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NAME

       streamlink - extracts streams from various services and pipes them into a video player of choice

TUTORIAL

       Streamlink  is  command-line  application,  this means the commands described here should be typed into a
       terminal. On Windows this means you should open the command prompt or PowerShell, on Mac OS  X  open  the
       Terminal app and if you're on Linux or BSD you probably already know the drill.

       The way Streamlink works is that it's only a means to extract and transport the streams, and the playback
       is done  by  an  external  video  player.  Streamlink  works  best  with  VLC  or  mpv,  which  are  also
       cross-platform, but other players may be compatible too, see the Players page for a complete overview.

       Now  to  get  into  actually  using  Streamlink,  let's  say  you  want  to  watch  the stream located on
       http://twitch.tv/day9tv, you start off by telling Streamlink where to attempt to  extract  streams  from.
       This is done by giving the URL to the command streamlink as the first argument:

          $ streamlink twitch.tv/day9tv
          [cli][info] Found matching plugin twitch for URL twitch.tv/day9tv
          Available streams: audio, high, low, medium, mobile (worst), source (best)

       NOTE:
          You  don't  need  to  include  the protocol when dealing with HTTP URLs, e.g. just twitch.tv/day9tv is
          enough and quicker to type.

       This command will tell Streamlink to attempt to extract streams from  the  URL  specified,  and  if  it's
       successful, print out a list of available streams to choose from.

       In some cases  (Supported streaming protocols)  local files are supported using the file:// protocol, for
       example a local HLS playlist can be played.  Relative file paths and absolute paths  are  supported.  All
       path separators are /, even on Windows.

          $ streamlink hlsvariant://file://C:/hls/playlist.m3u8
          [cli][info] Found matching plugin stream for URL hlsvariant://file://C:/hls/playlist.m3u8
          Available streams: 180p (worst), 272p, 408p, 554p, 818p, 1744p (best)

       To  select  a  stream  and  start  playback,  we  simply  add the stream name as a second argument to the
       streamlink command:

          $ streamlink twitch.tv/day9tv source
          [cli][info] Found matching plugin twitch for URL twitch.tv/day9tv
          [cli][info] Opening stream: source (hls)
          [cli][info] Starting player: vlc

       The stream you chose should now be playing in the player. It's a common use case to just want  start  the
       highest  quality  stream  and  not  be bothered with what it's named. To do this just specify best as the
       stream name and Streamlink will attempt to rank the streams and open the one of highest quality. You  can
       also specify worst to get the lowest quality.

       Now that you have a basic grasp of how Streamlink works, you may want to look into customizing it to your
       own needs, such as:

       • Creating a configuration file of options you want to use

       • Setting up your player to cache some data before playing the stream to help avoiding buffering issues

CONFIGURATION FILE

       Writing the command-line options every time is inconvenient, that's why Streamlink is capable of  reading
       options from a configuration file instead.

       Streamlink will look for config files in different locations depending on your platform:

                           ┌──────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                           │Platform          │ Location                                    │
                           ├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┤
                           │Unix-like (POSIX) │                                             │
                           │                  │        • $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/streamlink/config │
                           │                  │                                             │
                           │                  │        • ~/.streamlinkrc                    │
                           ├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┤
                           │Windows           │ %APPDATA%\streamlink\streamlinkrc           │
                           └──────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

       NOTE:
          Currently the Windows installer does not create the streamlinkrc file. This is  a  known  issue  being
          tracked here. An example configuration file is available in the repo.

       You can also specify the location yourself using the --config option.

       NOTE:$XDG_CONFIG_HOME is ~/.config if it has not been overridden

          • %APPDATA% is usually <your user directory>\Application Data

       NOTE:
          On  Windows  there  is  a  default  config created by the installer but on any other platform you must
          create the file yourself.

   Syntax
       The config file is a simple text file and should contain one command-line option  (omitting  the  dashes)
       per line in the format:

          option=value

       or for a option without value:

          option

       NOTE:
          Any  quotes  used  will be part of the value, so only use when the value needs them, e.g. specifying a
          player with a path containing spaces.

