One of sources for China’s netizen entertainment is watching online video streaming. PPStream as one of the largest online video streaming software, all the while only provide streaming for Windows. Finally, there is Linux version. It is for Ubuntu, but you can get it working on other Linux distros as well. You can download it from http://dl.pps.tv/

One of the common errors, even after following the instruction on PPS.tv web page, is that you can’t access the playlist unless you have the administrative rights.

You need to change from

 

./mplayer -playlist playlist.txt

to

 

sudo ./mplayer -playlist playlist.txt

Another more simple method is installing the 4 DEB package into your Totem player.

• totem-pps_0.0.17.13-1_i386.deb [69Kib]
• gst-plugins-pps_0.0.17.15-1_i386.deb [33.63 KiB]
• libppswrapper_0.0.17.9-1_i386.deb [78.91 KiB]
• libpps_0.1.826_i386.deb

Source: forum.ubuntu.org.cn