Shout Outs Possible?

[MWE001]

So I am probably barking up the wrong tree here but this is my last ditch effort.

I am using VRFLad's shoutout player and it worked great for ages and now it skips, stutters and freezes up and skips frames real bad (self hoted or using flads hosting). I have tried Twitch Guru as well as a few others and they all do the same thing now. I firmly believe it is a ffmpeg issue. However here is the kick in the sack, your random video player works flawless and always has! I have had no issues ever with it at all. So while I can no longer do video shoutouts for anyone on Twitch, I sure can show random video clips of my stream all day.

So here is the question and reason why. Can your rand clips player any way at all be used for shoutouts? A guy told me he uses it for exactly that but I do not seem to think so unless he did some engineering on it and is not telling anyone. I bumped into another guy and asked him what shoutout player he was using and he sent me right back here as well and sure enough, it is the random clips player I have been using trouble free forever.

If it is not possible the way it is currently and they are simply reverse engineering it, then by all means please disregard my post. I just thought I would ask since your player is the only one in the universe left that will play trouble free for me.

Thanks for your time.

[jaredcat]

Yea, not really sure there. If they're using this, I would guess it's been heavily modified.
Most of those shoutout things make API calls or something to get clips from a channel. This doesn't do any of that.
I would also say this has a totally different purpose of randomly playing a set of videos, so they don't get stale when repeating. Which is different from just wanting to show a few videos from a person, and you could randomize that when you get the videos and just play them in order after that.

The only other thing I can think of is that these people shoutout the same people. So, they download the clips ahead of time and put them in a folder and then use this on each folder, so they play the clips from their friends randomly (this sounds like a lot of work to me)

I would have to have more information overall, but I would guess there's probably easier ways to achieve shoutout rather than using this as a basis.

[MWE001]

You are 100% correct on the downloaded clips.

I went back and asked again from another person and he confirmed that what he was doing was downloading clips and using this player as the random clip player. He used streamer.bot and created an action in it that when he shouted out a particular user it would search use your player and use a random clip from their folder (??) and if one did not exist, it would use Twitch native shoutout and they would hope for the best and most of the time get a choppy video like a lot of the rest of us are getting as of late.

And I agree with your statement, it is a lot of work. At this point, I have tried 100% of everything in the books and a couple of us are convinced Twitch has changed their API recently causing this issue. The 2 choices I have moving forward is ditch video shoutouts all together or just let them roll and hope to get 1 good clip to play out of however many tries.

I really appreciate you taking the time to drop a reply back to me. I hope all is well your way and you have a fantastic day/evening! Stay safe out there.

[jaredcat]

I kind of like the idea of manually downloading the clips. IMO the random clip shootouts are kind of cringe lol. For me, 50% of the time the context is lost, and I'm like struggling to explain it in chat to the streamer. Curating them gives your viewers a better experience. Win-win.