TV-Maxe is an application that you can use to watch TV stations online, through a P2P technology called SopCast. It comes with two TV channel lists by default: one international and one Romanian, but more unofficial lists are available on its wiki (for France, Hungary, United Kingdom, Danmark, Spain, Russia and Ukraine).






TV-Maxe 0.07 has been released recently, bringing some important changes both under-the-hood as well as to the end users:

HTTP remote control: TV Maxe already had support for remote control via infrared, but the latest version also comes with HTTP remote control so all you need is a mobile phone or tabled with a working network connection to change TV channels, play/stop TV maxe and change or mute the volume.


Gstreamer support which is more stable than the Mplayer or the VLC backends

Separation of protocol engines and multimedia backends

Faster startup

Support for streams with multiple audio tracks

Added support for multiple Sopcast sources for the same channel

Channel list filtering

Deleted channels management

Extended support for RTMP streams




Install TV-Maxe (SopCast Player) in Ubuntu



To install the latest TV-Maxe in Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10, 11.04, 10.10 or 10.04, use the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:venerix/blug
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tv-maxe



For .rpm and source files, see the TV-Maxe downloads page.