It works fine on ATI so long as no other OpenGL overlay is active. There’s been complexity from the number of distributions out there… but then for Windows we have to support XP and Vista, and for Mac we support Tiger, Leopard, Intel and Power PC Macs… so it’s not just Linux that gives a high number of desktops environments to support.ĭisable Compiz/Beryl on ATI graphics cards to avoid flickering and overlay issues The plan is to keep feature parity among all three platforms. Mac OSX is based on Free BSD, so if you support that… you’re half way there.īesides, as an engineering team we get a warm fuzzy glow from launching Linux at the same time as the others □ (and a bunch of the team couldn’t watch Livestation unless we did a Linux release). We use a mixture of Linux, Mac and Windows at work on both desktop and server. Great to see a Linux review of our product… and why shouldn’t we do one? (don’t mind the gray bar, that’s because of the screenshot, it isn’t actually there when running) Some screenshots from the app when it’s running: Launch it from “applications -> system tools -> compiz fusion icon” and set your Windows Manager to “Metacity”. I suggest you go to “applications -> add/remove” and install the “compiz fusion icon”. The interface is a bit glitchy when you are running Compiz Fusion. Go to “system -> preferences -> main menu”.Īdd a new entry under “internet” or “sound & video” for livestation. You could launch it using “livestation &” in a terminal or just “livestation” in the “alt+f2” launcher. The app didn’t get added to the applications menu for me. The image quality is good enough to watch a program or your favorite TV shows, a football match or any other event. Installation should only take a few seconds. Live Station is an online TV and Radio player that allows you to access and view thousands of TV channels and radio stations from all over the world. Then when prompted, press “y” a few times and enter your password when it asks you for it. Press “q” on your keyboard to skip the readme. Right-click the installer, go to properties, in the permissions tab, select the “allow executing file as program” box.ĭouble-click the installer and select “run in terminal”. It seems more and more people are starting to realize we are out there.īrowse to the site and download the linux installer. Al Arabiya, as do all our partner channels, will now benefit from this audience information enabling them to target and develop their service in response to actual viewer behaviour patterns,” he said.Livestation is a app that will allow you to watch major tv channels (mostly news channels) from around the world from your desktop. It is a new and exciting phenomenon and the detailed user statistics are helping us map viewer behaviour in ways that have previously not been available to broadcasters. “Viewers are also using the live, real-time chat associated with each channel as they channel hop and channel chat at the same time. However, when a big story breaks, they tend to exercise the choice Livestation offers by clicking through to adjacent channels on the player”, according to Berlucchi. They are loyal to their favoured news provider, returning to the channel several times a day and, on average, spending half an hour with their preferred news offering each visit. “We have found, when we analyse the viewing patterns on the Livestation player, that the broadband audience is both loyal and fickle. He said he was delighted to have reached agreement with the channel. The channel has joined Livestation’s existing line-up of Arabic news channels which already included services offered by Al Jazeera, BBC, France 24, Russia Today (Rusya Al Yaum) and Euronews.Īccording to Matteo Berlucchi, the CEO of Livestation, the addition of Al Arabiya as an official Livestation partner channel is part of an ongoing strategy to widen the choice of perspectives offered on the player. The 24-hour news channel Al Arabiya from Dubai has joined Livestation, a destination portal for live TV broadcasting over broadband.Īl Arabiya offers a mix of breaking news, current, documentaries and sports updates.
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