Livestreamer

Livestreamer is a CLI tool that pipes video streams from services like twitch.tv into a video player. A full list of the video players supported can be found here. Dailymotion, Livestream, Twitch, Ustream, and YouTube Live are all supported without add-ons.

Overlay
For now. Livestreamer is accessible in the Pamler overlay:

or

USE flags
USE flags will be present once the package is available in the main ebuild repository.

Emerge
Once the overlay is installed:

Usage
Using livestreamer to watch a favorite stream is fairly simple. Use the following command and adjust the options as needed:

Where  is the selected player. The default player is, but other players such as or  can be used as well. Livestreamer should be able to locate the player by the name, but the full path to the player can be used as well.

is the location of the stream to watch. In all cases,  can be omitted, and in some cases   can be omitted as well.

is a text value that defines the stream's quality. For some streams it can be from  to   and for others it is a different scale. For Twitch, values include:,  ,  ,  ,  , and.