Trouble loading twitch streams using iceweasel

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Hello everyone,

I recently changed my OS from win7 to Debian, and am having some trouble loading twitch streams using iceweasel.

I can access twitch perfectly fine and browsing on the site is at normal speed but when I try to load a stream it stays indefinetly loading (saying loading video...) and the video never starts however I can both connect to the chat and load ads perfectly.

I have contacted twitch support and their answer was to try to watch it under incognito mode, which had the same result.

The troubleling thing is that sometimes very rarely the stream does load, but I can not associate it with anything in particular, any ideias on what is going on?

Thanks in advance.

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I am not sure if IceWeasel has flash in it or not.
I don't use IceWeasel but I have tho, so if iceweasel is the way it was when I used it, I am pretty sure you have to install a flash plug in for it to work.
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree should do the trick I think.

Twitch is being a bit slow (or behind to put it nicely) :P are sticking with flash, but I view twitch through livestreamer and VLC so if you are interested it is : sudo apt-get install livestreamer and you open it through console

it's just a recommendation :)

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I have the plugin installed, will try watching through VLC thanks.

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no problem the instructions are on git but if they are vague I can type em out in here.
you install it then open up a terminal window unless you have a drop down terminal either or.
then just type:
livestreamer twitch.tv/[the channel] [transcoding option] --player vlc

without brackets ofc lawl :P:D

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got the livestreamer thingy working?

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Got it to work, using the apt-get install I could only install version 1.10 and it was not working.
Had to do this afterward (found it on git):

sudo apt-get remove livestreamer
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install -U livestreamer

Now it work fine, thanks for the suggestion.

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oh yeah I thought they fixed that I did the pip install as well..
I don't understand why twitch are so derpy and sticking with flash D: ..

anywho, great ! enjoy twitch in VLC it is a lot nicer imo , and you can use it for many other things then just twitch. :D

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For any video stream right?

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they are working on it, but most larger sites it should work.
I should try it for something else then twitch and hitbox .. I have used it from ustream twice :P

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http://docs.livestreamer.io/plugin_matrix.html#plugin-matrix
that seems to be all but it is alot ! happy stream viewing glad I could help :)

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Thanks once again, got to love this community :D

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iceweasel is usealy a very old vershon of fire fox (it was the last time i used it) have you tryed chromium its useualy much more uptodate and supported better than iceweasel (just so you dont get any more problems down the line)

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I did try chromium but it does not support flash player plugin.