What does HackerNews think of streamlink?
Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player
streamlink "https://twitch.tv/$streamer" best --twitch-disable-ads --player mpv
I can't remember what Firefox uses internally to decode/display different video codecs (ffmpeg like mpv? system builtins? hardware media encode/decode, like on the M1?), but I've always found that, through yt-dlp[3]/ streamlink[4] integration, a native external video player like mpv is better able to support high quality video streams without constantly dropping frames or tanking the performance of the tab/browser.
I can't put my finger on exactly why browser video streams feel so bad to me, but they do. Maybe it's the DOM overhead, or maybe it's something else. My personal takeaway is that browsers still just aren't optimized enough for fast/performant video playback.
[0]: https://mpv.io/
[1]: https://github.com/grmat/play-with
[2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-with/
My own personal donation methods total $15 from one person in the past 5 years since we forked the project and started maintaining it. We have more users than many start ups do and I know that there are several companies using our software.
[1]: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink [2]: https://opencollective.com/streamlink
It also doesn't work for team based projects. I'm one of the maintainers of Streamlink [1] which has members from around the world and we've been running various methods of donation since 2017 or so. In that time our Open Collective [2] has made about $1600 USD. We have over 50,000 users across all platforms (based on download stats as we don't collect any metrics in our apps so it's potentially higher) yet the entire amount we've collected is thanks to less than 100 people. We note the Open Collective on every release as well.
My own personal donation methods total $15 from one person in the past 5 years since we forked the project and started maintaining it. We have more users than many start ups do and I know that there are several companies using our software, but I haven't figured out how to make donations really work yet. How do we determine who should make what from a shared pool of money? How do you value a contribution, PR, etc., and most importantly how do you get users to actually pay without negatively impacting the project?
[1]: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink [2]: https://opencollective.com/streamlink