   Example
          # Player options
          player=mpv --cache 2048
          player-no-close

          # Authenticate with Twitch
          twitch-oauth-token=mytoken

PLUGIN SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION FILE

       You may want to use specific options for some plugins only. This can be  accomplished  by  placing  those
       settings  inside  a plugin specific config file. Options inside these config files will override the main
       config file when a URL matching the plugin is used.

       Streamlink expects this config to be named like the main config but with .<plugin name> attached  to  the
       end.

   Examples
                       ┌──────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                       │Platform          │ Location                                           │
                       └──────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

                       │Unix-like (POSIX) │                                                    │
                       │                  │        • $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/streamlink/config.twitch │
                       │                  │                                                    │
                       │                  │        • ~/.streamlinkrc.ustreamtv                 │
                       ├──────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
                       │Windows           │ %APPDATA%\streamlink\streamlinkrc.youtube          │
                       └──────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

       Have a look at the list of plugins to see the name of each built-in plugin.

PLUGIN SPECIFIC USAGE

   Authenticating with Twitch
       It's possible to access subscription content on Twitch by giving Streamlink access to your account.

       Authentication is done by creating an OAuth token that Streamlink will use to access your  account.  It's
       done like this:

          $ streamlink --twitch-oauth-authenticate

       This  will  open  a  web  browser  where Twitch will ask you if you want to give Streamlink permission to
       access your account, then forwards you to a page with further instructions on how to use it.

   Authenticating with Crunchyroll
       Crunchyroll requires authenticating with a premium account to access some of their content. To do so, the
       plugin   provides   a   couple   of   options  to  input  your  information,  --crunchyroll-username  and
       --crunchyroll-password.

       You can login like this:

          $ streamlink --crunchyroll-username=xxxx --crunchyroll-password=xxx http://crunchyroll.com/a-crunchyroll-episode-link

       NOTE:
          If you omit the password, streamlink will ask for it.

       Once logged in, the plugin makes sure to save the session credentials to avoid asking your  username  and
       password again.

       Nevertheless,  these  credentials  are  valid for a limited amount of time, so it might be a good idea to
       save your username and password in your configuration file anyway.

       WARNING:
          The API this plugin uses isn't supposed to be available to use it on computers. The  plugin  tries  to
          blend  in  as  a  valid  device  using  custom  headers and following the API usual flow (e.g. reusing
          credentials), but this does not assure that your account will be safe from being spotted  for  unusual
          behavior.

   HTTP proxy with Crunchyroll
       You  can  use  the  --http-proxy  and  --https-proxy  options  (you  need both since the plugin uses both
       protocols) to access the Crunchyroll servers through a proxy to be able to stream region locked content.

       When doing this, it's very probable that you will get denied to access the stream;  this  occurs  because
       the  session  and credentials used by the plugin where obtained when logged from your own region, and the
       server still assumes you're in that region.

       For this, the plugin provides  the  --crunchyroll-purge-credentials  option,  which  removes  your  saved
       session and credentials and tries to log in again using your username and password.

SIDELOADING PLUGINS

       Streamlink will attempt to load standalone plugins from these directories:

                               ┌──────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐
                               │Platform          │ Location                            │
                               ├──────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
                               │Unix-like (POSIX) │ $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/streamlink/plugins │
                               └──────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘

                               │Windows           │ %APPDATA%\streamlink\plugins        │
                               └──────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘

       NOTE:
          If  a  plugin  is  added  with  the  same  name  as  a built-in plugin then the added plugin will take
          precedence. This is useful if you want to upgrade plugins independently of the Streamlink version.

PLAYING BUILT-IN STREAMING PROTOCOLS DIRECTLY

       There are many types of streaming protocols used by services today and Streamlink supports most of  them.
       It's  possible  to tell Streamlink to access a streaming protocol directly instead of relying on a plugin
       to extract the streams from a URL for you.

       A protocol can be accessed directly by specifying it in the URL format:

          protocol://path [key=value]

       Accessing a stream that requires extra parameters to be passed along (e.g. RTMP):

          $ streamlink "rtmp://streaming.server.net/playpath live=1 swfVfy=http://server.net/flashplayer.swf"

       When passing parameters to the built-in stream plugins  the  values  will  either  be  treated  as  plain
       strings,  as is the case in the above example for swfVry, or they will be interpreted as Python literals.
       For example you can pass a Python dict or Python list as one of the parameters.

