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Livestreamer: The Light VLC Twitch Viewer!

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KTK99
Profile Joined November 2014
China48 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-25 06:32:11
November 25 2014 06:11 GMT
#1
Here is a screenshot! (http://i.imgur.com/coS6F3N.png)

Easy and simple to use! Twitch is very resource intensive, and some of us can't run Source for things like Korean streamers with ridiculously high quality streams simply because Twitch takes up so much CPU. I didn't even know BaseTradeTV was 60fps on Source until I did this!

First, go to http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html and download VLC. It is a free media player.

Second, go to http://livestreamer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ and get Livestreamer.

Install both of those, then go to Command Prompt (Press Start+R, type cmd, then hit Enter), and type "livestreamer twitch.tv/usernamehere qualityhere" without quotes, usernamehere being the name of the Twitch streamer's channel, and qualityhere being one of the quality selections (worst/mobile, low, medium, high, best/source).

There you go! And I recommend that you open their stream in your browser and pause the video so they get your view because using Livestreamer won't recognize you as a viewer.
"If you lose, automatically assume their race is OP and they are map hacking." -Nathanias 2014
KTK99
Profile Joined November 2014
China48 Posts
November 25 2014 06:32 GMT
#2
Sorry for multiple edits. I lost my brain today.
"If you lose, automatically assume their race is OP and they are map hacking." -Nathanias 2014
LOcDowN
Profile Joined February 2003
United States1015 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-25 07:09:22
November 25 2014 07:02 GMT
#3
Where is the Windows download link on Livestreamer website that you linked?

Nm, found it: http://livestreamer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html#windows-binaries

Thanks man, this is very good.
-Kyo-
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Japan1926 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-25 09:06:12
November 25 2014 09:03 GMT
#4
I tried this out for fun because why not. I can't say it is /that/ much more beneficial than just using twitch, especially considering you have to open their stream in the background if you want to "directly" support them, and you also would need popoutchat or something if you want to interact.

That said, I compared a single chrome window with a stream vs your way, and while CPU is more or less the same it does appear to save quite a bit, probably for the above reasons, on memory:

[image loading]


ps: things do look much more smooth on VLC, though.


oh and edit: do not close cmd before vlc or it will freak out a bit... >.>
Anime is cuter than you. Legacy of the Void GM Protoss Gameplay: twitch.tv/kyo7763 youtube.com/user/KyoStarcraft/
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deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-25 09:32:00
November 25 2014 09:24 GMT
#5
Just a quick note - you don't have to use VLC in case you have Media Player Classic - Home Cinema ,-)

Usage:
just add -p way_to_your_media_player to the command in the 1st post.

E.g.
livestreamer http://www.twitch.tv/wintergaming low -p "c:\MPC-HC\mpc-hc.exe"
livestreamer http://www.twitch.tv/gsl medium -p "c:\Program Files\Media Player Classic\mpc-hc.exe"

In case you use 64bit MPC-HC you will have mpc-hc64.exe, I think. I am on 32bit system at work right now so I cannot show you this case

At work I use VLC but at home MPC, since I find the picture nicer. Maybe some advanced settings, I spent a lot of time setting the MPC to the way I like it

Edit> From Windows Vista(I think) you can use "TAB" key to complete the folder name(in case it will select wrong one use the tab key again until you find what you want :D), so you can write c:\pro TAB resulting in "c:\program files" then you can add "c:\program files"\medi TAB resulting in "c:\program files\media player classic" and so on
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-25 09:39:59
November 25 2014 09:30 GMT
#6
After installing livestreamer, add this GUI for full pleasure:
https://github.com/bastimeyer/livestreamer-twitch-gui/releases

It gets updated in time and will eventually get even better. Latest feature is that it even supports a list of your Favorites on twitch, directly from your twitch account.

It's pretty neat, press continue to browse and open more than one stream at once. Press Chat to open a standard twitch chat window in your browser. This thing by they way still shows you as a viewer on each stream you are playing, so they don't lose view counts from it. Oh and you can of course change stream quality from the gui too.

In vlc press ALT+H for minimal interface.
All video options in vlc work on live stream. You can crop it if there are black bars, you can zoom, you can sharpen the image and other cool stuff.

