Twitch on PPC? Why yes, we can!

[wicknix]

Tested under linux on a DP 2Ghz G5, but should work on Tiger/Leopard as well.

First, using a mozilla derived browser (TFF, AF, IW, SW, PM etc) install the GreaseMonkey extension. Then go grab this user script: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/8114-stream-url-grabber and install it.

Then load up twitch.tv in your browser. Give it some time to load. Our PPC's aren't always speed demons. Once you find a stream you want to see click on the "Grabber" button, then click on the "Download" button that pops up next to the Grabber button. Save the m3u8 file.

Open downloaded blahblah.m3u8 file in any text editor and comment out # the higher resolutions. I find 480p is a happy medium for me without taxing the cpu.

Now right click on blahblah.m3u8 and open with your favorite video player. I use mpv, but vlc and mplayer work just as well. Boom! Your stream will start playing. Enjoy.

Cheers

 

[z970]

Here's an improved version:

Twitch on PowerPC?

 

[wicknix]

Ok, so the previous way kind of sucked, and didn't work with any 10.4/10.5 browsers, so i created an app/script to make it easy. This is tested and working on Leopard. It may work on 10.4 if you edit the script to use mplayer. By default VLC is used as it starts the stream instantly, while mplayer takes a good 20-30 seconds to play.

Requirements: Current youtube-dl, FFmpeg from macports (does the smtube mplayer.pkg include it?), VLC 2.0.10 or higher, and OS X 10.5 or higher (10.4 is untested).

480p fluctuates 60-90% cpu on PowerBook G4. 360p sits around 53%.

Cheers

 

[wicknix]

I know it's been awhile, but i finally got around to cleaning up and releasing something more complete.

http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/twitchplay

Cheers

 

[Bruninho]

You’re bloody amazing.

 

[NewbiePPC]

Hi wicknix, I'm not sure if you're still supporting this app but it doesn't work for me at the moment, I try to download youtube-dl but doesn't work so I updated it from PPCMC but still no luck. I'm doing something wrong?

Thanks for your work on PPC!

 

[wicknix]

Looks like i need to update the certificates. Thanks for pointing it out. i'll look in to it.

Cheers

 

[wicknix]

@NewbiePPC i finally got around to fixing it (i hope as it works for me again).
Give it spin. http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/twitchplay

Cheers

 

[Jack Severity]

@NewbiePPC i finally got around to fixing it (i hope as it works for me again).
Give it spin. http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/twitchplay

Cheers

Hi Wicknix.
I tried the version you have on MacGarden but havent had any luck getting it going. PPCMC twitch streaming works fine as I understand they are kinda the same? but yeah no luck with TwitchPlay.
When trying to update youtube dl with the included terminal command " /Applications/TwitchPlay.app/dist/bin/youtube-dl -U" I get "Error cant find the current version, please try again later.

When trying to watch a stream, put in streamers name and the res and I get all this....
"ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, '_ssl.c:510: error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol'),))
pipe:: Invalid data found when processing inputKB sq= 0B f=0/0"

Twitchplay app is in my applications folder as told to do so. Also have python2.7 installed from your provided link
If i can offer anymore info please let me know. OS. Tiger, Mac G4 Cube 450mhz

 

[juanstdio]

Looks like the bin youtube-dl got corrupted, I downloaded it from the garden, verified the md5, all good. but when I tried to update, it output

powerbook-g4-12-de-juan:/Library juanstdio$ /Applications/TwitchPlay.app/dist/bin/youtube-dl -U
sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\x97' in file /Applications/TwitchPlay.app/dist/bin/youtube-dl on line 3, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
File "/Applications/TwitchPlay.app/dist/bin/youtube-dl", line 2
PK▒▒t5▒▒E▒▒▒▒bsv6▒▒▒]:e'
7▒r▒▒▒▒/▒-▒▒▒▒Rq▒▒▒b▒Ι|▒ƛp▒
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

 

[juanstdio]

So I got an idea.. if you switch youtube-dl and use yt-dlp (From PPMC) you can still use the app.
I have edited twitch-play script (added some certs) and I was able to bypass the error
Also disabled some debug info from yt-dlp ffmpeg
I attached the modded twitch-play script, download and replace it under /Applications/TwitchPlay.app/dist/bin and you are ready to go

 

[Jack Severity]

So I got an idea.. if you switch youtube-dl and use yt-dlp (From PPMC) you can still use the app.
I have edited twitch-play script (added some certs) and I was able to bypass the error
Also disabled some debug info from yt-dlp ffmpeg
I attached the modded twitch-play script, download and replace it under /Applications/TwitchPlay.app/dist/bin and you are ready to go



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awesome mate. Ill give it a go on my cube and see how i go. I was trying to do the same but bit 2 advanced for me. Ill edit this post with my results.

