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knille

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Registered: 2014-02-24

Posts: 28

[SOLVED] Streamlink Twitch GUI - streams not launching

hi everyone,

someone out there using "Streamlink Twitch GUI" from the AUR? since yesterdays updates of python-urllib3 and python-requests streams do not start anymore on my system using streamlink twitch GUI (both git and non-git versions). the GUI error message says:

Error: Couldn't launch the Stream
Unexpected Version check output

on the comand line the output is pretty similar:

[error][StreamingService]
Error: Unexpected version check output

using streamlink on command line works, e.g.

 streamlink -p vlc twitch.tv/<channel> best 

downgrading python-urllib3 from latest version 1.23-1 to 1.22-1 resolves the problem. compared to 1.22 version 1.23 of streamlink writes the following output:

/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/__init__.py:80: RequestsDependencyWarning: urllib3 (1.23) or chardet (3.0.4) doesn't match a supported version!
  RequestsDependencyWarning)

which is documented here https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/58878 and here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=237762.

maybe streamlink twitch GUI does not start streams if streamlink gives this (harmless?) errors. do you have an idea?

Last edited by knille (2018-06-06 18:44:17)

knille

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Registered: 2014-02-24

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED] Streamlink Twitch GUI - streams not launching

Some minutes ago python-requests was updated to 2.18.4-3 and that stops the python warnings and streamlink twitch GUI is streaming again.