lichess_streamer

Builds a container for streaming Lichess TV to Twitch.

Usage

Save your Twitch API key in a file called twitch.env outside the repo, in the form:
```
STREAM_KEY=live_keygoes here
```

Build the container image

podman build -t lichess_streamer:latest .

Run the container image

podman run --env-file ../twitch.env lichess_streamer:latest

Base image is Alpine Linux
Mozilla Firefox - This is essentially the video source for our stream.
ffmpeg - This is video capture, transcoding and transmitting of the source to Twitch.
Xvfb - A X virtual framebuffer which is a display server implementing the X11 display server protocol. This is what Firefox is drawn too and what ffmpeg will capture from.
xdotool - Resize Firefox to be full screen, it seems while kiosk mode is meant to make it full screen, the lack of a window manager seems to be stopping it.

There were a few things I still need to look at.

Make the 'browser's address configurable to make it a more general.
Possibly in my example I could avoid adding the repositories to the container and instead use the --repository command line argument of apk add.
Allow the ENDPOINT to be configured via envfile as well. See [Recommended Ingest Endpoints For You][3] page in the Twitch help for list of endpoints.
The libx264 usage seems to prevent Mozilla Firefox from being able to view the stream, I have to use Microsoft Edge to view it instead.
If the Xvfb set-up could be baked into the image so it always loads on start-up that would be nice.
Remove the menu bar and Previously on Lichess TV text. I originally attempted this with a Python script using Selenium and then again with a TamperMonkey script which worked well except at the end of the match where the page essentially reloads, they come back.

Update the stream description to mention who is playing. This involves detecting when the game finishes and hit an API call on Twitch.
Post in chat the link for the completed match so viewers can use the analysis tools from Lichess' website.

Enable the game sounds - Firefox has blocked them by default and I am not sure how to re-enable them without a mouse and interactive session.