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Command-line utility that extracts streams from various services and pipes them into a video player of choice. No longer maintained, use streamlink or youtube-dl instead.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2014-08-25 · latest 2016-07-20

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  1. Better than relying on Flash or HTML5 for Twitch: just skip the Twitch website entirely and use https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer with VLC. The resource (and battery!) usage for "native" streaming is so much lower than the browser…
    comment by derefr · 2016-07-20 · in Reducing Adobe Flash Usage in Firefox
  2. …issues that come up with their terrible player. No more skipping to random sections of the episode. https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer
    comment by lochlainn · 2016-04-08 · in YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
  3. Just submitted a PR for livecoding.tv support as well: https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/pull/978 I coded it live as well (heh), you can check out the vod on my channel https://livecoding.tv/ell
    comment by mumphster · 2015-06-30 · in Livecoding.tv (YC S15) Is Twitch.tv for Coding
  4. https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/pull/978 just submitted a PR, enjoy!
    comment by mumphster · 2015-06-30 · in Livecoding.tv (YC S15) Is Twitch.tv for Coding
  5. You might like https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer
    comment by aw3c2 · 2015-06-29 · in Livecoding.tv (YC S15) Is Twitch.tv for Coding
  6. …0: https://github.com/lejenome/html5-video-everywhere 1: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl 2: https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer
    comment by _jomo · 2015-06-23 · in A Month Without Adobe Flash Player
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    Livestreamer: Pipe video on the web to a local video player
    story by Spiritus · 2015-03-09 · 0 comments
  8. thanks, this works well with https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer
    comment by aw3c2 · 2014-09-15 · in LIVE NOW: Glenn Greenwald, Assange, and Kim Dot Com in NZ
  9. https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer supports hitbox if you're looking for a way to watch in the meantime
    comment by ehPReth · 2014-08-25 · in Twitch officially acquired by Amazon