Download VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Download Livestreamer: https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/releases
1st method (easiest in my opinion)
Make a new notepad document and paste this in (ends at exit):
@echo off
echo 1. Enter channel:
set /p channel=%channel%
echo ——————————————————————————-
echo 2. Enter quality (mobile_low, 280p, 360p, 480p, mobile_high, 720p, source)
echo or (worst, low, medium, high, best, for automatic selection)
echo (try best first, if stream lags, try high or mobile_high):
set /p quality=%quality%
start livestreamer.exe twitch.tv/%channel% %quality% –ringbuffer-size 65536 –rtmpdump “%~dp0rtmpdumprtmpdump.exe” –player “c:program files (x86)videolanvlcvlc.exe”
exit
Save the document as ‘all types’ and chose a filename with .bat at the end of it, like this: Twitchstream.bat save it and open it.
Now enter your desired channel, choose the quality and hit enter 🙂
2nd method
Press Windows key+R and write: livestreamer twitch.tv/STREAMYOUWATCH best
At the end write either low, high, medium, mobile or best (source) to decide the quality of the stream. Then press enter.
I would recommend just making a premade notepad document with all your followed streams.
Here is an example of how I have it in my document:
livestreamer twitch.tv/sodapoppin best
livestreamer twitch.tv/lirik best
livestreamer twitch.tv/summit1g best
This makes it easier and you can just copy and paste after pressing Windows Key+R
Thanks to the Dota 2 post on Reddit “How to watch twitch through VLC”: http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/1o5n68/how_to_watch_twitch_through_vlc/
**NOTE**
The stream has to be in 60 FPS for you to be able to view it in 60 FPS.
In my experience I have problems seeing the 60FPS when on Twitch.tv it feels more like sluggish 30FPS, so using Livestreamer has really improved my Twitch experience.
Stream I used as an example was: http://www.twitch.tv/summit1g
source
I did everything exactly right and it says it's unable to open. Any ideas how to fix?
everything works…. but then VLC doesnt open even though it says the same thing yours does help?
after typing streamer name and video quality window's just closing, I've update vlc, create a .bat file again, nothing worked and now I have no idea how to fix this, pleas help.
It works, thank you!
Hey nice tutorial it works very good. But I can't get dota2ti channel to work on second CMD promt when it says finding matching plugin it just stops there on first line, cmd goes away and nothing happens any suggestions ? It does same thing when you try to watch channel which is offline .
Thanks bro i really couldnt stand those 15fps streams..
Does this work for past broadcasts? or VODs?
for the link https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/releases where is the install button at for windows…
dont work?
Thank you
if the first method dont work, try this one:
@echo off
echo 1. Enter channel:
set /p channel=%channel%
echo ——————————————————————————-
echo 2. Enter quality (mobile_low, 280p, 360p, 480p, mobile_high, 720p, source)
echo or (worst, low, medium, high, best, for automatic selection)
echo (try best first, if stream lags, try high or mobile_high):
set /p quality=%quality%
start livestreamer.exe twitch.tv/%channel% %quality% –ringbuffer-size 65536 –rtmpdump "%~dp0rtmpdumprtmpdump.exe" –player "c:program filesvideolanvlcvlc.exe"
exit
This really worked and now I can finally watch Twitch streams. Thank you and you did really well with the video.
thanks it worked !
tnx bro
Well it doesn't work for me. As soon as i press the final enter, after a few seconds an ''error. something'' appears and the cmd window disappears by itself. Any suggestions?
nice one it worked 🙂 so much better then chrome
This made want to drink bleach
dayuuuummm thx so much bro!
thanks man, incredible
Nice man, thanks a lot
Hey +Sebbz Really helpful video. Only thing i'm curious about is when i watch a small streamer with no video settings option, it doesn't work. Say if i type 360p. But if i type ''source'' it works fine. Any ideas or is this solely to make source streaming slightly easier?
Lol it works! i recently switched to external monitor (1080 , not 720) so i had frame drops, in full screen, because shitty laptop…….now …with vlc is much smoother . I can't believe this ! Twitch uses a shitty codec, cause you tube videos at 1080 60 in full screen don't have this problem. Amazing man. Really tthanks!
What if I want to watch a repeated stream from twitch channel library? how that works, do I have to enter the Url?
you sound like trilluxe!
Wow, this is incredible. Thank you so much!
works really awesome thank you!!
That's awesome dude!!