Streamlink

Streamlink: Open-Source Command-Line Utility for Streaming

Streamlink is an open-source command-line utility that allows users to play streams from various streaming services in a video player of their choice. It supports over 100 services including Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion, and more.

What is Streamlink?

Streamlink is an open-source command-line utility that allows users to play streams from various streaming services in the video player of their choice instead of being restricted to using the web player of each particular service. It supports over 100 popular streaming services including Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion, Crunchyroll, and more.

Streamlink works by parsing the website of the streaming service and extracting the video stream URL to the actual content. It then allows you to specify a video player to play that stream on your computer. For example, you can play a Twitch stream in VLC instead of using the Twitch web player by just running one simple command on your system terminal or command prompt.

Features of Streamlink include support for both live streams and video on demand content, the ability to pipe streams through other applications, customizable plugin system to add new services, and the ability to automatically fetch new quality streams if the original stream drops. It is fast, lightweight, and efficient.

Some key benefits of Streamlink are avoiding unblockable ads on web players, reduced resource usage compared to running flash players in the browser, generally more stable streams with reduced buffering, better video playback features with players like MPV and VLC, and the ability to stream Twitch streams at higher quality than what you can normally get on their website.

Overall, Streamlink is a versatile multi-service streaming utility for advanced users that unlocks the ability to control precisely how streams are playback on their system.

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