The problem isn't with current ffmpeg, it's with mplayer itself (on any OS). It can't "merge" the split twitch streams to play continuously. What happens with mplayer and twitch is that it plays the 1st 8 second stream, then pauses and buffers the 2nd stream, plays 8 seconds, then pauses, buffers, plays 8 seconds, etc etc. It's unwatchable. Even MPlayer2 (which eventually became mpv) from 2012 can play twitch seamlessly. I use mplayer2 on a lubuntu 12.04 ppc install, and ffplay on OS X 10.5.8 for twitch without issue. Mplayer is great for pretty much everything else though, and i'm happy a current version is available.

Cheers

[ Edited by wicknix 02.12.2020 - 21:27 ]