubuntu Karmic Koala, but if you use Jaunty, you will need to install it from Karmic repositories or compile it.

Once installed, you will find Tivion under Applications > Internet.

Download:

Ubuntu i386: tivion_0.0.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb

Ubuntu AMD64: tivion_0.0.2-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb

Source: tivion_0.0.2-0ubuntu2.tar.gz

Or add the PPA.

Other resources for watching online TV for free:
Websites to Watch TV Online for Free
Free: Watch Thousands Of TV Channels On Your Computer [Windows, Linux and Mac OSX]

Free: Watch Thousands Of TV Channels On Your Computer [Windows, Linux and Mac OSX]

Remember our list of websites where you could watch TV online for free? Well, here is a great application which works on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX which you can use to watch around 4000 TV channels online, for free!

Livestation application comes with a search so you can easily search for a TV station, either by name or by country, you can save TV stations and even a chat-room you can use to talk to people using Livestation.

Here's what you need to do to use Livestation on your PC and have full access to all the ~4000 free TV stations. Firstly, create a free account on livestation.com, then DOWNLOAD the application.

To install Livestation in Linux (I've tested it on Ubuntu), open a terminal, navigate to the folder where you downloaded the application and run the following commands:

chmod +x Livestation-2.7.0.run
./Livestation-2.7.0.run

(If you downloaded another version, simply change the file name in the commands above)

Then, to run it:

livestation

Upon running the application, you will be asked your username and password. Enter those and you are done!

Enjoy watching free TV!

[via ghabuntu]

Automatically Download New Episodes of Your Favourite TV Shows Using BitTorrent and ezRSS

ezRSS is a website designed to help you download your favourite TV shows by using a BitTorrent client. The thing I like about ezRSS is that it allows you to automatically download new episodes, as soon as they are available (known as broadcatching).

ezRSS comes from the folks at EZTV, probably the most popular TV torrent release group. Founded in the spring of 2005, EZTV was an attempt to fill the void left behind by several other TV-torrent sites when they were taken offline. In the years that followed, it grew to become the leading TV-torrent release group, with some of the more popular releases being downloaded up to two million times in just one week.

About a week ago, the site has returned with more features than ever before. Aside from getting the forums back online, EZTV now dedicates a full page to each released episode, with download statistics, a sample of the release and several download mirrors.

In addition to these episode pages, all the TV shows now have their own page as well as a user generated show rating, a description of the show and related news items and general information.

On top of the changes in the site’s functionality, EZTV has also switched to using the OpenBitTorrent tracker instead of those of The Pirate Bay. “That was a pretty easy decision,” Novaking told us. “With the current sale of TPB it would only be a matter of time before we couldn’t use it anyways, so we made the switch before that happened.

A guide for seting up ezRSS automatic download (using a BitTorrent client) of new TV shows episodes can be found HERE.

You might also be interested in TED (Torrent Episode Downloader).