New App: SopCast Player for Ubuntu

[flyguy97]

Hello all,

I created a new SopCast front-end and would love it if people would help test it out a bit. It features a built-in player and a channel guide with the ability to bookmark favorite channels. Currently the only available language is English, but I'm working with a few people to try and bring support for Japanese and Chinese as well. Let me know what needs improvement, and please, be honest.

http://code.google.com/p/sopcast-player

btw. Be sure to read the Installation notes on the website before you install, due to the GPL I am unable to include the SopCast client program in the package.

flyguy97

[dafoo21]

Works great for me! Thats really good timing to post this too!

[flyguy97]

Works great for me! Thats really good timing to post this too!

I'm glad it installed ok. Any feedback about the player?

[ranjandatta]

On Jaunty i get this error

The program 'sopcast-player.py' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 7552 error_code 170 request_code 152 minor_code 7)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
ranjan@media-workhorse:~$ python: ../../src/xcb_io.c:182: process_responses: Assertion `((int) (((dpy->last_request_read)) - ((dpy->request))) <= 0)' failed.

Running it with --sync

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sopcast-player.py", line 744, in on_channel_treeview_row_activated
    self.parent.play_channel(self.selection[9], self.selection[1])
  File "/usr/bin/sopcast-player.py", line 394, in play_channel
    self.fork_sop.fork_sop(self.channel_url, str(self.inbound_port), str(self.outbound_port))
  File "/usr/share/sopcast-player/lib/fork.py", line 42, in fork_sop
    os.execlp("sp-sc", "sp-sc", self.sop_address, self.inbound_port, self.outbound_port)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 337, in execlp
    execvp(file, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 354, in execvp
    _execvpe(file, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 390, in _execvpe
    func(fullname, *argrest)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
sopcast-player.py: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
sopcast-player.py: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.

[flyguy97]

***Update*** I was able to reproduce the bug in Intrepid. A fix has been found and will be incorporated into the next release which will hopefully be out by Jan 12.

Thank you for your reply, I will look into this. I believe it is a problem with the way I fork my process. I will post an updated binary this weekend if I am able to track it down by then. Does this affect playback? Did it terminate the program? What were you doing when the error showed up? An issue has been logged on my project page. Progress of this and all bugs can be monitored at the project issues page http://code.google.com/p/sopcast-player/issues/list. Thank you again for you post.

Jason

On Jaunty i get this error

The program 'sopcast-player.py' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 7552 error_code 170 request_code 152 minor_code 7)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
ranjan@media-workhorse:~$ python: ../../src/xcb_io.c:182: process_responses: Assertion `((int) (((dpy->last_request_read)) - ((dpy->request))) <= 0)' failed.

Running it with --sync

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sopcast-player.py", line 744, in on_channel_treeview_row_activated
    self.parent.play_channel(self.selection[9], self.selection[1])
  File "/usr/bin/sopcast-player.py", line 394, in play_channel
    self.fork_sop.fork_sop(self.channel_url, str(self.inbound_port), str(self.outbound_port))
  File "/usr/share/sopcast-player/lib/fork.py", line 42, in fork_sop
    os.execlp("sp-sc", "sp-sc", self.sop_address, self.inbound_port, self.outbound_port)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 337, in execlp
    execvp(file, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 354, in execvp
    _execvpe(file, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 390, in _execvpe
    func(fullname, *argrest)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
sopcast-player.py: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
sopcast-player.py: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.

[pt123]

the problem with the old sopcast player for linux was that you couldn't enter a sopcast URL into it, can this let you do that?

[flyguy97]

Yes, just enter into the channel bar at the bottom and hit enter or press play. Make sure just to enter the channel address, no port information or anything like that. Also be sure to checkout the bookmark feature, saves from having to remember the sop address.

Jason

the problem with the old sopcast player for linux was that you couldn't enter a sopcast URL into it, can this let you do that?

[16777216]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sopcast-player.py", line 39, in <module>
    import vlc
ImportError: libvlc.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have VLC 0.9.4 Grishenko according to VLC's about or, 0.9.4-1ubuntu3 according to synaptic.
I am running Intrepid

[hotweiss]

Works perfectly. Thanks.

PS-Is there website that lists other channels?

[jjgomera]

great

Im trying to install deb from google.code, y use hardy and "dependency is not satisfaciable"
in hardy there is 0.8.6, in deb: >=0.9.4

If i try to remake deb, i can install but:

jjgomera@ordenata:~$ sopcast-player.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sopcast-player.py", line 39, in <module>
    import vlc
ImportError: libvlc.so.2: no se puede abrír el archivo de objeto compartido: No existe el fichero ó directorio

jjgomera@ordenata:~$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libvlc.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libvlc.so.2

jjgomera@ordenata:~$ sopcast-player.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sopcast-player.py", line 39, in <module>
    import vlc
ImportError: /usr/share/sopcast-player/lib/vlc.so: undefined symbol: libvlc_media_player_has_vout

or really is necesary this vlc version?