About:
qLiveStreamer is a small Qt/C++ frontend for Livestreamer. It allows you to bookmark and watch live streams from sites such as Twitch, Justin, UStream, etc trough media players like VLC and MPlayer instead of watching it trough your browser. It currently supports Twitch, Justin, UStream, Livestream, YouTube and Dailymotion.
Purpose:
It's mainly intended for Linux users, Although it will work on Windows/Mac/BSD as well. On Linux Flash is often extremely slow and buggy. Furthermore Adobe no longer provides updates for Flash on Linux. This means anything using Flash on Linux, such as streaming and video sites, are often slow/laggy, cause freezes or crash the browser.
(q)LiveStreamer works around this problem by playing the stream/video trough the selected media player. This is especially useful for low-end PC's.
How to compile/run qLiveStreamer:
At this point I don't provide any binaries or distribution packages. So in order to use it you'll have to compile the source code.
1) make sure Livestreamer is installed. See Installation ? Livestreamer 1.5.2 documentation.
2) if it's not installed already, install Qt-creator with Qt 4.x;
- for Debian flavors:
- for openSUSE:
3) compile:
4) run it:
Screenshot:
Git repo: https://github.com/Hyperz/qLiveStreamer
qLiveStreamer is a small Qt/C++ frontend for Livestreamer. It allows you to bookmark and watch live streams from sites such as Twitch, Justin, UStream, etc trough media players like VLC and MPlayer instead of watching it trough your browser. It currently supports Twitch, Justin, UStream, Livestream, YouTube and Dailymotion.
Purpose:
It's mainly intended for Linux users, Although it will work on Windows/Mac/BSD as well. On Linux Flash is often extremely slow and buggy. Furthermore Adobe no longer provides updates for Flash on Linux. This means anything using Flash on Linux, such as streaming and video sites, are often slow/laggy, cause freezes or crash the browser.
(q)LiveStreamer works around this problem by playing the stream/video trough the selected media player. This is especially useful for low-end PC's.
How to compile/run qLiveStreamer:
At this point I don't provide any binaries or distribution packages. So in order to use it you'll have to compile the source code.
1) make sure Livestreamer is installed. See Installation ? Livestreamer 1.5.2 documentation.
2) if it's not installed already, install Qt-creator with Qt 4.x;
- for Debian flavors:
Code:
sudo apt-get install qtcreator- for openSUSE:
Code:
sudo zypper in qt-creator3) compile:
Code:
git clone https://github.com/Hyperz/qLiveStreamer.git
cd qLiveStreamer
mkdir build
qmake DESTDIR=../build
make4) run it:
Code:
cd build
./qlivestreamerScreenshot:
Git repo: https://github.com/Hyperz/qLiveStreamer
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