any variable other than {name} doesn't work with "--sout" in VLC about streamlink-twitch-gui

[bastimeyer]

Launch the Twitch GUI with the --loglevel=debug argument and check the player command line that's built when launching a stream
https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui/wiki/Parameters

[moswald14]

running it with just {online} (still stuttering) yields:
[2023-08-05T19:54:05.291Z][debug][StreamingService] Spawning process { "exec": "E:\\Streamlink\\bin\\streamlinkw.exe", "params": [ "--twitch-disable-ads", "--webbrowser", "true", "--webbrowser-headless", "true", "--player", "C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe", "--player-args", "--sout=\"#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=4096,ab=128,deinterlace}:standard{access=file,mux=ts,dst='D:\\TwitchStreams\\Sat Aug 05 2023 08:48:33 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time).mpg}'\" --no-one-instance --play-and-exit", "--retry-open", "1", "--retry-streams", "1", "twitch.tv/dansgaming", "best" ], "env": null }

[bastimeyer]

I don't see any problems with the player arguments which the Twitch GUI generates from the variables you've set.

If you're having issues with your video player, then I can't help and you'll need to resolve them on your own.

Why are you even re-encoding the stream? Then you don't have to wonder if you're having performance issues. This is out of scope of Streamlink and Streamlink Twitch GUI. You're on your own here.

[moswald14]

just trying to record streams to save locally, is there a way to do this without VLC?
thanks for your quick replies!

[bastimeyer]

https://streamlink.github.io/cli.html#file-output-options

If you want to record, then don't re-encode, just remux. Check the VLC docs if you don't want to use Streamlink for that. Streamlink Twitch GUI is not designed with recording in mind.