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Gaitsaa
Profile Joined April 2017
United States15 Posts
June 01 2017 05:48 GMT
#261
On May 31 2017 22:59 Grettin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 31 2017 18:50 Gaitsaa wrote:
Well nevermind Should have followed through with regcleaner and clearing cygwin before posting as it appears that was the issue and I'm running streams using the nightly build.

Thanks for the help anyways


Care to explain what you did completely? Still having the same issue as you did.


Deleted all streamlink downloads, content, vlc, python, uninstalled, used regcleaner too delete registry information on cygwin a program that adds GNU capability to windows. After deleting cygwin I reinstalled using the nightly installer, and from there I launched and didn't have any issues.

I can run cmd prompt now and it properly displays streamlink and it being used by the python.py script, and I don't have missing urllib3.

Basically I'm assuming anything you've done on windows that's involved cmd, pathing or python is getting in the way so uninstall, use regcleaner on any programs that have and try again.

If you've done nothing to modify windows or cmd, then try too follow github and import urllib3. I never got too this but download the master urllib3 from github, and place just the urllib3 folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Streamlink\pkgs\requests\packages

See if that works and that python caches in that folder and the scripts sync with streamlink and the bat.

Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42381 Posts
June 01 2017 15:22 GMT
#262
On June 01 2017 14:48 Gaitsaa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 31 2017 22:59 Grettin wrote:
On May 31 2017 18:50 Gaitsaa wrote:
Well nevermind Should have followed through with regcleaner and clearing cygwin before posting as it appears that was the issue and I'm running streams using the nightly build.

Thanks for the help anyways


Care to explain what you did completely? Still having the same issue as you did.


Deleted all streamlink downloads, content, vlc, python, uninstalled, used regcleaner too delete registry information on cygwin a program that adds GNU capability to windows. After deleting cygwin I reinstalled using the nightly installer, and from there I launched and didn't have any issues.

I can run cmd prompt now and it properly displays streamlink and it being used by the python.py script, and I don't have missing urllib3.

Basically I'm assuming anything you've done on windows that's involved cmd, pathing or python is getting in the way so uninstall, use regcleaner on any programs that have and try again.

If you've done nothing to modify windows or cmd, then try too follow github and import urllib3. I never got too this but download the master urllib3 from github, and place just the urllib3 folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Streamlink\pkgs\requests\packages

See if that works and that python caches in that folder and the scripts sync with streamlink and the bat.



Tried all but nope.


Although from Github:

urllib3 will be covered too, but there is no installer available that includes it yet. The nightly version is still built without the required modules. The urllib3 error is new in the last day or so from an updated version of requests. You'll have to wait until the fix is merged and the new nightly is available, or build the installer yourself on a Linux/macOS box.
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
letian
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany4221 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-01 15:37:48
June 01 2017 15:34 GMT
#263
Guys, you do not need cygwin at all. Open up windows cmd and install urllib3 via pip install urllib3. If you have python3.5 installed on windows you'll have pip as part of its package as well. Python package manager pip will be available from windows cmd. Cygwin is a unix shell emulator and uses its own environment and should not be used as a replacement for windows cmd. Simply put, anything installed in cygwin won't have any effect on your windows environment.
letian
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany4221 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-01 15:51:08
June 01 2017 15:42 GMT
#264
steamlink works perfectly in unix shells. Here is an updated bash script I use to spawn multiple vlc streams.
run as ./afreeca.sh
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17259 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-01 22:06:21
June 01 2017 22:01 GMT
#265
Alright guys:

The latest stable build was released 21 days ago, which is later than the guide was updated. This means the stable version should have everything you need to run Afreeca. Try that build. If it's working, we should get the OP updated to use stable instead of nightly since nightly builds are inherently unstable and I'd expect problems like this to pop up in the future.

https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/releases/tag/0.6.0

On June 02 2017 00:34 letian wrote:
Guys, you do not need cygwin at all. Open up windows cmd and install urllib3 via pip install urllib3. If you have python3.5 installed on windows you'll have pip as part of its package as well. Python package manager pip will be available from windows cmd. Cygwin is a unix shell emulator and uses its own environment and should not be used as a replacement for windows cmd. Simply put, anything installed in cygwin won't have any effect on your windows environment.

