Stream Launch Delay

[fuguesoft]

So I don't know how to title this but it has nothing to do with the stream itself being delayed or laggy.

Sometimes I forget to refresh the "followed live streams" page before clicking a stream and it unsurprisingly doesn't launch. I'll forget I did that, refresh and launch an actual live stream from someone else and go about my day generally leaving streamlink open on my computer.

The next day, when that first choice does indeed go live, streamlink will launch mpv at that time. Having forgotten that I clicked that, it can be disorienting and I initially thought streamlink was launching streams without my input.

This could be considered a feature though depending on how you look at it.

[bastimeyer]

Sometimes I forget to refresh the "followed live streams" page

Enable "Refresh Content" in the "GUI" settings menu.

Attempting to open a stream that's offline due to the GUI page contents being outdated is your own problem. The GUI has an indicator at the top for how many instances of Streamlink are currently running. If you've set the "Retry delay" option in the "Streaming" settings menu to a value greater than 0, then Streamlink will retry launching the requested stream in a loop until it goes online.

All you've described can easily be changed.

[fuguesoft]

Thanks for the response

I've had Refresh Content set to 5 minutes as I found the lower settings annoying.
This is generally how I use streamlink: https://0x0.st/KtC1.mp4

So sometimes when that list hasn't updated, I'll click or missclick on a stream and then realize "oh they're not even on right now"
Then I'll Shift K to refresh and go on about my business.

The retry delay can come in useful in other instances like when a stream drops.
It's not really that big a deal, at the end of the day, it's twitch

[bastimeyer]

This is generally how I use streamlink

Just watched for a few secs because I'm not really interested, but what are you expecting when using a TWM that cuts off parts of the application window? As said, there's an indicator at the top for the number of running Streamlink instances.

[fuguesoft]

At the end of the day it's not a big deal at all.
Thanks for the software