See: http://www.livestation.com/downloads/ We decided to open the back door of our lab to give you early access to what we are working on. If that sounds like your kind of thing, then here's the deal. We give you the (sometimes very!) early new stuff we are working on before we make it available to everyone. You can use it, discuss it here, try to break it and help us shape the features in the product. All we ask in return is that you actively participate either here, or via any survey/email we might send you and you accept that it might be a bit (or a lot) buggy. That's all. <b>What do I do next?</b> 1. We've created a new page here: http://www.livestation.com/downloads/ Here you'll find the different builds & development versions as we release them. Please note that you've got to be logged in to access it. 2. Click on the development version to accept the conditions and download the installer. 3. Download, install, use, enjoy. 4. Post about it here, when step 3 is good, and when step 3 is bad. We want to know all of it. If we don't, we can't fix it. <b>What builds are there?</b> Windows only for now. The eagle eyed amongst you will have spotted the place for the Mac and Linux builds... <b>So what's the story with the version numbers?</b> Any ODD numbered build (e.g. 75.1) is a stable, official release. Any EVEN numbered build (e.g. 76.5) is a development release. That's the deal. Enjoy and thanks for any help you'll be able to give us! The Dev Team 2008-06-18T13:27:20Z 0 2008-06-18T20:49:39Z 15 0 648 88.96.176.182 0 false 12 10 648 0 true 2009-11-07T12:47:43Z 12 1538 Hi I see your software and it is very nice. I most like their carousel control. I hope it has developed with WPF and i want to get help developing a such a control. Your corperation is appreciated! 2009-06-30T07:22:33Z 0 15 0 4908 80.227.102.50 0 false 15 4 4908 0 false 2009-11-07T14:47:33Z 876053 320 Hi, I managed to install and run the application successfully but after 3 days whenever I start the application it crashes and says not responding whenever its initiated/started, I use win vista 32 bit ultimate. Can you please assist me on this? 2009-01-13T10:48:02Z 0 15 0 3426 121.98.136.33 0 false 5 32 3426 0 false 2009-11-07T12:44:19Z 521213 765 your livestation software does'nt work it slows my machine way down i've got windows xp pro your software sucks i deleted it, other then that i like the site 2008-12-04T10:42:55Z 0 15 0 2821 75.72.190.248 0 false 13 4 2821 0 false 2009-11-07T12:40:54Z 460911 861 We've released a development build 1.0.76.10 for those keen to try it out. Available for download at http://www.livestation.com/downloads/. Changes include: improvement to user channel support, hints and tips and other bug fixes. Please let us know if you have any issues with this build, as it will help us to continue improving the player for everyone to use. Thanks and enjoy! Hong 2008-06-27T10:48:07Z 0 15 0 710 88.96.176.174 0 false 13 20 710 0 false 2009-11-07T14:08:35Z 70 1763 I'm pleased to make available the first development build from the Livestation labs. The quick read: 1.Login. 2.Download: http://www.livestation.com/downloads/ 3. Search bookmarks: http://www.livestation.com/account/streams/search 4. Add/View your bookmarks: http://www.livestation.com/account/streams/ The longer read: This has a couple of new features that you asked for and we liked quite a bit. <h3>Main new features:</h3> Personalise your player with your own channels(stream bookmarks). Bookmark them, tag them, search for them watch them in Livestation. twitter. Twitter integration: (http://www.twitter.com) <h3>New functionality in the client</h3> <b>Personalise the player by bookmarking and watching your favourite channels/streams</b> Under the Channels menu you will now find a My Channels group. From here you can select "Add/Remove Channels" to access an area of our site under your profile (My Livestation) where you will be able to bookmark your favourite streams. Whether it's a live webcam or a stream available from your favourite website you can now easily access it and watch it in Livestation player . Add/Remove /Search is done via the website. You bookmark your favourite streams - so that you can have them stored against your profile for easy access also on other computers running the Livestation client - and to search other streams added by other Livestation users. "Refresh Channels" from the same menu will update the list of your channels on the client after you have bookmarked them on the site. (If you don't choose this option, it will take up to 15 minutes for the LIvestation player to update the list under My Channels. Yes we know we have to fix that broken behaviour). You can then select your channels/streams from the list under My Channels at any time. Your channels will also be shown in the overlay alongside our partner broadcast news channels if you use the up/down arrow or the mouse wheel to scroll through the channel list. <b>Twitter</b> The "Configure twitter" menu item allows you to set up the login to your twitter account. The Auto twitter checkbox tweets when you change channel if selected and posts a message to your Twitter profile on the lines of "John is watching Panorama on BBC World News on Livestation since x minutes ago". "Tweet" brings up a small dialogue on screen that allows you to post a quick message to your Twitter profile without having to log in, visit the site, etc. A little balloon in the system tray will confirm a successful post. <h3>New Web functionality </h3> Go here: http://www.livestation.com/account/streams/ or you can simply select Add/Remove Channel from the menu on the player under My Channels to access this new feature. On this page you can create a new "stream bookmark" by typing or pasting the address of the stream (URI) and by adding a name for this bookmark. Tag - you can tag the channels you've added, or channels others have added through the website. This is useful to help discovering other channels (we have a tag cloud box on the right hand side of the page). We have also put a link on the same side of the page to allow to list all of the channels that your fellow Livestation viewers have added. We have also put a search box that will become useful when the number of channels will get bigger. Preview - the preview button allows you to preview a channel on its own preview page. Add / Remove - add or remove a channel from your list from the search or preview pages. <h3>Known Issues:</h3> - buggy under low bandwidth conditions. The client can freeze if there is not enough bandwidth. Silverlight will sometimes fail if end of stream is reached, or if stream quality is poor. - Silverlight supported codecs only - so Windows media video and audio streams (mms) only. - channel list update is slow. We've added a "refresh my channels" menu to work around this. - No HD support. SD format is ok. Silverlight is not hardware accelerated yet, so high bandwidth (e.g. 2 Mbps+) live video streams will require a beefy CPU. - Navigation - we've not finished the navigation yet! So if you want to add 100 streams, then the client usability is not great. We've got plenty of ideas and know we have more work to do on this. - Web based preview gives Silverlight errors on some streams. - Add/remove/tag/search - all should be available via the client. - User channels can take a long time to start. Our video has a small gap between key frames. Video with longer gaps takes much longer to play back. Enjoy and tell us what you think! And yes, we know, it's buggy! The Dev Team 2008-06-18T13:34:54Z 0 2008-06-20T14:46:25Z 15 0 649 88.96.176.182 0 false 12 52 649 0 false 2009-11-07T09:59:09Z 12 5210