Tv-maxe is an interesting application that you can use to see TV on your computer using just the internet. Most of the TV channels are broadcasting for free but they all use the the sop protocol. In Fedora/Ubuntu this is not working out of the box. To install and watch TV you have to follow these steps:
make a folder in your home dir called tv-maxe
download and extract tv-maxe (http://code.google.com/p/tv-maxe/downloads/list)
download sopcast: http://download.sopcast.cn/download/sp-auth.tgz
install sopcast: tar xvfz sp-auth.tgz ; cd sp-auth;
make a simlink: sudo ln -s ~/tv-maxe/sp-auth/sp-sc-auth /usr/bin/ so that tv-maxe will find the sop driver ( this is a very important step, without it only a few TV channels will work )When all done you can open your tv-maxe app and start watching TV.
The most impressive thing about this app is the fact that it’s up to date and 99% of the channels are functional.
References
http://nngocchan.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/vlc-open-a-sopcast-stream-in-fedora/
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Tags: GUI, install, TV
Hi,
I have no idea how you got this to work. I followed your instructions which I think meant placing the sp-auth directory inside the tv-maxe directory which is what the sp-auth link to /usr/bin must mean.
I can start tv-maxe with ‘python tv-maxe.py’ but I get an error message window ‘unable to get channel lists-aborting’, so I have the tv-maxe gui working but with no channel list, so it’s useless.
Any ideas?