          $ streamlink "rtmp://streaming.server.net/playpath conn=['B:1', 'S:authMe', 'O:1', 'NN:code:1.23', 'NS:flag:ok', 'O:0']"
          $ streamlink "hls://streaming.server.net/playpath params={'token': 'magicToken'}"

       In the above examples conn will be passed as the Python list:

          ['B:1', 'S:authMe', 'O:1', 'NN:code:1.23', 'NS:flag:ok', 'O:0']

       and params will be passed as the Python dict:

          {'token': 'magicToken'}

       Most streaming technologies simply requires you to pass a HTTP URL, this is a Adobe HDS stream:

          $ streamlink hds://streaming.server.net/playpath/manifest.f4m

   Supported streaming protocols
                        ┌─────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┐
                        │Name                         │ Prefix                                │
                        ├─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
                        │Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming │ hds://                                │
                        ├─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
                        │Akamai HD Adaptive Streaming │ akamaihd://                           │
                        ├─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
                        │Apple HTTP Live Streaming    │ hls:// hlsvariant:// [1]              │
                        ├─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
                        │Real Time Messaging Protocol │ rtmp://  rtmpe://  rtmps://  rtmpt:// │
                        │                             │ rtmpte://                             │
                        ├─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
                        │Progressive HTTP, HTTPS, etc │ httpstream:// [1]                     │
                        └─────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────┘

       [1]  supports local files using the file:// protocol

PROXY SUPPORT

       You  can  use  the --http-proxy and --https-proxy options to change the proxy server that Streamlink will
       use for HTTP and HTTPS requests respectively.  As HTTP and HTTPS requests  can  be  handled  by  separate
       proxies, you may need to specify both options if the plugin you use makes HTTP and HTTPS requests.

       Both HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies are supported, authentication is supported for both types.

       For example:

          $ streamlink --http-proxy "http://user:pass@10.10.1.10:3128/" --https-proxy "socks5://10.10.1.10:1242"

COMMAND-LINE USAGE

          $ streamlink [OPTIONS] <URL> [STREAM]

   Positional arguments
       URL    A URL to attempt to extract streams from.

              Usually, the protocol of http(s) URLs can be omitted ("https://"), depending on the implementation
              of the plugin being used.

              Alternatively, the URL can also be specified by using the --url option.

       STREAM Stream to play.

              Use "best" or "worst" for selecting the highest or lowest available quality.

              Fallback streams can be specified by using a comma-separated list:

                 "720p,480p,best"

              If no stream is specified and --default-stream is not used, then a list of available streams  will
              be printed.

   General options
       -h, --help
              Show this help message and exit.

       -V, --version
              Show version number and exit.

       --plugins
              Print a list of all currently installed plugins.

       --can-handle-url URL
              Check if Streamlink has a plugin that can handle the specified URL.

              Returns status code 1 for false and 0 for true.

              Useful for external scripting.

       --can-handle-url-no-redirect URL
              Same as --can-handle-url but without following redirects when looking up the URL.

       --config FILENAME
              Load options from this config file.

              Can  be repeated to load multiple files, in which case the options are merged on top of each other
              where the last config has highest priority.

       -l LEVEL, --loglevel LEVEL
              Set the log message threshold.

              Valid levels are: none, error, warning, info, debug

       -Q, --quiet
              Hide all log output.

              Alias for "--loglevel none".

       -j, --json
              Output JSON representations instead of the normal text output.

              Useful for external scripting.

       --auto-version-check {yes,true,1,on,no,false,0,off}
              Unused, kept for compatibility reasons.

              Default is: "no".

       --version-check
              Runs a version check and exits.

       --locale LOCALE
              The preferred locale setting, for selecting the preferred subtitle and audio language.

              The locale is formatted as [language_code]_[country_code], eg. en_US or es_ES.

              Default is: system locale.

   Player options
       -p COMMAND, --player COMMAND
              Player to feed stream data to. By default, VLC will be used if it can  be  found  in  its  default
              location.

