streamlink
Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player (by streamlink)
VideoLAN Client (VLC)
VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/ (by videolan)
| streamlink | VideoLAN Client (VLC) | |
|---|---|---|
| 131 | 379 | |
| 9,597 | 13,048 | |
| 1.0% | 1.5% | |
| 9.6 | 0.0 | |
| 1 day ago | 13 days ago | |
| Python | C | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
streamlink
Posts with mentions or reviews of streamlink.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-15.
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TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads
It doesn't look like Streamlink is immune to the challenges of Twitch ads: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/issues/4949
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Self-hosted cam recording site code?
i can't quite tell what you're asking for but check out https://streamlink.github.io/
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is there a way to record websites automatically
Take a look at this: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/
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Decent Touch Controls for FPS Games?
Streamlink != Steam Link
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--get-url seperated into audio and video link
alternatively, you can use streamlink to stream the video and let it open vlc for you.
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Searching for a GUI that allows me to run custom terminal commands
A summary of my use case: I like to watch Twitch streams via streamlink. For that purpose I use wtwitch, a terminal program which allows me to maintain a list of my favourite channels without a Twitch account, check which of those streamers are currently online and run a command to open their streams via streamlink.
- Playoff videos
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Use me if as a "i don't care about the kick drama it works fine i like the stream" button
Streamlink has very detailed and newbie friendly documentation. Here's the plugin you'd need to scrape Kick links.
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Problems when downloading whole Twitch VODs - no sound if .ts files are missing - best procedure (yt-dlp)?
I believe yt-dlp works and merges everything already for you. I use streamlink https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink for most of twitch stuff and all you have to do is pass in the vod url
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How to watch streams without enduring kick.com [TUTORIAL]!Q!!!!!!
Next you will need streamlink, again in the same powershell instance type.
VideoLAN Client (VLC)
Posts with mentions or reviews of VideoLAN Client (VLC).
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-22.
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Hz in Music and changing it
No. You can use a music player such as VLC Media Player to play music back tuned up or down slightly if you wish. But if people are affected by some frequencies and not others, that would be new.
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I Am SOLO | S1E01 - Ep. 1 | 2021-07-14
I watched S1E01 using the AI-generated subs and they were surprisingly good! You just need to download both the sub file (.srt) and the raw video (.mkv) and watch it using a video player like VLC (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/). Subs and raw files at the links below thanks to u/MNLYYZYEG
- For those who transcribe music by ear
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A collection of useful Mac Apps
VLC - Price: Free Free and open-source media player that plays most multimedia files and DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. (UX/UI feels outdated imo)
- unable to play youtube links
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Request: Shrek as Gaeilge
It might be the media player you use. I recommend using VLC media player.
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C++ is everywhere, but noone really talks about it. What are people's thoughts?
Seems to be C, not C++ to me. The C++ code is GUI wrappers to C++ GUI systems.
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Need help on how to repair this issue
Hi there! Try with VLC or mpv players, and see if they can play the corrupted video.
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MP4 File that was recorded back in 2020 turned into 0 Bytes
Try the repair option in VLC media player.
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Can't play Youtube videos, LUA stream error
You could try updating your LUA file with this: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua
What are some alternatives?
When comparing streamlink and VideoLAN Client (VLC) you can also consider the following projects:
youtube-dl-gui - A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.
mpv - 🎥 Command line video player
TwitchLeecher - Twitch Leecher - The Broadcast Downloader
iina - The modern video player for macOS.
Anime4K - A High-Quality Real Time Upscaler for Anime Video
ytfzf - A posix script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal. (Without API)
Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
streamlink-twitch-gui - A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink
celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv
youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
mpd - Music Player Daemon
streamlink vs youtube-dl-gui
VideoLAN Client (VLC) vs mpv
streamlink vs TwitchLeecher
VideoLAN Client (VLC) vs iina
streamlink vs mpv
VideoLAN Client (VLC) vs Anime4K
streamlink vs ytfzf
VideoLAN Client (VLC) vs Invidious
streamlink vs streamlink-twitch-gui
VideoLAN Client (VLC) vs celluloid
streamlink vs youtube-dl
VideoLAN Client (VLC) vs mpd