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<h1><a name="top">Livestreamer</a></h1>
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<a href="#usage">Usage</a> |
<a href="#settings">Settings</a> |
<a href="#troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a>
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<p><a href="http://livestreamer.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">Livestreamer</a>
is a commandline program that can be used to watch streams in a player like
VLC Player. It has to be downloaded and installed seperately from Chatty.</p>
<h2><a name="usage">Usage</a></h2>
<p>You can open the Livestreamer dialog that Chatty provides via
<code>Extra - Livestreamer</code>, where you can directly run Livestreamer
and change some settings.</p>
<p>Each time you open a stream via the dialog or a context menu, a tab is
added to the dialog where the output of the Livestreamer process is
redirected to. If you open a stream with the same stream name and quality you already
have open in a tab whose process isn't currently running, then that tab will
be reused.</p>
<p>The tab of a stream is automatically closed when you close the Video
Player opened by Livestreamer, if the dialog isn't currently open. Otherwise
you have to close it yourself by using the <code>Close</code>-button on the
top right, which turns into an <code>End process</code>-button as long as
the process is still running. The <code>Retry</code>-button can be used to
re-run the last command of that tab (for example when it couldn't find the
stream, but you want to retry now because you know it's come online).</p>
<h2><a name="settings">Settings</a></h2>
<p>The settings can be changed in the Livestreamer dialog.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Enable context menu entry</strong>: Adds Livestreamer to all
context menus that can be used to open streams (like User Context Menu,
Channel Context Menu or Live Streams Context Menu).</li>
<li><strong>Show dialog when opening stream</strong>: Automatically open
the Livestreamer Dialog when you open a stream out of the context menu.</li>
<li><strong>Context menu qualities</strong>: You can customize which
quality options appear in the context menu. The options you enter here
are directly given as a parameter to Livestreamer, except <code>Select</code>
which tells Chatty you want to select a quality in the dialog. Seperate
qualities by space or comma. Add a <code>|</code> (vertical bar) to add
a seperator to the menu.
<br /><br />
Examples:
<ul>
<li><code>Best, High, Worst | Select</code></li>
<li><code>Source High Medium Low Mobile | Select</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Base command or commandline options</strong>: This is used to
construct the command to run Livestreamer and is basicially the part
before the URL and the quality. This should point to the Livestreamer
program itself, including any commandline options you always want to have included. The default is just <code>livestreamer</code>, which
should usually be sufficient if the program is correctly included in
the systems PATH variable (or similiar), but it may also include the
full path to Livestreamer. Surround the path or any other parameter with quotes if it contains
spaces (e.g. <code>"C:\My Programs\Livestreamer\livestreamer.exe"</code>).
<br /><br />
Examples:
<ul>
<li><code>"C:\My Programs\Livestreamer\livestreamer.exe" --player "C:\Program
Files\MPC-HC\mpc-hc64.exe"</code> (specify full path to Livestreamer
and use a different player)</li>
<li><code>/usr/local/bin/livestreamer</code> (this might work on Linux/Mac
if it can't find Livestreamer without the full path)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Use Authorization (Twitch Oauth Token)</strong>: Supplies to
Twitch Access Token that is used for Chatty to Livestreamer to authenticate
you when watching a stream via Livestreamer (probably only necessary to
be able to watch sub-only streams).</li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a></h2>
<p>If you get an error like <code>Error: java.io.IOException: Cannot run
program "&lt;...&gt;": CreateProcess error=2 [..]</code>, then
Chatty probably can't find Livestreamer on your system.</p>
<p>To solve this, first make sure that
you actually have Livestreamer installed. You need to install it on you own, it does
not come bundled with Chatty. If you are sure it is installed (and you maybe can
run it from the commandline just fine), you may have to tell Chatty the full
path to the Livestreamer executable for it to work by entering it in the
<code>Base command or commandline options</code> field. See the Settings section
above for examples and help on that.</p>
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