I started playing Team Fortress 2 in 2014 and didn't become aware of the comp scene until a year later. As such, there are a great many old twitch VODs which were taken down and many top players/personalities are now gone. I'm thinking of people like Platinum, Lange, Pyyyour, TLR, and so on. Pyyyour's channel still has some VODs up and there's youtube content out there, but I would love to see more.
I found the following thread on this site:
http://www.teamfortress.tv/19483/twitch-nuking-vods-we-need-help-saving-them
It seems many twitch pages were added to the Internet Archive. Yay! Fantastic! Capital!
So, I started searching for a stream to view there. Unfortunately, I cannot view the VODs. It says I need to install Adobe Flash. OK, I click on the link; it either takes me to a page saying the link cannot be followed or it takes me to a generic Adobe page to download the latest version of Flash. I do that and it doesn't work.
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120809044851/http://twitch.tv/pyyyour
I've tried to view these pages on my computer at home (Windows 7), my Macbook (10.6.8), and my work laptop (Windows Vista, after hours of course). I've tried Firefox and Chrome.
Does anyone have a workaround? Alternatively, did people download these old VODs? If so, where might they be found?
Thanks for your time.
I started playing Team Fortress 2 in 2014 and didn't become aware of the comp scene until a year later. As such, there are a great many old twitch VODs which were taken down and many top players/personalities are now gone. I'm thinking of people like Platinum, Lange, Pyyyour, TLR, and so on. Pyyyour's channel still has some VODs up and there's youtube content out there, but I would love to see more.
I found the following thread on this site:
http://www.teamfortress.tv/19483/twitch-nuking-vods-we-need-help-saving-them
It seems many twitch pages were added to the Internet Archive. Yay! Fantastic! Capital!
So, I started searching for a stream to view there. Unfortunately, I cannot view the VODs. It says I need to install Adobe Flash. OK, I click on the link; it either takes me to a page saying the link cannot be followed or it takes me to a generic Adobe page to download the latest version of Flash. I do that and it doesn't work.
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120809044851/http://twitch.tv/pyyyour
I've tried to view these pages on my computer at home (Windows 7), my Macbook (10.6.8), and my work laptop (Windows Vista, after hours of course). I've tried Firefox and Chrome.
Does anyone have a workaround? Alternatively, did people download these old VODs? If so, where might they be found?
Thanks for your time.
It's saved on a different page: https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_twitchtv
Only selected streams with high enough view counts were saved AFAIK and the metadata looks nonexistent on that site however you can search by channel here: http://archive.fart.website/archiveteam/twitchtv-index/html/
It looks like none of pyyyour's vids were saved but search around. I suspect most of the vods you're looking for are gone since the focus was on the high view count VODs.
More info here:http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Twitch.tv
It's saved on a different page: https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_twitchtv
Only selected streams with high enough view counts were saved AFAIK and the metadata looks nonexistent on that site however you can search by channel here: http://archive.fart.website/archiveteam/twitchtv-index/html/
It looks like none of pyyyour's vids were saved but search around. I suspect most of the vods you're looking for are gone since the focus was on the high view count VODs.
More info here:http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Twitch.tv
Looks like the only TF2 streams saved were from VanillaTV and Sal (saw Fatmop in there). Kritzkast, too.
I guess the only hope would be if people downloaded the VODs themselves at the time. Drat.
Thanks for taking the time, Merchant.
If anyone preserved any old stream VODs and wants to share them, PM me. I'd be thrilled.
Looks like the only TF2 streams saved were from VanillaTV and Sal (saw Fatmop in there). Kritzkast, too.
I guess the only hope would be if people downloaded the VODs themselves at the time. Drat.
Thanks for taking the time, Merchant.
If anyone preserved any old stream VODs and wants to share them, PM me. I'd be thrilled.