Watch Twitch streams on 10.5 Leopard

Who says you can't do modern things on old powerpc machines? This is how you can watch Twitch streams on Leopard. You'll more than likely need a higher end 1.42ghz or better G4 minimum, but i recommend a G5.

Grab yourself macports (macports.org) and build mpv. Sadly the only video output available in the leopard port is X11, so cpu use will be kind of high, and full screen isn't available.

Download the last XQuartz (x11 update) for leopard:
https://www.xquartz.org/releases/XQuartz-2.6.3.html

Grab yourself the latest youtube-dl: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html
Don't forget to make it executable. E.G: chmod a+x youtube-dl
As root move youtube-dl to /usr/local/bin

Open your web browser (i'm using iceweasel-ppc) and go to https://m.twitch.tv
Navigate to the channel/stream you want and click on it to join the chat room.
The video will fail to load, this is where youtube-dl and mpv come in.
Open Terminal.app and type: mpv --ytdl-format=360p https://twitch.tv/name_of_stream
(--ytdl-format can be 160p/360p/480p or 720p depending on your system specs)


The above image is from my Dual CPU 2ghz G5 w/4gb ram
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Optionally you can modify your VLC.app seen here:  https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/playing-youtube-via-vlc.2191901/
Then grab this nifty script i whipped up to use native VLC rather than the heavier x11 based mpv: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/twitch-on-ppc-why-yes-we-can.2193929/?post=28025617#post-28025617

Happy streaming!
 

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