Re: NEW: multimedia/streamlink && REMOVE x2: multimedia/livestreamer and multimedia/livestreamer-curses

On 07/02/17 21:46, Brian Callahan wrote:
>
>
> On 06/22/17 19:55, Brian Callahan wrote:
>> Hi ports --
>>
>> Attached is a new port, multimedia/streamlink. Streamlink is a Python
>> utility that lets you pipe video streams into a video player. It is a
>> fork of multimedia/livestreamer. Livestreamer is dead, streamlink is
>> the new livestreamer.
>>
>> ---
>> pkg/DESCR:
>> Streamlink is a command-line utility that pipes video streams from
>> various services into a video player, such as VLC. The main purpose of
>> Streamlink is to allow the user to avoid buggy and CPU heavy flash
>> plugins but still be able to enjoy various streamed content. There is
>> also an API available for developers who want access to the video stream
>> data. This project was forked from Livestreamer, which is no longer
>> maintained.
>>
>> Streamlink is built upon a plugin system which allows support for new
>> services to be easily added. Currently most of the big streaming
>> services are supported, such as:
>>
>> * Dailymotion
>> * Livestream
>> * Twitch
>> * UStream
>> * YouTube Live
>>
>> and many more.
>> ---
>>
>> This requires devel/py-iso3166 and devel/py-iso639 that were just
>> committed.
>>
>> I looked to see if it would be a simple diff to make
>> multimedia/livestreamer-curses work with streamlink. Someone appears
>> to have done the work but it looks like major surgery (and
>> livestreamer-curses might also be dead upstream) so I think it's
>> better to remove it.
>>
>> I think it makes sense for anyone who has livestreamer installed on
>> their system to get upgraded to streamlink.
>>
>> I'm watching a Twitch.tv stream on my laptop as I write this email,
>> so it definitely works.
>>
>> OK?
>>
>> ~Brian
>>
>
> Ping. Watching SGDQ on my laptop as I write this, so it's still good.
> (In any event, we should remove livestreamer, as it no longer supports
> all streaming services it claims to and will only support fewer and
> fewer as time goes on.)

Anyone? The new dependencies have been committed already.
Reattached.

~Brian