Hi ports --

Attached is a new port, multimedia/streamlink. Streamlink is a Python utility that lets you pipe video streams into a video player. It is a fork of multimedia/livestreamer. Livestreamer is dead, streamlink is the new livestreamer.

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pkg/DESCR:
Streamlink is a command-line utility that pipes video streams from
various services into a video player, such as VLC. The main purpose of
Streamlink is to allow the user to avoid buggy and CPU heavy flash
plugins but still be able to enjoy various streamed content. There is
also an API available for developers who want access to the video stream
data. This project was forked from Livestreamer, which is no longer
maintained.

Streamlink is built upon a plugin system which allows support for new
services to be easily added. Currently most of the big streaming
services are supported, such as:

* Dailymotion
* Livestream
* Twitch
* UStream
* YouTube Live

and many more.
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This requires devel/py-iso3166 and devel/py-iso639 that were just committed.

I looked to see if it would be a simple diff to make multimedia/livestreamer-curses work with streamlink. Someone appears to have done the work but it looks like major surgery (and livestreamer-curses might also be dead upstream) so I think it's better to remove it.

I think it makes sense for anyone who has livestreamer installed on their system to get upgraded to streamlink.

I'm watching a Twitch.tv stream on my laptop as I write this email, so it definitely works.

OK?

~Brian

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