Twitch is telling me when I go onto my broadcast settings:
Twitch Broadcast Settings Unavailable
unable to load the libraries needed for the integrated Twitch
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It's not up to Mojang, it's up to Twitch, they haven't released any Linux libraries, and only certain Mac OSes are supported. Feel free to head over to http://www.twitch.tv and let them know you want it.
Just ignore the slash outs I don't know how to get rid of them in my post.
Twitch does work great with Linux so don't believe what Tails or Talven81 posted. It is just that Minecraft and Mojang have not seen how easy it is for us Linux guys to stream with Linux and it should be very easy for Mojang to code it into Minecraft to do it.
Anyway as a work around until Mojang gets up to speed.
>>>> You will need avconv installed to make this work. <<<<
This is how to stream your desktop and a single audio channel use this command from terminal then play Minecraft in a window on you desktop
In terminal type the following command and plug in your tmi password for twitch in the following command.
----> avconv -f alsa -i pulse -f x11grab -r 30 -s 1920x1080 -i :0.0+0,0 -vcodec libx264 -preset medium -s 1280x720 -acodec libmp3lame -ar 44100 -ab 96k -threads 8 -qscale 18 -b 2048k f flv "rtmp://live.twitch.tv/app/--Insert your TMI Passord here---"
This example allows me to stream my desktop 1920x1080 at 30fps to Twitch at 1280x720 at a bitrate of 2048k with 1 audio channel so adjust the setting as required to get it to work for you.
Getting audio to work so that you can send both speaker audio and mic audio requires setting up either an audio Null sink or using Jacks. So do an search on the ubuntu forum it has been posted there I just don't have a link handy for you.
The only thing missing is an IRC client so you can do in game chats. Two mods that I know of are the TwitchTv IRC reborn mod and the ForgeIRC mod. Both work up to Minecraft 1.6.4 and have not been updated yet do a search on the Minecraft forums. I have been using an external IRC chat in Pidgin Internet Messenger but you can use whatever you like.
Hope this helps
I just wanted to add that people running Linux have been able to stream to Twitch since September 2004 so please don't post links to redirect people to twitch because Minecraft does not work with Twitch when running linux. This is the same thing you guys did when Minecraft didn't work with ATI video cards. Please just fix it because everything is available to allow streaming and it has been for a very long time. What the Linux community wants is for Minecraft with all it capabilities to work for us also.
Also James Clarke here is link to a script that allows you to stream Minecraft on Linux maybe those guys at Mojang can take a look at it also to see what they need to do.
"they haven't released any Linux libraries"
Yes, you can stream with Linux (with OBS or similar), but not with the integrated streaming service. Mojang's only allowed (as far as I know) to use official libraries from twitch itself, they're not going to use a 3rd party tool.
Do you know why they haven't release any libraries for Linux?
It is because Linux does not require any libraries to do streaming to Twitch. It's not Windows or Mac OS in case you didn't know that. Not everyone on the planet wants to be restricted with what we can do with our computers.
All you need to stream to Twitch from Linux other then a internet connection is avconv and audio/video codec. And for those that don't know this avconv and many audio/video codec comes with the operating system in many Linux distributions including Ubuntu linux that the orginal poster is using.
Long story short we the Linux people don't want or need any 3rd part tools like the Windows and Mac OS people and we definitely don't need anything from Twitch either.
What the Linux people want to know is when can we expect Minecraft to allow Twitch integration with Linux using the native tools in the Linux operating system. That way we can do our streaming and chatting from within Minecraft just like everyone else.
FYI: I also connect just fine with Twitch with Linux and I do stream Minecraft on my Twitch channel using Linux straight from the OS without any 3rd party tools. I also do in game chatting with mods from the Minecraft Community (TwitchTv IRC reborn mod) under Linux.
What the Linux people want for Minecraft to work with Linux the same as it works for Windows and the Mac OS and not see a message telling us that the libraries don't exist when the tools do this are already built into the operating system.
I also liked you statement "Mojang's only allowed (as far as I know) to use official libraries (from twitch itself)". This statement just got me laughing. Twitch is a website that brings video and audio streaming to the people. That is what they do and they didn't invent video and audio streaming so how can it tell Mojang what it can or can not do with Minecraft. Seems a little backwards to me.
Anyway, is it really too much to ask for the Minecraft to be the same for all the people that use it?
Nice edit Galaxy_2Alex but completely incorrect OBS or Open Broadcaster is for Windows and has nothing to do with Linux but nice try. 🙂 Linux does not require any 3rd party tools to stream.
Twitch does not support linux.