EDIT...
I managed to get it working kind of. It wouldnt work just downloading your edit but i moved a few files around in ppc media player and manged to get it to sort of work. video is playing but the colors are all wrong.
Currently downloading ppc media player again. 7.2.6 for tiger. will try it again when its downloded

 

[juanstdio]

awesome mate. Ill give it a go on my cube and see how i go. I was trying to do the same but bit 2 advanced for me. Ill edit this post with my results.

EDIT...
I managed to get it working kind of. It wouldnt work just downloading your edit but i moved a few files around in ppc media player and manged to get it to sort of work. video is playing but the colors are all wrong.
Currently downloading ppc media player again. 7.2.6 for tiger. will try it again when its downloded

Exactly, it will look for yt-dlp, ffmpeg and python3.6 from PPMC folder.. Glad it worked

I tested it on my G4 12" 1ghz DVI and I was able to play streams up to 480p, highly recommed to install brew for tiger (tigerbrew) if you want to play around with the OS

 

[wicknix]

Thanks for messing with it. I figured it had to be youtube-dl or certs related. Just haven't had a lot of time to look in to it again. Glad you got it working. I'll try to update it this coming week possibly if i get a chance.

Cheers

 

[Dronecatcher]

Currently downloading ppc media player again. 7.2.6 for tiger. will try it again when its downloded

The script won't work with 7.2.6 as that version has yt-dlp pre-expanded - the prior version of PPCMC7 unpacks yt-dlp upon each execution.

If you use 7.2.6 replace "/Applications/PPCMC.app/bin/yt-dlp --rm-cache-dir" with this:

/Applications/PPCMC.app/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/__main__.py --rm-cache-dir

 

[Jack Severity]

The script won't work with 7.2.6 as that version has yt-dlp pre-expanded - the prior version of PPCMC7 unpacks yt-dlp upon each execution.

If you use 7.2.6 replace "/Applications/PPCMC.app/bin/yt-dlp --rm-cache-dir" with this:

/Applications/PPCMC.app/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/__main__.py --rm-cache-dir

Thank you Dronecatcher. That got it up and running but still getting the green & pink. Tried swapping a few files with ppc media but no luck. Works fine on ppcmc. Thanks for the help.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Thank you Dronecatcher. That got it up and running but still getting the green & pink. Tried swapping a few files with ppc media but no luck. Works fine on ppcmc. Thanks for the help.

Adding this for FFPlay should fix the colours:

ffplay -vf scale=in_color_matrix=yuva420p,format=rgb32

I'm taking this from my youtube scripts so haven't tested it for the Twitch stuff - as I'm not a "Twitcher"

 

[Jack Severity]

Adding this for FFPlay should fix the colours:

ffplay -vf scale=in_color_matrix=yuva420p,format=rgb32

I'm taking this from my youtube scripts so haven't tested it for the Twitch stuff - as I'm not a "Twitcher"

Legend! Thank you. did the trick

 

[Jack Severity]

Looks like the "new fix doesn't work anymore" it stopped working today for me. So opened PPCMC to download the lastest youtube-dl and looks like python is too far out of date. 3.7 looks like its the oldest supported now.
Is there an easy fix?
Many Thanks

 

[Jack Severity]

kinda got it 2 work. deleted ppcmc and redownloaded. the older version of youtube dl seams to still work

 

[Dronecatcher]

Looks like the "new fix doesn't work anymore" it stopped working today for me. So opened PPCMC to download the lastest youtube-dl and looks like python is too far out of date. 3.7 looks like its the oldest supported now.
Is there an easy fix?
Many Thanks

Are you getting youtube-dl and yt-dlp mixed up? PPCMC7 now uses the latter.

Version 7.2.6 still works for me with the original yt-dlp it was bundled with - updating it would cause the Python trouble.

Incidentally, youtube-dl still appears to work but it's incredibly slow now.