Stream page guide

Stream

S1

Area for embedded streams. Your eyes should be here most of the time.

S2

Button to add another stream. You can hold shift to open it as a floating element.

S3

Delete the selected stream. If you aren't sure which stream this will delete, please pretend you do and do not ask.

S4

• Indicates which stream the T and I elements will target.
• Click and drag to move a floating element.
• Click an unfilled star to select the stream.
• Hold shift and click to convert to a floating element.
• Hold ctrl and click to convert to a static element.

S5

Open a twitch stream in its native popup window. (Can be used to avoid ads)

S6

Open a twitch stream's native chat page in a popup window.

S7

If you have fvsh installed you can open the selected stream in a local video player (NOT SAFE but who cares)

S8

Hide subtitles (it just mirrors the stream image)

S9

Resizes the stream element

• Click and drag to resize while keeping aspect ratio
• Hold ctrl and click to adjust aspect ratio
• Hold shift to add or remove compensation for control bar elements (pretty much useless nowadays)
• Hold alt to increase or decrease the total view area for streams

Chat

C1

The chat. You can read this but do not post.

Other Functions

F1

Toggle between 3 nonsensical options

• Center: the default display of FV, optimized to fit on Scanty's laptop
• Fit to Width: expands the page to be as wide as your current window size (not really)
• Fit to Height: expands the page as wide as possible without the stream icons moving out of view

F2

Toggle the appearance of snow. The rate of snowfall depends on your monitor refresh rate.

F3

You dont need to click this

• Free Chat Box: Disables resizing chat in relation to the stream area.
• Hide Chat Box: If people are being mean to you, you can hide them
• Fixed Chat Box: Default behavior. The chat resizes with the streams.

Appearance

A1

Toggle between the default and the robotpuke themes. You can also double click this to refresh the chat.

A2

Toggle a white gradient background to change the mood.

Text Input

T1

Type the channel name or video id of the stream you want to embed. You can also enter a URL and press enter to automatically choose which streaming service is used, if supported.

T2

Use twitch.tv

T3

Use ustream

T4

Use livestream/mogulus

T5

Use youtube

T6

Use nicovideo or nico nico live

T7

Use kick

T8

Directly embed anything typed into the text input. (html)

Stream Directories

D1

Displays streams which are currently live, selected from FV's own database.

D2

Displays streams selected by user input, sorted by amount of unique viewers. (use this)

D3

Shows the streams from FV's database which are offline. Click these if you want to watch an offline stream.

D4

A collection of streams which should be on 24/7. These can also show up under "Popular" if clicked.

D5

Your personal history of streams you have submitted with the text input. This is just stored in your own cookies.

Corner Decoration

W1

A special area for the winner of the last tournament, or Sonic.

W2

A more prestigious area for special occasions. Pictured: Negan

Blocking Ads

• install a userscript extension like greasemonkey, or use ublock origin
• install one of these userscripts: https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions?tab=readme-ov-file#scripts
• if you use something like greasemonkey, you can install both scripts and switch between enabling/disabling one when the other breaks.