Live Streamer Manager (lsmgr)

Livestreamer Manager is a CLI program that interfaces with Livestreamer to launche streams from various streaming services (Twitch.tv, Own3d.tv etc) in a custom video player (VLC, mplayer etc)

Installing (Linux, OS X etc)

Make sure you have Python and Python setuptools then run:

$ sudo python setup.py install

Installing (Windows)

1. Install Python
2. Install Python setuptools
3. Get rtmpdump and unpack it somewhere (rtmpdump-20110925-git-6230845-win32.zip from http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/ should work)
4. Add these paths to your Path environment variable:

• [Python path]\
• [Python path]\scripts\
• [rtmpdump path]\ (or specify full path with --rtmpdump option)
• [VLC/mplayer/other path]\ (or specify full path with --player option)

5. Open a command prompt and change directory to livestreamer source, then run:

   python setup.py install

Note: If you want to use VLC be aware there is currently a bug in version 2.0.1/2.0.2 that prevents stdin reading from working. The bug has been fixed in version 2.0.3.

XSplit

Run Livestreamer Manager with and -x to enable XSplit tweaks.

lsm -x

The player will default to this you can adjust this as you wish. I would recommend only doing this if you know what you are doing.

vlc --sout=#rtp{sdp=rtsp://:{PORT}/} --no-sout-rtp-sap --no-sout-standard-sap --ttl=1 --sout-keep

To start a stream you can use the following. Use stream --help to see more info.

stream url stream

The XSplit URL will be shown in the command line output.

Saving arguments AKA config file

Livestreamer can read arguments from the file ~/.lsm.conf on Unix based operating systems and %APPDATA%\livestreamer-manager\lsm.conf on windows based operating systems. A example file:

player=mplayer
jtv-cookie=_jtv3_session_id=arandomhash
username=username
password=password