Most people don't have pip installed.
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Fenito
Profile Joined November 2008
Russian Federation10 Posts
June 02 2017 05:17 GMT
#266
I downloaded afreeca_x86.bat and all was good, streams starting, but yesterday streams just Stopped open VLC player without errors [image loading] and this loading is infinite.
noobpack
Profile Joined June 2017
1 Post
June 03 2017 10:55 GMT
#267
On May 30 2017 23:26 Grettin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2017 19:26 Gaitsaa wrote:
I've followed instructions on a reinstall, and now when I load the bat64 and type a stream I get no response. VLC doesn't load, but there are no errors presented in cmd.

Thoughts?

I reinstalled vlc and streamlink, tried basic bat, and tried too run the bat as admin but it will not load. Didn't have too do that before...

edit: cmd display when i run streamlink

[image loading]


This is the issue im facing as well.



Hi guys,

Same issue faced on a Windows 10 laptop.

I've fixed by copying some of the python packages directly into the zip file that comes with the Streamlink installation, for me is in Streamlink\Python:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Streamlink\Python\python35.zip

In there I've copied urllib3, idna, charder, certify.. I don't remember all right now, yet after each copy it will change the error to tell you what package you are missing.

Now a more detailed step by step:
1. Install Python from: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-361/ (windows 64 installer for me)

2. Open Command Prompt ( press windows key + write "cmd" )

3. Use change directory command (cd) to go to the installation folder to the Scripts
"cd Users\NoobPack\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts"
You need to user your own windows user name instead of "NoobPack"

4. Once your cmd is at the Python36\Scripts folder you can call the pip method to request the packges
"pip install urllib3"
"C:\Users\NoobPack\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts>pip install urllib3"

5. These should actually get the python package from online, now you just need to figure out where exactly it got fetched, just call the "pip install urllib3" again and it should tell you it's already there and where it is:
"C:\Users\NoobPack\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts>pip install urllib3
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3 in c:\users\noobpack\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages"

6. Now you can navigate to the "appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages" and copy urllib3 folder as mentioned initially inside the python35.zip file from your Streamlink folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\Streamlink\Python\python35.zip"

7. In cmd write "streamlink" command and see if another package is required .. repeat steps 4-6 and request + copy inside the zip all missing packages

OR

If you trust strangers on the internet ( which I strongly recommend against ) you can directly download my already packaged version of python35.zip file from:
www.loudsparks.com/share/python35.zip

And then just overwrite the one in the Streamlink installation ( C:\Program Files (x86)\Streamlink\Python\python35.zip )

Thank you, and hope it fixes your issues.
heynes
Profile Joined July 2009
Germany201 Posts
June 16 2017 12:04 GMT
#268
thank you for this !
foxrip
Profile Joined June 2017
1 Post
June 16 2017 17:48 GMT
#269
steamlink works perfectly in unix shells. Here is an updated bash script I use to spawn multiple vlc streams.
run as ./afreeca.sh

the link is not working for me.. can u fix the link or add a mirror?
thx :D
This is he
Profile Joined June 2017
1 Post
Last Edited: 2017-06-30 12:58:34
June 30 2017 12:48 GMT
#270
FWIW, version 0.7.0 is out and it supports teamliquid.net links!

usage: streamlink http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/koreasbg best and it will open in your media player!
Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42381 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-05 18:27:26
July 05 2017 18:27 GMT
#271
Latest version of nightly seem to work properly. (No problems regarding the issue discussed above/last few pages.)

new nightly link (taken from here (Github)

https://dl.bintray.com/streamlink/streamlink-nightly/

"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
letian
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany4221 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-09 09:23:35
July 09 2017 09:22 GMT
#272
To all Linux users.

