Watching Live-TV On Your Ubuntu Desktop With Zattoo
Posted by admin on May 15th, 2008 
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To watch live TV on your PC, simply download the Zattoo Player, register, and get channel-surfing! If you run into any problems, take a look at our FAQ section.
Where can I use Zattoo?
Zattoo is currently available in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. We’ll be launching in new countries and continents soon, so check back frequently.
Preparing for Installation
Before you can download the Zattoo player, you must register on the Zattoo web site . It’s possible that Zattoo isn’t available yet in your country - the Zattoo web site will tell you if this is the case.
Now you need to make sure you have install adobe flash player.If you want to install this in hardy use the following command
sudo aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree libflashsupport
Install Zattoo in Ubuntu
Now you need to download zattoo from here by clicking “Download Zattoo for Linux (.DEB)
Select Open with GDebi Package Installer (default) in Firefox and click ok
Now you need to click on Install Package
Downloading packages in progress
Zattoo Installation in progress
Zattoo Installation finished click close
Using Zattoo
start Zattoo from Applications > Sound & Video > Zattoo Player
If you’re using Zattoo for the first time, you must accept its license
After opening you can login using your login details or from here also you can create your new account.
After login you can see all the available channels and double click on your choice of channel to watch.
Some sample channels
Manage you Channels
If you want to manage your channels go to View—>Manage Channels
You can see the list of available channels
Program Details as follows
Zattoo Version Details
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May 15th, 2008 at 1:45 am
Unfortunately for 64-bit UBUNTU user’s there is no available Adobe Flash player. It comes in 32 bit only and it will not install on an Intel or AMD 64-bit version of UBUNTU.
Bwaaaahhhhh.,………
May 15th, 2008 at 3:33 am
“You seem to be accessing the Zattoo website from a country we do not yet serve. Please enter your country of residence below, and when our service is available there, we will contact you.”
Figures it’s not available in the U.S. and probably never will be.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:27 am
I can’t register
Can someone post here working login and password?
May 15th, 2008 at 8:50 am
The service is only probably legal. They are rebroadcasting without permission from at least some of the channels in the UK.
http://www.last100.com/2008/04/30/yay-legal-loophole-allows-zattoo-to-expand-uk-channel-lineup/
However, users are unlikely to get into trouble so I’m using it without worries.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:00 am
I am running a 64 bit version of Ubuntu and cannot install the deb package available. SO I though well I should be able to build the app using the tarball….the instructions are not really that useful for doing this!
Anyone done this yet? If so what steps did you take, i.e. depend packages to install, sym links to create etc…
Is it even possible on 64 bit?
May 15th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Can somebody post the full link please
May 15th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
If you live in France, you can get more channels with better quality with MyFreeTV if your ISP streams the channels.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Anyway to register/download/watch zattoo outside of the listed countries?
May 16th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Don’t bother downloading it if the website says not to, the application checks too. I hate closed source apps for this very reason.
May 18th, 2008 at 5:43 am
So it ain’t working in the states?
Guess it no use to sign the wait list…and if it is close source~
maybe we’ll find something “open”!!
I’ll be one my own ‘waiting’ list..Lol
May 18th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
It doesn’t quite work for me. Only sound, no video. Strange. It is also nagging about missing OpenGL/Mesa despite a running Nvidia Driver.
May 21st, 2008 at 7:31 pm
for 64 bit ubuntu you can force it to install using
sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture package.deb
then before you run it get the 32-bit libraries it requires using getlibs
getlibs /usr/bin/zattoo_player
(see this post about getlibs if you don’t have it already http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474790)
After that it should run fine.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:40 am
ubuntu hardy amd64 u.s.a.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Is there any workaround to be able to watch Zattoo from the United States? I will love to be able to watch tv from Spain.
Thanks in advance
Feluca
June 7th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I have literally spent about 6 hours today trying to figure out how to make this work on my kubuntu hardy heron 64bit linux. I couldn’t get it to work with wine, or by forcing the architecture so I installed a chroot for a 32bit environment and still didn’t work with the most recent version of the software (3.20). I downgraded by installing the 3.11 beta release from a previous comment above and used it in the chroot environment and… voila, it finally works after endless hours spent on searching for various errors that it was giving me. I’m running Kubuntu so I didn’t have a lot of the gtk packages it uses so had to download them.
try running the 3.11 release, that’s my best advice, if you can’t get it to work I’ll get back to you with how I’ve done it. I look forward to a 64bit version and I’m sure I’m not the only one…
June 10th, 2008 at 7:54 am
marku Says:
May 15th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Anyway to register/download/watch zattoo outside of the listed countries?
ade says: Zattoo checks your OS language and IP settings - So, for example if you want UK Zattoo content you need to appear to be in the UK first, THEN d/load the zattoo setup..
We can watch Zattoo UK content in Cyprus….. ! So I guess as long as you have the right settings you can watch the zattoo of your choice
US TV Content?.. hulu.com.. but you need to “appear” to be in Canada..
July 17th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
How do I “appear” to be in a listed country? Changing OS language is easy, but IP settings?
Thanks for any help.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Zattoo is a great way to watch normal television on the internet… It’s possible to watch fool zattoo! With a vpn server… There are free vpn servers like cyberghost but I didn’t find a free uk server.. Anybody a free uk vpn server… And no… with just a proxy it’s not possible…
August 11th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Hi all,
is there anything in this zatto, like gstreamer coded?
any one have any idea?
Regards,
Ashish Barot.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
It seems that Zattoo is not available in India
August 27th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
It sorta works for me on Ubuntu 8.04 64Bit using the getlibs method but sound will not work, I get picture fine.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:40 am
I found a strange way to get zattoo working under 64 bit hardy together with KDE.
First, i knew i was able to get it work on another 64 bit PC with GNOME, but when starting zattoo_player under KDE on my new laptop (64 bit hardy) it refuses to work, and in the zattoo errorlog there was an entry about the wrong ELF version for libqtengine.so.
As i said, i knew it worked on another system with gnome, so I installed the GNOME Desktop on my laptop and … it worked.
After switching back to KDE i didn’t expect zattoo to work here, but when trying zattoo_player …. it worked!!!!!!
So, if you have problems in getting it run under KDE (64 bit system) you might have to install the GNOME Desktop, run zattoo_player once under GNOME, switch back to KDE start zattoo_player.
It’s a strange world!!!!