streamlink: an up to date fork of livestreamer

[j_cool]

Originally Posted by Damianonymous

I did not use Streamlink with ffmpeg.exe, only a version built into Python

How did you do that? To me sounds like something impossible.

[Damianonymous]

You are laughing at me? I know that without knowing the language I could write something wrong. I mean, I do not install the program, I only use Python pip install -U streamlink

[j_cool]

pip install -U streamlink

streamlink

Where did you get this from ( link )?

Not any file extension? ( streamlink-latest.exe, for example )

[ihryjfbd]

Originally Posted by j_cool

pip install -U streamlink

streamlink

Where did you get this from ( link )?

Not any file extension? ( streamlink-latest.exe, for example )

You don't have to add the extensions if you put it in your enviroment variables, same with livestreamer.
Also allows you to issuse the command without stating which folder the program is in too.

[j_cool]

This is fine about the usage after installation.

He says he ran streamlink without ffmpeg.

FFmpeg comes together with streamlink-latest.exe, if you open installation file as an archive with 7zip for example,
you will find FFmpeg inside it.

After installation, I don't find any other ffmpeg apart from one I already have in c:\ap\ff\ffmpeg.exe, and on %PATH%.

My c:\ap\ff\ffmpeg.exe is one I extracted from streamlink-latest.exe before installing streamlink
and placed in to c:\ap\ff\ ( deleted zeranoe ffmpeg, replacing it with one found inside streamlink-latest.exe ).

I tried "streamlink" ffmpeg and "zeranoe" ffmpeg on their own ( no streamlink ) and found that in one
situation "streamlink" ffmpeg does the job and "zeranoe" ffmpeg comes half the way and stops.

https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/issues/750

I try to find out what is he actually running, "streamlink" doesn't tell me anything,
and he is shy or lazy to say a few more words.

[Damianonymous]

In the environment variables, just have these Python paths -
C:\Python27\;C:\Python27\Scripts The installation is done with the command "pip install streamlink", "pip install livestreamer", etc. Updates to the new version with the command "pip install -U streamlink".

P.S. Chaturbate plugin does not work. For this moment he works with this code:

import re

from streamlink.plugin import Plugin
from streamlink.plugin.api import http, validate
from streamlink.stream import HLSStream

_url_re = re.compile(r"http(s)?://(\w+.)?chaturbate.com/[^/?&]+")
_playlist_url_re = re.compile("html \+= \"src='(?P<url>[^']+)\?")
_schema = validate.Schema(
    validate.transform(_playlist_url_re.search),
    validate.any(
        None,
        validate.all(
            validate.get("url"),
            validate.url(
                scheme="http",
                path=validate.endswith(".m3u8")
            )
        )
    )
)


class Chaturbate(Plugin):
    @classmethod
    def can_handle_url(self, url):
        return _url_re.match(url)

    def _get_streams(self):
        playlist_url = http.get(self.url, schema=_schema)
        if not playlist_url:
            return

        return HLSStream.parse_variant_playlist(self.session, playlist_url)


__plugin__ = Chaturbate

But this can change soon so keep track of the topic: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/issues/767

[j_cool]

Can you post here link where you got your "streamlink" from ?

I want to follow the same steps and see how it works from me.

To do that, I first have to get your "streamlink".

This is about installing streamlink as first step.

[Damianonymous]

https://streamlink.github.io/install.html

[j_cool]

I see,

"Source code", install python first and follow.

Optional
RTMPDump Required to play RTMP streams.
python-librtmp Required by the ustreamtv plugin to be able to use non-mobile streams.
ffmpeg Required to play streams that are made up of separate audio and video streams, eg. YouTube 1080p+

Looks like you are running linux.

Looks different with windows.

[j_cool]

I just had a look in windows installation and there is an option
"bundled tools".

I scripted my installation ages ago and forgot it is optional to install
rtmpdump and ffmpeg.

I choose not to instal ffmpeg and rtmpdump because I have them
pre installed.

I highly recommend to install streamlink's ffmpeg and not to install streamlink's rtmpdump,
and use KSV's rtmpdump instead.

It is possible to use KSV rtmpdump with streamlink, you just have to update the path to rtmpdump in your streamlinkrc file.