A guide for setting up Streamlink Twitch GUI to substitute Twitch's website, with Low Latency support.
This guide was made for Windows.
Requirements:
- A player of your choice(Latest MPC-HC recommended, supports K-Lite MCP)
- Latest Streamlink release.
- Latest Streamlink Twitch GUI release.
This is the most important part, as you may have issues otherwise if you don't set this up in-case you are using it for anything other than Twitch.
1 - After installing Streamlink, go to "%APPDATA%/streamlink"
2 - Open streamlinkrc(Yes, it has no extension) with notepad or Notepad++.
Follow the instructions there to set the directory of your player. In my case where I use MPC-HC, this is how it looks like.
I recommend that right after you're done, do this.
Now Streamlink should be set up for general use! I recommend you setup FFMPEG yourself if you're using it for something like YouTube.
To use Streamlink, open CMD, and type "streamlink URL quality".(Of course, switch URL for the stream's link and quality for...the quality. AKA 720p, 720p60, etc) Be aware it only supports several services. Check Streamlink's website for more info.
==OPTIONAL== ==Low Latency Support for Streamlink Twitch GUI== ==OPTIONAL==
3 - Download this plugin here, and back at the %APPDATA%/streamlink folder, create a plugins folder, and extract twitch.py on it. You may need 7-Zip to open and extract the plugin.
1 - Once you start it, you'll be instantly greeted with an pop-up to configure the app, go ahead, this shall take a while.
Go to the "Streaming" tab in the Settings. You'll have to set the paths for a Python executable and a Streamlink python script. This guide only covers the default path and the latest version of Streamlink, so do not create an Issue on GitHub if you don't have both.
Python
Streamlink
After you're done, please make sure these specific settings are exactly as in the image below.
2 - On the "Player" tab, pick the preset that matches your player, and then select it's executable. If you're this far, I don't need to guide you with that. The rest of the settings is up to you.
You're now ready to use Streamlink Twitch GUI to use Twitch and not worry about performance issues, just make sure your PC isn't THAT bad and your network can handle the streams you're watching. Remember, the app is VERY customizable.
