With livestreamer you can watch source quality twitch streams without lag on your vlc player.
I been watching it like this for a long time because I refuse to install flash player on my computer.

Just type in cmd > livestreamer - twitch url - source (without the - obviously).

Yurie

12084 Posts

November 05 2013 19:01 GMT

#122

On November 06 2013 03:15 Technique wrote:
With livestreamer you can watch source quality twitch streams without lag on your vlc player.
I been watching it like this for a long time because I refuse to install flash player on my computer.

Just type in cmd > livestreamer - twitch url - source (without the - obviously).

'livestreamer' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

So the instruction is incomplete. I assume it should start at install VLC, install... go to certain place on computer in cmd...

Rimstalker

Germany734 Posts

November 05 2013 19:03 GMT

#123

soooo happy to have this! Couldn't watch half the streams even in medium quality, now high is smooth.

Yurie

12084 Posts

November 05 2013 19:13 GMT

#124

This doesn't work for me any longer. Worked great the first day. Since then I can't load any streams at all with it enabled.

The same streams work (with normal lag) after disabling this extension.

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Ads still work just fine.

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Tried it using both built in flash player and adobe flash player, disabling them separately.

Any suggestions?

shaaw

Spain97 Posts

November 05 2013 19:17 GMT

#125

On November 06 2013 04:13 Yurie wrote:
This doesn't work for me any longer. Worked great the first day. Since then I can't load any streams at all with it enabled.

The same streams work (with normal lag) after disabling this extension.

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Ads still work just fine.

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Tried it using both built in flash player and adobe flash player, disabling them separately.

Any suggestions?

I have the same problem as you, 20 minutes ago it was working fine, now it doesnt load

Sometimes it loads, but not longer with the quality information and with lag (i guess it conected with eu servers).

Zandar

Netherlands1541 Posts

November 05 2013 19:21 GMT

#126

Doesn't work anymore

Got my old lag back. And indeed, now you mention it, ads are lag free, always have been actually.

It worked so great until now.
My guess is twitch doesn't want all those Europeans using the wrong server and did something to prevent it and kicked us back to our laggy servers?

Yurie

12084 Posts

November 05 2013 19:22 GMT

#127

Looks like this in proxy program, only the IP changes. It gives up after like 2-3 tries more than in the screenshot.

Edit, removed my windows username from picture.

MetricYAO

United Kingdom69 Posts

November 05 2013 19:29 GMT

#128

With the partnered streams where this doesn't work, it doesn't seem to be based on location. I have watched a lot of EU streams where this works. It just seems like WCS, Dreamleague and maybe a few other don't work.

reki-

Netherlands327 Posts

November 05 2013 19:52 GMT

#129

It doesn't seem to help at all atm with the nani/revival match =(

Thanks for the effort though

Haedley

Germany28 Posts

November 05 2013 19:59 GMT

#130

Huge lag for me, too. Does not matter if I use this in Chrome or Firefox. It even seems worse than in Firefox.

jonii

1 Post

November 05 2013 22:14 GMT

#131

it works! but I'm so used to watch streams in vlc using livestreamer.. is there a way to apply this in there?

emucxg

Finland4559 Posts

November 05 2013 22:26 GMT

#132

this application has fixed the 1080p lag for me, (Below 720p never lagged for me)

Location: Finland
ISP: DNA Finland
Network: 350Mbps/20Mbps

Thanks R1CH, now I can disable my USA proxy to watch 1080p

anessie

180 Posts

November 05 2013 23:00 GMT

#133

On November 06 2013 04:01 Yurie wrote:

Show nested quote +

Best to install it first

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1osp4m/lagging_on_twitchtv_watch_wcs_on_vlc_player/

Watched Nani-Revival with zero lag earlier with this .bat

@echo

cd c:\program files (x86)\livestreamer

livestreamer twitch.tv/wcs best

@echo off

Test it with a channel name that is online of course.

R1CH

Netherlands10342 Posts

November 05 2013 23:50 GMT

#134

On November 06 2013 04:29 MetricYAO wrote:
With the partnered streams where this doesn't work, it doesn't seem to be based on location. I have watched a lot of EU streams where this works. It just seems like WCS, Dreamleague and maybe a few other don't work.

Yeah it's very weird. Newly created channels even when partnered seem to have region-locked tokens, that's the only kind of pattern I've seen.

Redox

Germany24794 Posts

November 05 2013 23:52 GMT

#135

Insane how well this works. I could never watch Twitch streams on "source" (1080p), and I knew it was not due to limited bandwidth on my part. Non-partnered streams have no quality options and mostly stream this quality by default, so I could basically never watch any non-partnered streams. Now it all works without any problems.

I will love you forever!

I use it on Firefox btw.

edit: Nvm just found it doesnt work with non-partnered streams. Still great though.

Bizeheryer

Germany307 Posts

November 06 2013 06:23 GMT

#136

Hope i can watch the Global Finals without lag now. Thanks. =)

AsnSensation

Germany24009 Posts

November 06 2013 08:09 GMT

#137

First of all, thanks a lot R1CH this is amazing and has allowed me to watch 3 streams on "source" during eu primetime although I couldn't even watch 1 stream in high lagfree without it.

Is there a way to get an icon on the topright extension bar to manually enable/disable it for when i need it? Because it fucks with my other proxies (proxmate, hola unblocker) which I use to watch things like youtube, netflix etc which are blocked in good ol germany.