DailyMotion Now Streaming Live News

An anonymous reader writes "Beet.TV reports that DailyMotion has begun streaming live news from Al Jazeera, BBC, and France 24 among others. They write, 'Paris-based DailyMotion, the world's second biggest online video site, has integrated with London-based live news portal Livestation to provide a number of live streaming television news networks including Al Jezeera, Bloomberg, the BBC, France 24, and sources from other nations as well as from oganizations including the United Nations and NASA.'"

Comments

Link

[tenZygzak]

http://www.dailymotion.pl/livestation

Re:strange story

[cpicon92]

I just tried it. HTML5 doesn't work with the live streaming (at least for the time being).

BBC Licensing

[stepdown]

Does anybody know if streaming BBC news in this manner requires you to have a license fee?

I think the position, at least on the BBC's own site, is that while you can play pre-recorded shows without one, a license is required to stream BBC programs live which was clarified with the release of smartphone apps.

Re:BBC Licensing

[Anonymous Coward]

"Without knowing the specifics of how it's being done, I'll point out is possible to receive BBC transmissions outside of the United Kingdom"

It's called Free To Air satellite TV, which includes all BBC channels, Five, most of the ITV and Channel4 channels (not all +1 variants and HDTV channels are FTA) and bunch of other crap on Astra 2 transponders.

Re:BBC Licensing

[camperslo]

The BBC provides service in many different languages and to many regions. Under pressure to cut costs, some cutbacks are planned. They want to hear from those affected to gauge impact.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12283356

Nope it's here.

[Anonymous Coward]

No, it's here. There's no need for signing up for anything.

A little summary of how things are now...

[Nrrqshrr]

Al Jazeera's and Al Arabia's main audiences are Arabic ones. And, only lately, did the average Abd El Mottalib discover that Facebook and Youtube could be used for something else other than shitty oriental\pop culture star stalking.
Only after the Tunisian revolution did Al Arabia (The second largest arabic news channel) start advertising their online live streaming news and Facebook insta-notifications (I don't really know when did Al Jazeera start doing that, never cared about that one).

Point is, Arabic news channels only discovered that the internets could be useful in brain washing after the recent events, the same day dictatorships discovered it. The fact that Dailymotion jumps in the bandwagon this late is rather... "Meh".

Re:A little summary of how things are now...

[mr100percent]

Al Jazeera has been broadcasting online for at least 3 years, when I started watching online. They do podcast some of their shows and have some pretty quality international reporters. Livestation.com is where they mainly stream from

Re:strange story

[mspohr]

It's a big deal to have Al Jazeera in the USA. Most cable systems don't carry it out of a kind of xenophobic fear of a "foreign" point of view.

What is new?

[Memroid]

I'm confused. Didn't Livestation already exist? What is DailyMotion bringing to the picture?

This Content is not Available

[iknowcss]

I've been dying to have access to BBC World streaming, but apparently being in the US prevents me from receiving European propaganda. Anyone know how I can watch this without getting the ever infuriating "this content is not available for your country"?

Re:This Content is not Available

[isorox]

I've been dying to have access to BBC World streaming, but apparently being in the US prevents me from receiving European propaganda.

BBC World is a commercial channel, its funding comes from advertising and distribution contracts in many regions. American cable companies pay the BBC to carry BBC World, streaming it to the public over the internet would hinder future negotiations.

Likewise, streaming the domestic BBC News channel would impact this, however has the additional problem that sometimes the domestic channel broadcasts things from wires that the BBC only has UK rights for.

Al Jazeera has been available in the US for YEARS

[Bob Cat - NYMPHS]

It's on the Internet, though, and I know most slashdotters don't use that much.

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Also on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish

The ./ editors must be getting kickbacks from that beat.tv blog and dailymotion to run such a lame story.

Dailymotion also good for soccer highlights

[ub3r n3u7r4l1st]

They are not subject to the DMCA. You can find large number of highlights from matches happened just a few hours ago, and a lot more if you been given the "hidden" link to the video.

Re:somewhat useless in America

[Compaqt]

Download the Livestation desktop app. There are more channels than just the ones shown on the website. Some NY/LA local channels, too.

Livestation's not at critical mass yet, but it's nice for some uses.

Re:Al Jazeera has been available in the US for YEA

[textstring]

Or the one-liner to watch AJE from the command-line:
rtmpdump -v -r rtmp://livestfslivefs.fplive.net/livestfslive-live/ -y "aljazeera_en_veryhigh?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId=" -W "http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/us1.24.04.08.2011-01-14072625/federatedVideoUI/BrightcovePlayer.swf -p "http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ -a "aljazeeraflashlive-live?videoId=747084146001&lineUpId=&pubId=665003303001&playerId=751182905001&affiliateId=" | mplayer -
Other 24/7 live RTMP streams here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/564760/