Install Sopcast in 64-bits

Question

I'm a new user of Ubuntu and I'm finding a lot of difficulties installing Sopcat

I used the following code:

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

After the last command, I had the following answer

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
sopcast-player : Depends: sp-auth (>= 3.0.1) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I googled the problem and I found out that I have to install the package sp-auth_3.2.6.1~lffl~natty~ppa_i386.deb on https://launchpad.net/~ferramroberto/+archive/sopcast/+build/2405344

But when I try to install it appears in my software center "wrong architechture 'i386' "

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I had the same problem installing Sopcast at first, lots of tutorials in internet were just waste of time. The main problem was, the link was broken in Ubuntu forum and launchpad gives 404 error while clicking the page. I went to the femroberto page but there was no download link for 64bit package. There was a bug filed in launchpad about sp-auth installation, and no download link available for amd64 architecture. So, what I did to install was:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/sopcast (To add the repository)
• Downloaded the sp-auth package from this website http://www.n00bsonubuntu.net/content/how-to-install-sopcast-on-ubuntu-13-04/
• Installed the sp-auth package first using gdebi package installer. You can right click and use ubuntu software centre too.
• From Terminal: sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install sopcast-player
• Finally for Firefox to recognise the sop:// link (Though not important for latest firefox)
  • In Firefox address bar, type about:config and Enter the config
  • Search for network.protocol-handler.expose-all and try by changing the value to true or false. In my case it worked with true.

Now I am using sop-cast player

Answer 2

Sadly, the PPA won't work for Raring (13.04) and up. You need the command line version instead. For 64-bits you need to install first the libstdc++5:i386 package:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5:i386

Download the binary and untar it:

wget http://download.easetuner.com/download/sp-auth.tgz
tar xf sp-auth.tgz
cd sp-auth

Now you can run it just using:

> ./sp-sc-auth    
SC Version: 3.2.6  Build time: 2009-11-09 15:09
Usage:
./sp-sc [-TpI] [-b ipaddr] [-u username:password] [-n out:total] <sop://url> <localport> <playerport>

If you get a message like this, you didn't installed the libstdc++5:i386 library at the start:

./sp-sc-auth
zsh: no such file or directory: ./sp-sc-auth

To use the program I recommend the use of this helper.

A simple example of sp-sc-auth command line (see README file from inside of sp-auth directory):

./sp-sc-auth sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/148248 3908 8908  > /dev/null &

will start to transfer National Geographic channel, and you can play it on the port 8908 with VLC or mplayer for example by open the url:

http://localhost:8908/tv.asf