P.S. I would prefer to just use Twitch in a browser but it is indeed damn heavy on the PC, and I would like to use the spare power to run other heavier applications simultaneously with Twitch, so yeah.
If you stand next to my head, you can hear the ocean. - Day[9]
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
November 25 2014 09:44 GMT
#7
On November 25 2014 18:30 figq wrote:
...
P.S. I would prefer to just use Twitch in a browser but it is indeed damn heavy on the PC, and I would like to use the spare power to run other heavier applications simultaneously with Twitch, so yeah.

Well, twitch.tv is lagging on medium, livestreamer runs fluently on high. My choice is clear. Also a separate window is easier to hide at work(the lowest possible quality, if GSL could provide a radio stream it would be sufficient for me )
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
November 25 2014 09:47 GMT
#8
Oh, one more thing about VLC - you can go to Video / Video Track / Disable -- and listen to any stream as a radio.
If you stand next to my head, you can hear the ocean. - Day[9]
graNite
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany4434 Posts
November 25 2014 09:59 GMT
#9
If you view like this, are you counted as a viewer?
"Oink oink, bitches" - Tasteless on Pigbaby winning a map against Flash
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
November 25 2014 10:00 GMT
#10
On November 25 2014 18:59 graNite wrote:
If you view like this, are you counted as a viewer?

From the OP:

And I recommend that you open their stream in your browser and pause the video so they get your view because using Livestreamer won't recognize you as a viewer.
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-25 10:05:23
November 25 2014 10:01 GMT
#11
^ I believe OP is wrong on that. What it does help with is ads though.
On November 25 2014 18:59 graNite wrote:
If you view like this, are you counted as a viewer?
Yes, you are. It was pretty important for me too. (:

If you stand next to my head, you can hear the ocean. - Day[9]
Elche
Profile Joined June 2011
Finland170 Posts
November 25 2014 11:57 GMT
#12
Thank you so much!
First time in a year I'm able to watch twitch streams without lagging.
-Archangel-
Profile Joined May 2010
Croatia7457 Posts
November 25 2014 12:06 GMT
#13
I just tried this as well. It worked. Now I just need to find a stream that lags through website and try to watch it this way.
derElbe
Profile Joined February 2009
Germany571 Posts
November 30 2014 08:13 GMT
#14
This is nice,
does somebody have something like this for mac ?
Hoejja - Bisu - Leenock - TLO
terran4lyfe
Profile Joined December 2013
United States72 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-30 08:22:01
November 30 2014 08:20 GMT
#15
Long shot probably, but can you access twitch vods with this?

edit: Wow, that GUI is really spiffy ! :D ty to all who made these awesome tools
glhf
Yiome
Profile Joined February 2014
China1687 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-01 02:33:44
December 01 2014 02:26 GMT
#16
Thanks OP for this
Seems improve the stability of twitch stream for me a lot
Oh and potplayer could be used as well but setting it up everytime with -p command is a little annoying
Edit: I just installed VLC and it seems run better in VLC anyway. Thanks again : )
ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-01 02:33:46
December 01 2014 02:33 GMT
#17
Oh nice!
You can probably record the stream with VLC too, right?
Pisko.
Profile Joined August 2011
United States214 Posts
December 01 2014 06:31 GMT
#18
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-livestreamer/
life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery
Loomies
Profile Joined July 2010
United States645 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-04 19:53:52
January 04 2015 19:09 GMT
#19
I wasn't comfortable making a new thread but its something similar to this.

Picture of VLC embed replacing the flash player
http://i.imgur.com/559QMmN.jpg

Twitch changed their API in the past few weeks and I can only get low,medium,high settings. Source is the HD setting but can't seem to get it to work and the person who made this VLC embed script said he doesn't watch twitch anymore so has no time to update it.

Heres the script to use in tampermonkey

https://github.com/DeniSix/twitch-vlc-userscript/blob/16bab74cd49c5d598854fde1c5258e758037533e/twitch-vlc.user.js

I asked the Livestreamer dev in an email on how to get source but he told me to "“allow_audio_only=true”. I tried adding this part into several part of the script but can't get it to work. Any advice is deeply appreciated. VLC embed uses 40% CPU for me and flash is too cpu intensive. Livestreamer is cool but it can be annoying having to do this for every stream I open up. Thanks
Loomies
Profile Joined July 2010
United States645 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-05 01:58:50
January 04 2015 23:45 GMT
#20
https://github.com/Loomies/twitch-vlc-userscript/blob/700e23beb69f0195acdff12ef33d8d508af885dc/new API with cache options

You need tampermonkey and VLC for this script to work

Got it!

I recommend changing the network cache to 2000-3000
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