I have dropped my livestreamer fork and switched to streamlink backend.
Now, to watch the bw streams via vlc you'll only need a bash script which you can take from here.

As usual, you'll need to replace the afreeca.py (if you still haven't) which is installed with streamlink with the one here.

The script can check who's online, set "aws_original", "aws_hd" or "aws_sd" quality of streams. Run multiple vlc stream instances (unless you explicitly forbid it in vlc config) with different players.

Here is a github repo with the instructions and the required files.
Scaramanga
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Australia8091 Posts
July 19 2017 13:56 GMT
#273
I replaced the afreeca.py but I'm still getting the 'aws_hd' error message, what do?
Loda talked about the fun counter, it's AdmiralBulldog on his natures prophet
Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42381 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-19 15:39:15
July 19 2017 15:37 GMT
#274
On July 19 2017 22:56 Scaramanga wrote:
I replaced the afreeca.py but I'm still getting the 'aws_hd' error message, what do?


Do you get the stream open with just "best" or "gs_hd" instead of aws_hd?
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
juvenal
Profile Joined July 2013
2448 Posts
July 20 2017 07:51 GMT
#275
Anyone else having troubles with afreeca just the last couple of days? Won't start a stream at all if I use the flash player and lags terribly on html5.
Michael Probu
Scaramanga
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Australia8091 Posts
July 20 2017 10:46 GMT
#276
On July 20 2017 00:37 Grettin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2017 22:56 Scaramanga wrote:
I replaced the afreeca.py but I'm still getting the 'aws_hd' error message, what do?


Do you get the stream open with just "best" or "gs_hd" instead of aws_hd?

I can't get any streams open regardless of what server or stream quality I use
Loda talked about the fun counter, it's AdmiralBulldog on his natures prophet
iCCup.Trent
Profile Joined May 2005
Argentina450 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-20 10:50:06
July 20 2017 10:49 GMT
#277
On July 09 2017 18:22 letian wrote:
To all Linux users.

I have dropped my livestreamer fork and switched to streamlink backend.
Now, to watch the bw streams via vlc you'll only need a bash script which you can take from here.

As usual, you'll need to replace the afreeca.py (if you still haven't) which is installed with streamlink with the one here.

The script can check who's online, set "aws_original", "aws_hd" or "aws_sd" quality of streams. Run multiple vlc stream instances (unless you explicitly forbid it in vlc config) with different players.

Here is a github repo with the instructions and the required files.

This is working for me on the latest osx (Sierra). Thank you! The bash script doesn't seem to work, but you can easily figure out how to run the last line which does the job.

If anybody is struggling to make it work on the mac let me know.
Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42381 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-20 12:02:46
July 20 2017 11:57 GMT
#278
On July 20 2017 19:46 Scaramanga wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 20 2017 00:37 Grettin wrote:
On July 19 2017 22:56 Scaramanga wrote:
I replaced the afreeca.py but I'm still getting the 'aws_hd' error message, what do?


Do you get the stream open with just "best" or "gs_hd" instead of aws_hd?

I can't get any streams open regardless of what server or stream quality I use


Sorry, wish i could help more. The newest nightly build without switching any .py files work for me.
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
VioleTAK
Profile Joined July 2006
4338 Posts
July 20 2017 13:59 GMT
#279
This is so great!
Fantastic guide. Got it working within 2 minutes. A world of difference between watching in the website, 0 lag!
Thank you!
Every fan of Starcraft is a fan of Lim Yo Hwan by association
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
July 20 2017 19:14 GMT
#280
On July 20 2017 22:59 VioleTAK wrote:
This is so great!
Fantastic guide. Got it working within 2 minutes. A world of difference between watching in the website, 0 lag!
Thank you!

Over a decade later, I finally got to give VioleTAK a little something in return for literally letting me watch StarCraft.

You are very welcome, mate. <3
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