Stopped working with Twitch.tv

[computerquip]

No longer works with Twitch TV, prints "ERROR: rtmp server sent error", but still tries to load unsuccessfuly.

[chrippa]

It could just be a problem with the Twitch servers, I'm watching a stream right now without any problems. Could you give me the URL to the channel you're trying to play?

[mkaito]

I'm watching it too, works just fine.

[foshaug]

I am only getting: [flv @ 0x1020f1620] Unsupported video codec (0)
It appears to be streaming, but VLC can't play the stream.

[chrippa]

About the codec problem, does this happen on all stream qualities or only on "live"?
I believe the "live" quality on Twitch is the raw stream from the streamer himself and might be using an odd encoder, while others like "480p" etc, should be transcoded with a proper encoder by Twitch so they should always work in VLC. If not, then your ffmpeg or VLC might lack support to decode H264.

[foshaug]

This happens on all stream qualities.
I am currently using Mac OS X 10.7.3 and VLC media player 2.0.1
I have checked that VLC is able to play H.264 files on my machine.

I see the following output when running livestreamer. I manually quit VLC after no video was appearing...

air:~ gusto$ livestreamer http://www.twitch.tv/esltv_studio1_hd 360p
VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547)
RTMPDump v2.4
(c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL
Connecting ...
[0x10020a5a0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
INFO: Connected...
Starting Live Stream
INFO: Metadata:
INFO: duration 0.00
INFO: width 640.00
INFO: height 360.00
INFO: videodatarate 500.00
INFO: framerate 30.00
INFO: videocodecid 7.00
INFO: audiodatarate 92.77
INFO: audiosamplerate 44100.00
INFO: audiosamplesize 16.00
INFO: stereo TRUE
INFO: audiocodecid 10.00
INFO: encoder Lavf53.20.0
INFO: filesize 0.00
52.139 kB / 0.00 secTruncating packet of size 52995 to 689
[h264 @ 0x10093fa20] AVC: nal size 52991
[h264 @ 0x10093fa20] no frame!
7095.906 kB / 94.11 secTruncating packet of size 9291630 to 1
[h264 @ 0x10093fa20] no frame!
Truncating packet of size 5104178 to 1
[h264 @ 0x10093fa20] no frame!
[flv @ 0x102988820] Unsupported video codec (b)
Truncating packet of size 11389273 to 1
[h264 @ 0x10093fa20] no frame!
[flv @ 0x102988820] Unsupported video codec (c)
Truncating packet of size 13295366 to 1
[h264 @ 0x10093fa20] no frame!
[flv @ 0x102988820] Stream discovered after head already parsed
Truncating packet of size 5228715 to 1
Truncating packet of size 291 to 1
[aac @ 0x100940020] Input buffer exhausted before END element found
Truncating packet of size 13658996 to 1
[h264 @ 0x10093fa20] no frame!
Truncating packet of size 8635294 to 1
Truncating packet of size 698 to 1
[h264 @ 0x10093fa20] no frame!
Truncating packet of size 3959049 to 1
[h264 @ 0x10093fa20] no frame!
[flv @ 0x102988820] Unsupported video codec (a)
Truncating packet of size 8670358 to 1
[h264 @ 0x10093fa20] no frame!
[flv @ 0x102988820] decoding for stream 0 failed
[flv @ 0x102988820] Could not find codec parameters (Video: flashsv ([10][0][0][0] / 0x000A), 512 kb/s)
7112.711 kB / 94.38 sec
Caught signal: 13, cleaning up, just a second...
ERROR: Download: Failed writing, exiting!

[chrippa]

That's very odd. Does it make a difference if you output the stream to a file (livestreamer -o filename.flv) and then play it?
You could also try to play it in another player (like mplayer) with the -p parameter.
The stream you tried works for me in Arch Linux's VLC.

[foshaug]

Looks like there is an issue with OSX. (I tried on three different machines with various versions of VLC)

Now the good news,
Using the -o option VLC is able to play the file/stream.
I also installed mplayer (macports) and it is able to play streams using the -p option.
Thanks!