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by luxflux 3776 days ago
Twitch is the only thing keeping Flash on my system, and as soon as they make the switch to HTML5 video I'll be uninstalling it completely.
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atomic_cheese 3776 days ago
If you use Livestreamer and an IRC client, you can run Twitch streams outside your browser. That's what I've been doing - I haven't had flash installed since that cross-platform RCE bug late last year.
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throwaway3289 3776 days ago
Add &html5 to the Twitch URL to force it to give you HTML5 instead of Flash.
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AlphaSite 3776 days ago
Twitch has run over HTML5 for the better part of a year (maybe longer).
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Survey_Sez 3776 days ago
The controls and chat were upgraded to HTML5 last year but the video will not be converted from Flash to HTML5 until Q2 this year.

This was one of the major announcements made during CEO's keynote at TwitchCon. http://blog.twitch.tv/2015/09/twitchcon-2015-keynote-product...

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Steko 3776 days ago
OS X and iOS streams use HLS (append /hls to url) and you can get the html5 video in various ways (append &html5 or [1]).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Kappa/comments/3l01q4/complete_twit...

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TD-Linux 3776 days ago
Livestreamer works well for Twitch.
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