pplive and sopcast in linux

[Dottout]

I used the resources in this thread to get sopcast up and running. All of the active gui's seem to use the qt libraries so I didn't bother with a GUI. There wasn't much out there in the way of a how-to once it was installed so I thought I'd post it here to save any new users some time...

Once the sp-sc is ready in your /usr/bin all you need is a sop:// url. Connect to the stream using the following commands:

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$ sp-sc [url] 3908 8908 >/dev/null &

This will return a processID. Next, open your favorite media viewer and open the following network stream:

http://127.0.0.1:8908

Enjoy the show. When you're done, don't forget to kill the process.

That's it.

read some posts above, gsopcast with given ebuild is a gtk gui

[gr0x0rd]

Haha yeah, the reason I didn't try your ebuild is because I'm a noob and haven't installed any 3rd party ebuilds before. Now that you've tempted me with it I had to try. Here's as far as I was able to get:

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PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/"

to make.conf

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=media-tv/sopcast-1.1.1
=media-tv/gsopcast-0.0.17g

to package.keywords

Created gsopcast-0.0.17g.ebuild and sopcast-1.1.1.ebuild from the info in this thread

Here is my /usr/local/portage/ directory structure

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media-tv
 gsopcast-svn
    gsopcast-0.0.17g.ebuild
 sopcast
    sopcast-1.1.1.ebuild

When I try to digest the build, here's what I get

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teletran3 gsopcast-svn # ebuild gsopcast-0.0.17g.ebuild digest
Appending /usr/local/portage to PORTDIR_OVERLAY...
!!! /usr/local/portage does not seem to have a valid PORTDIR structure.

I've looked through a few threads here and from what I've read this should be correct... any hints?

[gimpel]

Here is my /usr/local/portage/ directory structure

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media-tv
 gsopcast-svn
    gsopcast-0.0.17g.ebuild

gsopcast-svn != gsopcast

[gr0x0rd]

Awww, nuts. I was following the advice in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-579085.html . After making that change I was able to digest both packages

I changed

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DEPEND=">=media-tv/sp-sc-0.9.6

to

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DEPEND=">=media-tv/sopcast-1.1.1

in the gsopcast-0.0.17g.ebuild. I trust I was supposed to do this.

Emerged and up and running... thanks!

[JohnerH]

Has this changed recently?

I can't get the ebuild(s) to digest...

J

[carpman]

hello, i am getting the dir structure error too

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ebuild qsopcast-0.3.5.ebuild  digest
!!! /usr/local/portage/media-tv/gsopcast/qsopcast-0.3.5.ebuild does not seem to have a valid PORTDIR structure.

cheers

[pietia]

hej !
you can also try to use binary packages from arch:
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/archl ... y/os/i686/

[linuxtuxhellsinki]

hej !
you can also try to use binary packages from arch:
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/archl ... y/os/i686/

How I'm not familiar with those arch's pkgs.


And what about that new 3.0.1 version released 28.03-08 (ebuilds ?), the download links doesn't work for GUI stuff ?
http://www3.myp2p.eu/softwareitem.php?s ... t=software#

[pietia]

hi, just extract arch package to the root path "/"

In summary:
1) download sopcast linux version http://download.sopcast.cn/download/sp-auth.tgz
2) extract package
3) sudo mv sp-sc-auth /usr/bin/sopcast
4) download gui frontend from arch mirror http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/archl ... pkg.tar.gz
5) extract package to '/' path
6) enjoy

3.0.1 version works without any issues

[thewtex]

There is a sopcast and qsopcast build here
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181134

But you must change the default Channel URL to
http://www.sopcast.com/chlist.xml
In Config-->Config
and restart the app.

[lbalan79]

For future reference sopcast needs to be downloaded first and under media-tv/sopcast and then the ebuild of qsopcast works.


Still getting

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ebuild qsopcast-0.3.5.ebuild digest
Appending /usr/local to PORTDIR_OVERLAY...
!!! /usr/local/portage/media-tv/qsopcast-0.3.5.ebuild does not seem to have a valid PORTDIR structure.

Can someone please help and put a step by step tutorial on where to download those ebuild from the gentoo bug.

Thank you.

[thewtex]

Sounds like you are having general overlay problems. You may want to look at
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml

[rjw8703]

Can someone please help and put a step by step tutorial?

[Elleni]

I found and emerged gsopcast here:

layman -a gentoo-china
emerge gsopcast

works for me

[thom_raindog]

I found and emerged gsopcast here:

layman -a gentoo-china
emerge gsopcast

works for me

The overlay seems to not exist according to layman..

