Al Jazeera Video

Rank 13 of 15 in Qatar. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

English is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Qatar uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

The stream is encoded at 6128 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Qatar. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

The stream is AACH264, which is unusual anywhere: Qatar's listing is dominated by AAC+. Formats outside the common three are typically a deliberate choice by a broadcaster who cares about the encoding chain, and they are also the ones most likely to give a browser trouble.

The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.