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Re:Introducing Twitch Creative by devit on Thursday October 29, 2015 @12:11PM (#10472129)
You can do "pip install livestreamer" to install livestreamer which will automatically open the Twitch HLS URLs in VLC or another media player of your choice.

Of course Twitch should support HTML5 video though, no idea why they aren't.

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Re:Introducing Twitch Creative by bryansum on Thursday October 29, 2015 @01:55PM (#10472940)
I'd assume because DASH is generally a newer spec, and HLS was driven by mobile usage
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Re:Introducing Twitch Creative by slimscsi on Thursday October 29, 2015 @04:00PM (#10473856)
Don't confuse DASH and HTML5. DASH was announced VERY shortly after HLS (within the same year). And both of these predate modern video on the web. HTML5 video does not play DASH anyway. MSE can play the same binary format as DASH, but that format was developed by microsoft for smooth streaming first.
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