              This is a shell-like syntax to support using a specific player:

                 streamlink --player=vlc <url> <quality>

              Absolute or relative paths can also be passed via this option in the event the player's executable
              can not be resolved:

                 streamlink --player=/path/to/vlc <url> <quality>
                 streamlink --player=./vlc-player/vlc <url> <quality>

              To use a player that is located in a path with spaces you must quote the parameter or its value:

                 streamlink "--player=/path/with spaces/vlc" <url> <quality>
                 streamlink --player "C:\path\with spaces\mpc-hc64.exe" <url> <quality>

              Options may also be passed to the player. For example:

                 streamlink --player "vlc --file-caching=5000" <url> <quality>

              As an alternative to this, see the --player-args parameter, which does not log any  custom  player
              arguments.

       -a ARGUMENTS, --player-args ARGUMENTS
              This option allows you to customize the default arguments which are put together with the value of
              --player to create a command to execute. Unlike the --player parameter,  custom  player  arguments
              will not be logged.

              This  value  can  contain formatting variables surrounded by curly braces, { and }. If you need to
              include a brace character, it can be escaped by doubling, e.g. {{ and }}.

              Formatting variables available:

              filename
                     This is the filename that the player will use.  It's usually "-" (stdin), but can also be a
                     URL or a file depending on the options used.

              It's  usually  enough  to  use --player instead of this unless you need to add arguments after the
              filename.

              Default is: "{filename}".

              Example:

                 streamlink -p vlc -a "--play-and-exit {filename}" <url> <quality>

       -v, --verbose-player
              Allow the player to display its console output.

       -n, --player-fifo, --fifo
              Make the player read the stream through a named pipe instead of the stdin pipe.

       --player-http
              Make the player read the stream through HTTP instead of the stdin pipe.

       --player-continuous-http
              Make the player read the stream through HTTP, but unlike --player-http it will continuously try to
              open the stream if the player requests it.

              This makes it possible to handle stream disconnects if your player is capable of reconnecting to a
              HTTP stream. This is usually done by setting your player to a "repeat mode".

       --player-external-http
              Serve stream data through HTTP without running any  player.  This  is  useful  to  allow  external
              devices like smartphones or streaming boxes to watch streams they wouldn't be able to otherwise.

              Behavior will be similar to the continuous HTTP option, but no player program will be started, and
              the server will listen on all available connections  instead  of  just  in  the  local  (loopback)
              interface.

              The  URLs that can be used to access the stream will be printed to the console, and the server can
              be interrupted using CTRL-C.

       --player-external-http-port PORT
              A fixed port to use for the external HTTP server if that mode is enabled.  Omit or set to 0 to use
              a random high (>1024) port.

       --player-passthrough TYPES
              A  comma-delimited  list  of  stream  types  to  pass  to the player as a URL to let it handle the
              transport of the stream instead.

              Stream types that can be converted into a playable URL are:

              • hls

              • http

              • rtmp

              Make sure your player can handle the stream type when using this.

       --player-no-close
              By default Streamlink will close the player when the stream ends.  This is  to  avoid  "dead"  GUI
              players lingering after a stream ends.

              It  does  however have the side-effect of sometimes closing a player before it has played back all
              of its cached data.

              This option will instead let the player decide when to exit.

   File output options
       -o FILENAME, --output FILENAME
              Write stream data to FILENAME instead of playing it.

              You will be prompted if the file already exists.

       -f, --force
              When using -o, always write to file even if it already exists.

       -O, --stdout
              Write stream data to stdout instead of playing it.

   Stream options
       --url URL
              A URL to attempt to extract streams from.

              Usually, the protocol of http(s) URLs can be omitted (https://), depending on  the  implementation
              of the plugin being used.

              This  is an alternative to setting the URL using a positional argument and can be useful if set in
              a config file.

       --default-stream STREAM
              Stream to play.

              Use "best" or "worst" for selecting the highest or lowest available quality.

              Fallback streams can be specified by using a comma-separated list:

                 "720p,480p,best"

              This is an alternative to setting the stream using a positional argument and can be useful if  set
              in a config file.

