Twitch buffering fix (2015)
[UPDATE] Try this first (it worked for me, and it's a much simpler solution):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zizwV...
Right click the player and press settings (if a setting option doesn't come up, try right clicking the tree-animation on the following page and do it from there - https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.... ).
In the settings, the first tab should have an option that says 'enable hardware acceleration' - uncheck this.
VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-...
Livestreamer: https://github.com/chrippa/livestream...
There has been a lot of issues regarding Twitch buffering and/or lagging lately, and an easy and quick way to fix this is to use a program called Livestreamer along with VLC media player.
Download and install both VLC media player and livestreamer (in that order).
open command prompt and type:
livestreamer [twitch link] [quality]
If you want to watch VODs and be able to skip around in the video, type:
livestreamer [twitch link] [quality] --player-passthrough=hls
instead.
Twicth.tv uses different formats for their video streams, and not all of them support the '?t=#h#m#s' parameter at the end of the url. By passing it as hls you'll always be able to skip around the video directly from VLC.