[sebaro]

SopCast client version 3.2.6
Build time: 2009-11-09 15:09
Change log:
--Improve the data transfering performance.
--H.264 support

Made an ebuild http://seblun.awardspace.us/gentoo/ (rename .source to .tar.gz).

[sebaro]

Found a sopcast script here: http://krischer.org/linux/special/sop
Modified a bit:

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#!/bin/bash
######################################################
# Startupscript for www.sopcast.com P2P Videostreams #
# Needs the sp-sc from Sopcast www.sopcast.com       #
#                                                    #
# Published under the terms of the GNU GPL License   #
######################################################
 
# Define some variables
 
# Which port to use
# default "8908"
LOCALPORT=8908
 
# Which Mediaplayer (vlc, mplayer, xine) (executable)
# default "vlc" / works best with x.264
MEDIAPLAYER=mplayer
 
# How long wait for buffer before we start the mediaplayer
# Time to Buffer depends on your connection and the channel
WAITTIME=10
 
#some more stuff
RED="\033[1;31m"
GREEN="\033[1;32m"
YELLOW="\033[1;33m"
BLUE="\033[1;34m"
RESET="\033[00m"
 
# set Channel from $1
CHANNEL=$1
 
# Which Brokerserver (broker, broker1, broker2)
# If given with sopcast-adress, this variable will be overwritten.
# default "broker"
BROKER=broker
 
#helper functions
HELP=$(echo -e "SOPCAST-Starter - the sopcast linux tool
calls the sopcast binary with complete parameterset
from your browser
 
\tUsage: $(basename $0) [channel] | [sopcast-url]\n")
 
#nice passivepopup for 3 seconds
user_info() {
                kdialog --passivepopup "$1" --title "SOPCAST-Starter" 3
}
 
#Help output
if [[ $1 = "-h" || $1 = "" ]]; then
        user_info "$HELP"
   exit 1
fi
 
# check if sop is called with complete sopcast address (like a browser would)
if [[ "$1" =~ "sop://" ]]; then
     # EXTRACT CHANNEL FROM ADDRESS
     CHANNEL=$(echo $1 | grep .sopcast.com:3912/ | awk -F ".sopcast.com:3912/" '{ print Buffer $2 }')
     # EXTRACT CALLED BROKERSERVER
     BROKER=$(echo $1 | grep .sopcast.com:3912/ | awk -F ".sopcast.com:3912/" '{ print Buffer $1 }' | awk -F "sop://" '{ print Buffer $2 }')
fi
 
#start sopcast now
start_sopcast() {
 
        # kill running instances first
        if [[ $(ps -A | grep sp-sc) != "" ]]; then
            killall -9 sp-sc >/dev/null
        fi
        # start sopcast in background, shrink the ouput to buffersize only (maybe use it later)
        sp-sc sop://$BROKER.sopcast.com:3912/$CHANNEL 3908 $LOCALPORT | grep nblockAvailable= |awk -F "nblockAvailable=" '{ print Buffer $2 }' | tr -s "\n" "\r BUFFER: " &
        kdialog --passivepopup "Sopcast started for channel $CHANNEL " --title "SOPCAST-Starter" 5
        # wait for buffer to grow....
        sleep $WAITTIME
        #fire up mediaplayer
        user_info "$MEDIAPLAYER ready to start..."
        $MEDIAPLAYER http://localhost:$LOCALPORT/tv.asf >/dev/null
        # if mediaplayer ends, check if sopcast runs
        if [[ $(ps -A | grep sp-sc) != "" ]]; then
            kdialog --yesno "Your Mediaplayer was terminated, do you want to re-run it (YES) or do you want to kill the sopcast process (NO)" --title "SOPCAST-Starter"
            if [[ $? = "1" ]]; then
                killall -9 sp-sc >/dev/null
            elif [[ $? = "0" ]]; then
                $MEDIAPLAYER http://localhost:$LOCALPORT/tv.asf >/dev/null
            fi
        fi
}
 
start_sopcast
#set Prompt to white again (change if your using black on white)
echo -e "$RESET"

And the sop protocol for KDE:

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[Protocol]
exec=path_to_sopcast_bash_script "%u"
protocol=sop
input=none
output=none
helper=true
listing=false
reading=false
writing=false
makedir=false
deleting=false
Icon=""

save it as /home/.kde4/share/kde4/services/sop.protocol.
It doesn't work with IP sopcast links.