       --retry-streams DELAY
              Will  retry  fetching  streams  until streams are found while waiting DELAY (seconds) between each
              attempt.

       --retry-open ATTEMPTS
              Will try ATTEMPTS times to open the stream until giving up.

              Default is: 1.

       --stream-types TYPES, --stream-priority TYPES
              A comma-delimited list of stream types to allow.

              The order will be used to separate streams when there are multiple streams with the same name  but
              different  stream  types.  Any  stream  type not listed will be omitted from the available streams
              list.  A * can be used as a wildcard to match any other type of stream, eg. muxed-stream.

              Default is: "rtmp,hls,hds,http,akamaihd,*".

       --stream-sorting-excludes STREAMS
              Fine tune best/worst synonyms by excluding unwanted streams.

              Uses a filter expression in the format:

                 [operator]<value>

              Valid operators are >, >=, < and <=. If no operator is specified then equality is tested.

              For example this will exclude streams ranked higher than "480p":

                 ">480p"

              Multiple filters can be used by separating each expression with a comma.

              For example this will exclude streams from two quality types:

                 ">480p,>medium"

   Stream transport options
       --hds-live-edge SECONDS
              The time live HDS streams will start from the edge of stream.

              Default is: 10.0.

       --hds-segment-attempts ATTEMPTS
              How many attempts should be done to download each HDS segment before giving up.

              Default is: 3.

       --hds-segment-threads THREADS
              The size of the thread pool used to download HDS segments.  Minimum value is 1 and maximum is 10.

              Default is: 1.

       --hds-segment-timeout TIMEOUT
              HDS segment connect and read timeout.

              Default is: 10.0.

       --hds-timeout TIMEOUT
              Timeout for reading data from HDS streams.

              Default is: 60.0.

       --hls-live-edge SEGMENTS
              How many segments from the end to start live HLS streams on.

              The lower the value the lower latency from the source you will be, but also increases  the  chance
              of buffering.

              Default is: 3.

       --hls-segment-attempts ATTEMPTS
              How many attempts should be done to download each HLS segment before giving up.

              Default is: 3.

       --hls-playlist-reload-attempts ATTEMPTS
              How many attempts should be done to reload the HLS playlist before giving up.

              Default is: 3.

       --hls-segment-threads THREADS
              The size of the thread pool used to download HLS segments.  Minimum value is 1 and maximum is 10.

              Default is: 1.

       --hls-segment-timeout TIMEOUT
              HLS segment connect and read timeout.

              Default is: 10.0.

       --hls-audio-select CODE
              Selects a specific audio source, by language code, when multiple audio sources are available.

              NOTE:
                 This is only useful in special circumstances where the regular locale option fails.

       --hls-timeout TIMEOUT
              Timeout for reading data from HLS streams.

              Default is: 60.0.

       --hls-start-offset HH:MM:SS
              Amount  of  time  to  skip from the beginning of the stream.  For live streams, this is a negative
              offset from the end of the stream.

              Default is: 00:00:00.

       --hls-duration HH:MM:SS
              Limit the playback duration, useful for watching segments of a stream. The actual duration may  be
              slightly longer, as it is rounded to the nearest HLS segment.

              Has no effect on live streams.

              Default is: unlimited.

       --hls-live-restart
              Skip to the beginning of a live stream, or as far back as possible.

       --http-stream-timeout TIMEOUT
              Timeout for reading data from HTTP streams.

              Default is: 60.0.

       --ringbuffer-size SIZE
              The  maximum  size  of  ringbuffer.  Add  a M or K suffix to specify mega or kilo bytes instead of
              bytes.

              The ringbuffer is used as a temporary storage between the stream and the player. This is to allows
              us to download the stream faster than the player wants to read it.

              The  smaller  the size, the higher chance of the player buffering if there are download speed dips
              and the higher size the more data we can use as a storage to catch up from speed dips.

              It also allows you to temporary pause as long as the ringbuffer doesn't get full since we continue
              to download the stream in the background.

              NOTE:
                 A  smaller  size is recommended on lower end systems (such as Raspberry Pi) when playing stream
                 types that require some  extra  processing  (such  as  HDS)  to  avoid  unnecessary  background
                 processing.

