How to watch the World Cup matches live on our Ubuntu?

P2PTV is a technique for the transmission and broadcasting in real time of audiovisual content (videos, TV, etc) through the Internet network using the architecture of the systems P2P, where individual nodes connect to other nodes to receive the streams video and audio, instead of using a server central, as in IP-based television (IPTV).

What do I need to see the selection?

Well, first of all, what you have to do is go to a page where live broadcasts are listed. One of the most popular is reddirecta.orgThe main box of the page lists the most important games of the day. I recommend that, to begin to familiarize yourself with the subject, you click on some of them to see the options that open. Quickly, you will realize that each game is available in different versions. In other words, there are games in which the P2P column says "NO" and others in which it says "P2P." This means that those in which it says "NO" can be viewed via flash, mms (This can be seen with Totem just by clicking on that link), etc.

In this article, what I want to explain to you is how to see those that do say "P2P". You are going to see that in the "Type" column they have different values: some say "SopCast", others "Veetle", and so on. These are the different systems for viewing p2ptv. In this case, I chose one of the most popular: SopCast.

The first thing to do, then, is download a SopCast client and install it. This is super easy in Ubuntu.

First, we add the PPA correspondent:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: jason-scheunemann / ppa

Then we update:

sudo apt-get update

Before installing the program, you must install the sp-auth package, which you can download from here.. Finally, we install the Sopcast Player.

sudo apt-get install sopcast-player

If you use Fedora, you can download the RPM from here..

Once the program is installed, we can access it by going to: Applications> Audio & Video> Sopcast Player. However, it will not be necessary to open it that way. From now on, when we click with the internet browser on a sopcast link, the program will automatically open and play the video.

So let's reddirecta.org, we look for a game that is currently streaming and see if you have the option to watch it via sopcast. If you have this option, we click on the link, we tell Firefox to open it with the Sopcast Player and we wait a while for the program to do the necessary buffering.

Here are two last recommendations to keep in mind: once you open the video with the sopcast-player and it begins to play, the video may look a bit bad at first. It takes a while until it reaches a decent buffering (+ 90%) so it doesn't get stuck all the time or all look pixelated. So, a little bit of patience that after the first 30-60 seconds they look good. The second recommendation is the following: look for games that are currently playing (live): If it is 3 in the afternoon and you want to see a game that aired in the morning, it will not work. This is only for watching games in real time (live).

Finally, call their attention to the following truth: sopcast does not replace other methods to watch tv online (flash, mms, etc.). If a game is available in mms, then use mms. If you can see through flash, use flash. This is just another alternative to expand your range of possibilities.

Remember this post, as it will be especially useful to watch the World Cup matches when the justin.tv (flash) videos don't work.