Request: Embed Twitch.tv live stream into OP's of a topic

[hollowichi1931]

There are several people on my Forum who livestream with Twitch.tv, and it would be cool if they could watch the stream without having to open up the website. It also serves as an easy way to check if that person is online or offline.

[Chris]

Outdated Information:

Proboards has since added twitch.tv as an official option in the available video embedders and twitch has updated their default player so the information in this post is outdated and no longer accurate

May 6, 2014 22:40:50 GMT -8 hollowichi1931 said:

There are several people on my Forum who livestream with Twitch.tv, and it would be cool if they could watch the stream without having to open up the website. It also serves as an easy way to check if that person is online or offline.

Since Proboards video supports video not only by site but also by generic type this can actually be accomplished without a plugin, although a bit convoluted...

1. grab the embed code of the video you wish to embed in a Proboards post
   
2. You'll then need to extract some info from that embed code in order to create an url that Proboards video will recognize. I'll use the following game feed as an example

   <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="378" width="620" id="live_embed_player_flash" data="http://www.twitch.tv/widgets/live_embed_player.swf?channel=tsm_dyrus" bgcolor="#000000">
   <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
   <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />
   <param name="allowNetworking" value="all" />
   <param name="movie" value="http://www.twitch.tv/widgets/live_embed_player.swf" />
   <param name="flashvars" value="hostname=www.twitch.tv&channel=tsm_dyrus&auto_play=true&start_volume=25" />
   </object>
   <a href="http://www.twitch.tv/tsm_dyrus" style="padding:2px 0px 4px; display:block; width:345px; font-weight:normal; font-size:10px;text-decoration:underline; text-align:center;">Watch live video from TSM_Dyrus on www.twitch.tv</a>

   
   
   I've highlighted the data in that embed code that we'll use to create an url
   
   
   
3. Take the "movie" value and add a "?" at the end then add the "flashvars" value
   http://www.twitch.tv/widgets/live_embed_player.swf?hostname=www.twitch.tv&channel=tsm_dyrus&auto_play=true&start_volume=25
   
   
   
4. In order to get Proboards to recognize it as a type of format it supports we add a dummy param of _=.mp4 giving us a final url of http://www.twitch.tv/widgets/live_embed_player.swf?hostname=www.twitch.tv&channel=tsm_dyrus&auto_play=true&start_volume=25&_.mp4
   
   which we then take and input that into the (insert video) function on Proboards. That will give you the following video code [video src="http://www.twitch.tv/widgets/live_embed_player.swf?hostname=www.twitch.tv&channel=tsm_dyrus&auto_play=true&start_volume=25&_=.mp4"][/video]

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Edit: I just noticed that the example stream I used says 5 hours so might be expired by the time you read this so here is a screen shot

[hollowichi1931]

Thank you so much