                 Default is: "16M".

       --rtmp-proxy PROXY, --rtmpdump-proxy PROXY
              A SOCKS proxy that RTMP streams will use.

              Example: 127.0.0.1:9050

       --rtmp-rtmpdump FILENAME, --rtmpdump FILENAME, -r FILENAME
              RTMPDump  is  used to access RTMP streams. You can specify the location of the rtmpdump executable
              if it is not in your PATH.

              Example: "/usr/local/bin/rtmpdump"

       --rtmp-timeout TIMEOUT
              Timeout for reading data from RTMP streams.

              Default is: 60.0.

       --stream-segment-attempts ATTEMPTS
              How many attempts should be done to download each segment before giving up.

              This is generic option used by streams not covered by other  options,  such  as  stream  protocols
              specific to plugins, e.g. UStream.

              Default is: 3.

       --stream-segment-threads THREADS
              The size of the thread pool used to download segments.  Minimum value is 1 and maximum is 10.

              This  is  generic  option  used  by streams not covered by other options, such as stream protocols
              specific to plugins, e.g. UStream.

              Default is: 1.

       --stream-segment-timeout TIMEOUT
              Segment connect and read timeout.

              This is generic option used by streams not covered by other  options,  such  as  stream  protocols
              specific to plugins, e.g. UStream.

              Default is: 10.0.

       --stream-timeout TIMEOUT
              Timeout for reading data from streams.

              This  is  generic  option  used  by streams not covered by other options, such as stream protocols
              specific to plugins, e.g. UStream.

              Default is: 60.0.

       --stream-url
              If possible, translate the stream to a URL and print it.

       --subprocess-cmdline, --cmdline, -c
              Print the command-line used internally to play the stream.

              This is only available on RTMP streams.

       --subprocess-errorlog, --errorlog, -e
              Log possible errors from internal subprocesses to a temporary file.  The file  will  be  saved  in
              your systems temporary directory.

              Useful when debugging rtmpdump related issues.

       --subprocess-errorlog-path PATH, --errorlog-path PATH
              Log  the  subprocess  errorlog  to a specific file rather than a temporary file.  Takes precedence
              over subprocess-errorlog.

              Useful when debugging rtmpdump related issues.

       --ffmpeg-ffmpeg FILENAME
              FFMPEG is used to access or mux separate video and audio streams.  You can specify the location of
              the ffmpeg executable if it is not in your PATH.

              Example: "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg"

       --ffmpeg-verbose
              Write the console output from ffmpeg to the console.

       --ffmpeg-verbose-path PATH
              Path to write the output from the ffmpeg console.

       --ffmpeg-video-transcode CODEC
              When muxing streams transcode the video to this CODEC.

              Default is: "copy".

              Example: "h264"

       --ffmpeg-audio-transcode CODEC
              When muxing streams transcode the audio to this CODEC.

              Default is: "copy".

              Example: "aac"

   HTTP options
       --http-proxy HTTP_PROXY
              A HTTP proxy to use for all HTTP requests.

              Example: "http://hostname:port/"

       --https-proxy HTTPS_PROXY
              A HTTPS capable proxy to use for all HTTPS requests.

              Example: "https://hostname:port/"

       --http-cookie KEY=VALUE
              A cookie to add to each HTTP request.

              Can be repeated to add multiple cookies.

       --http-header KEY=VALUE
              A header to add to each HTTP request.

              Can be repeated to add multiple headers.

       --http-query-param KEY=VALUE
              A query parameter to add to each HTTP request.

              Can be repeated to add multiple query parameters.

       --http-ignore-env
              Ignore  HTTP  settings  set  in the environment such as environment variables (HTTP_PROXY, etc) or
              ~/.netrc authentication.

       --http-no-ssl-verify
              Don't attempt to verify SSL certificates.

              Usually a bad idea, only use this if you know what you're doing.

       --http-disable-dh
              Disable Diffie Hellman key exchange

              Usually a bad idea, only use this if you know what you're doing.

       --http-ssl-cert FILENAME
              SSL certificate to use.

              Expects a .pem file.

