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Livestreamer
============
Livestreamer is a CLI program that launches streams from various
streaming services in a custom video player.
Currently supported sites are:
* GOMTV.net
* Justin.tv/Twitch.tv
* Ongamenet
* Own3d.tv
* SVTPlay
* UStream
* YouTube
Note: Justin.tv plugin requires rtmpdump with jtv token support (recent git).
Livestreamer is compatible with Python version >= 2.6 and >= 3.0.
Installing (Linux, OS X etc)
----------
Make sure you have Python and Python setuptools then run:
$ sudo python setup.py install
Installing (Windows)
--------------------
1. Install Python
2. Install Python setuptools
3. Get rtmpdump and unpack it somewhere (rtmpdump-20110925-git-6230845-win32.zip from http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/ should work)
4. Add these paths to your Path environment variable:
* [Python path]\
* [Python path]\scripts\
* [rtmpdump path]\ (or specify full path with --rtmpdump option)
* [VLC/mplayer/other path]\ (or specify full path with --player option)
5. Open a command prompt and change directory to livestreamer source, then run:
python setup.py install
Note: If you want to use VLC be aware there is currently a bug in version 2.0.1/2.0.2
that prevents stdin reading from working. The bug has been fixed in version 2.0.3.
Using
-----
$ livestreamer --help
Common issues
-------------
**Issue:** livestreamer errors with "Unable to read from stream" or "Error while executing subprocess" on Twitch/JustinTV streams.
**Solution:** When building rtmpdump from source it may link with a already existing (probably older) librtmp version instead of using it's own version. On Debian/Ubuntu it is recommended to use the official packages of *librtmp0* and *rtmpdump* version *2.4+20111222.git4e06e21*. This version contains the necessary code to use Twitch/JustinTV streams and avoids any conflicts. It should be available in the testing or unstable repositories if it's not available in stable yet.
Saving arguments AKA config file
--------------------------------
Livestreamer can read arguments from the file ~/.livestreamerrc (POSIX) or %APPDATA%\livestreamer\livestreamerrc (Windows).
A example file:
player=mplayer
jtv-cookie=_jtv3_session_id=arandomhash
Using livestreamer as a library
-------------------------------
http://livestreamer.readthedocs.org/
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