Livestation is a platform for distributing live television and radio broadcasts over a peer-to-peer data network. It is being developed by Skinkers Ltd. based on peer-to-peer technology acquired from Microsoft Research.
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Livestation is a platform for distributing live television and radio broadcasts over a peer-to-peer data network. It is being developed by Skinkers Ltd. based on peer-to-peer technology acquired from Microsoft Research.
Overview
Livestation broadcast streams encoded in VC-1 format, received over a peer-to-peer overlay network. Playback controls are overlaid on top of the video stream. Unlike services such as Joost which offer video on demand channels, Livestation streams live broadcasts. Livestation splits a video stream into multiple stripes, each of which are shared independently among peers.
Current live TV news channels in the global offering (which comes with a default installation) are limited to France24 in English and French, Al Arabiya in Arabic, Al Jazeera in English and Arabic, Bloomberg Television, C-SPAN, Deutsche Welle TV and radio, Democratic Voice of Burma, Euronews in English, French and Arabic(Italian, German, Russian, and Spanish are no longer supported ) Russia Today in English and Arabic, BBC World News, BBC World Service Radio, BBC Arabic, ITN and CNN-IBN (temporary partner). Otherwise, reception is limited through GeoIP filtering, and depends on the location of the receiver . Despite advertisement boasting BBC World News or Deutsche Welle TV, these are not available in some locations, including but not limited to the United States . Livestation viewers can add channels from a directory, and may add their own choice of channels to the directory (limited to Windows Media streams).
The software is currently available in an open beta for Windows, Mac and Linux. The cross-platform compatibility is facilitated by the Qt framework. Social networking features have been added that include the ability to chat with other viewers and also find out what others are watching through a user generated rating system. The system can also be ported to Windows Mobile once a port of Silverlight is made available on that platform.
See also
- IPTV
- Internet Television
- Jaman
- Joost
- Miro (software)
- Babelgum
- Boxee
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