       --http-ssl-cert-crt-key CRT_FILENAME KEY_FILENAME
              SSL certificate to use.

              Expects a .crt and a .key file.

       --http-timeout TIMEOUT
              General timeout used by all HTTP requests except the ones covered by other options.

              Default is: 20.0.

   Plugin options
       --plugin-dirs DIRECTORY
              Attempts to load plugins from these directories.

              Multiple directories can be used by separating them with a semicolon.

       --twitch-oauth-token TOKEN
              An OAuth token to use for Twitch authentication.   Use  --twitch-oauth-authenticate  to  create  a
              token.

       --twitch-oauth-authenticate
              Open  a  web  browser where you can grant Streamlink access to your Twitch account which creates a
              token for use with --twitch-oauth-token.

       --twitch-cookie COOKIES
              Twitch cookies to authenticate to allow access to subscription channels.

              Example:

                 "_twitch_session_id=xxxxxx; persistent=xxxxx"

              NOTE:
                 This  method  is  the   old   and   clunky   way   of   authenticating   with   Twitch,   using
                 --twitch-oauth-authenticate is the recommended and simpler way of doing it now.

       --twitch-disable-hosting
              Do not open the stream if the target channel is hosting another channel.

       --ustream-password PASSWORD
              A password to access password protected UStream.tv channels.

       --crunchyroll-username USERNAME
              A Crunchyroll username to allow access to restricted streams.

       --crunchyroll-password [PASSWORD]
              A Crunchyroll password for use with --crunchyroll-username.

              If left blank you will be prompted.

       --crunchyroll-purge-credentials
              Purge cached Crunchyroll credentials to initiate a new session and reauthenticate.

       --crunchyroll-session-id SESSION_ID
              Set a specific session ID for crunchyroll, can be used to bypass region restrictions.

       --btv-username USERNAME
              A BTV username required to access any stream.

       --btv-password PASSWORD
              A BTV account password to use with --btv-username.

       --schoolism-email EMAIL
              The email associated with your Schoolism account, required to access any Schoolism stream.

       --schoolism-password PASSWORD
              A Schoolism account password to use with --schoolism-email.

       --schoolism-part PART
              Play part number PART of the lesson.

              Defaults is 1.

       --daisuki-mux-subtitles
              Automatically mux available subtitles in to the output stream.

       --rtve-mux-subtitles
              Automatically mux available subtitles in to the output stream.

       --funimation-language
              The audio language to use for Funimation streams; japanese or english.

              Default is: "english".

       --funimation-mux-subtitles
              Enable automatically including available subtitles in to the output stream.

       --tvplayer-email EMAIL
              The email address used to register with tvplayer.com.

       --tvplayer-password PASSWORD
              A TVPlayer account password to use with --tvplayer-email.

       --pluzz-mux-subtitles
              Automatically mux available subtitles in to the output stream.

       --wwenetwork-email EMAIL
              The email associated with your WWE Network account, required to access any WWE Network stream.

       --wwenetwork-password PASSWORD
              A WWE Network account password to use with --wwenetwork-email.

       --animelab-email EMAIL
              The email address used to register with animelab.com.

       --animelab-password PASSWORD
              A TVPlayer account password to use with --animelab-email.

       --npo-subtitles
              Include subtitles for the deaf or hard of hearing, if available.

       --liveedu-email EMAIL
              The email address used to register with liveedu.tv.

       --liveedu-password PASSWORD
              A LiveEdu account password to use with --liveedu-email.

       --bbciplayer-username USERNAME
              The username used to register with bbc.co.uk.

       --bbciplayer-password PASSWORD
              A bbc.co.uk account password to use with --bbciplayer-username.

       --neulion-username USERNAME, --ufctv-username USERNAME
              The username used to register with your neulion provider.

       --neulion-password PASSWORD, --ufctv-password PASSWORD
              A neulion provider account password to use with --neulion-username.

       --zattoo-email EMAIL
              The email associated with your zattoo account, required to access any zattoo stream.

       --zattoo-password PASSWORD
              A zattoo account password to use with --zattoo-email.

       --zattoo-purge-credentials
              Purge cached zattoo credentials to initiate a new session and reauthenticate.

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