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How to watch Twitch.tv streams in VLC

Livestreamer is a command-line utility that pipes video streams from various services into a video player, such as VLC. The main purpose of Livestreamer is to allow the user to avoid buggy and CPU heavy flash plugins but still be able to enjoy various streamed content. 

 

Step 1

 

Download the installer and install VLC

 

VLC URL: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

 

Step 2

 

Download and install the latest version of Livestreamer 

 

Livestreamer URL: https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/releases

 

If you have changed the installation directory for VLC select 'Edit configuration file' if not skip this step.

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For example, if you installed VLC on the D: drive shown in the screenshot below, remove the number sign '#'. Lines starting with a # are ignored. 

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Step 3 

 

Download and install the latest version of Streamlink Twitch GUI

 

Streamlink Twitch GUI URL: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui/releases

 

Launch Streamlink Twitch GUI

 

Select Settings and select 'Streamlink'. Select Livestreamer (Standalone) as the stream provider and find the location of livestreamer.exe. By default C:\Program Files (x86)\Livestreamer\livestreamer.exe. Click apply and you will be able to launch a stream.

 

 

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I must try this! Hopefully it fixes streamtown for the better.

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Just a heads up, I'm fairly sure that this way gets no ads.

 

If its a channel that runs ads, every hour or so like the ones I watch, open up twitch normally in a browser for the ads every hour.

Should support the channels you enjoy :)

 

 

Otherwise, seems good.

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Is there also an option for source quality?

 

 

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cheers for this thread... may try some of these steps when a stream lags and the caster is not dropping frames etc..

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  • 1 month later...
On 19/03/2014 at 7:23 AM, Scottonpc said:

Updated the Livestreamer github link

 

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if you use chrome and get lag i have noticed that by switching to firefox i have reduced lag on chrome i cant watch WAN unless its low on firefox i can watch on high and source at sometimes

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This is perfect for me because I can turn up the wan show over 100% since its so quiet compared to other videos.

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Just a heads up, I'm fairly sure that this way gets no ads.

Except when it's like SC2 Proleague and they run commercials for the TV Station and Blizzard as part of the stream...

 

But yeah, adblocker doesn't seem to agree with Twitch

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I just want to make sure. This fixes the delay, right?

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I just want to make sure. This fixes the delay, right?

Twitch has a built in delay for streams, if that's what you mean

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I love this, thank you for sharing :)

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FINAL: Updated the livestreamer github download link for the latest version. Scroll to the bottom to find the latest download .exe or .zip.

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I always do this, really weird, I think the problem is with the flash player.

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Does this still work?

Yep, this is the only way so far that works perfect.

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ok i have no idea what im doing wrong...i open up my start menu type exactly "livestreamer http://www.twitch.tv/esl_lol high" without quotes. a CMD prompt opens up......then closes and nothing fckin happens.

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There's a thing called "Tardsplaya" that does something similar to reduce lag on twitch.

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I always thought this "stutter" which you mean by "lagging" is because of twitch codec, combine with Browser it's not really great

specially when the browser is single threaded handling the connections (not to mention, adobe flash also takes lot's of part with this)

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Thank you so much, I need to show my friends this.

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I just started using this and it works great :D

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