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1. refresh or reset video

   A way to reset or reset the video when it freezes without refreshing the whole page and losing the chat. This is especially important to moderators who might have to keep an eye on the chat but also need to refresh a frozen twitch video. Frankerfacez had a feature but it is lost with the new highwind player.

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2. Create a dark mode disconnect image

   When in dark mode and the streamer disconnects I am blasted with the White and purple disconnect image. Make a version that detects if I have dark mode enable IE grey or black and purple so I don't lose my eyes when a sudden flash of white light burns my retinas.

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3. 101% speed / buffer catch up

   After a brief "spike" in the connectivity that causes buffering (often at twitch end) there is no way to "recover" the buffer.
   Reducing delays between streamer and viewer is obviously a good thing that Twitch has worked to minimise, however, being suddenly thrown tens of seconds behind "real time" because of a spike offers no means of recovery - one can refresh the page and lose those 30 seconds of content, however, it would be nice if there was an option to "speed up" playback by 1-5% so that the delay is eroded until we catch back up with minimum buffer sizes and drop back to pure 100% speed.

   Think the way NTP works and the way it correct for clock drift - slowly bring us back into sync (or give the option to).

   After a brief "spike" in the connectivity that causes buffering (often at twitch end) there is no way to "recover" the buffer.
   Reducing delays between streamer and viewer is obviously a good thing that Twitch has worked to minimise, however, being suddenly thrown tens of seconds behind "real time" because of a spike offers no means of recovery - one can refresh the page and lose those 30 seconds of content, however, it would be nice if there was an option to "speed up" playback by 1-5% so that the delay is eroded until we catch back up with minimum… more

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4. Add human/result-oriented auto quality variants

   When watching a stream (or VOD), the existing quality options are fantastic! But sometimes I wish I could tell auto what aspect of the stream I want prioritized and just let it pick what's best for that priority.

   I imagine a submenu that says

   Auto > Prefer:

   • Quality (default): Whatever looks good at my current player dimensions and my computer and internet connection can handle.

   • Low latency: Even if it sometimes means I see a lower quality image for a while, I care about every millisecond. Find the fastest quality level that my internet connection and/or PC can reliably decode

   • Continuity: I don't want to ever see a buffering icon or hear an interruption in the audio. Even if that means a few seconds extra delay so that my browser can switch sources and synchronize behind-the-scenes, or handle momentary connection losses

   • Readability: The stream/VOD I am watching will likely have small text that I care about (for example, a "closeup" view of a magic card, off to the side of the main video region). Delay is a lot less important, and perhaps framerate is too (if there's an easy way to skip frames browser-side, since I assume you won't encode an additional video stream just for this).

   • Mostly audio: I'm letting the stream run off to the side while I play/work on something else. I'll occasionally glance over, so you can't discard video entirely, but it would be a waste to use high quality (and if I'm gaming on the same system, I don't want you competing for performance!). Audio continuity is somewhat important to me, but you can let the video portion buffer if you must. Feel free to pick whichever quality option costs you the least server load

   • Only audio: Your window might not even be visible to me at most times, so feel free to discard the visual part of the stream entirely

   I'm sure you can come up with better user-facing descriptions, have a far better understanding of your own architecture to determine which options are meaningful (although two options that behave identically but are described differently might still be ideal to help users select the best one), and can probably find a handful of use-cases I never even considered.

   When watching a stream (or VOD), the existing quality options are fantastic! But sometimes I wish I could tell auto what aspect of the stream I want prioritized and just let it pick what's best for that priority.

   I imagine a submenu that says

   Auto > Prefer:

   • Quality (default): Whatever looks good at my current player dimensions and my computer and internet connection can handle.

   • Low latency: Even if it sometimes means I see a lower quality image for a while, I care about every millisecond. Find the fastest quality level that my internet connection and/or PC can reliably decode

   • … more

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5. Stream vodcasts unmuted, or provide better tools for dealing with muted vodcasts

   I've been uploading old vods for the purpose of vodcasting on a channel I'm editor for for the last week, and long muted sections have been a recurring problem. It takes hours to upload and process a vod, just to find out that long sections are muted and there's nothing I can do about them at vodcast time.

   Some suggestions
   1. When vods are vodcasted, play them unmuted (since they aren't archived anyway and are essentially canned live broadcasts)
   2. Allow a way to quickly remove muted sections from a vod
   3. Provide editors the ability to fast-forward through vods being vodcast
   4. At least allow editors to see which songs are causing the mute

   I've been uploading old vods for the purpose of vodcasting on a channel I'm editor for for the last week, and long muted sections have been a recurring problem. It takes hours to upload and process a vod, just to find out that long sections are muted and there's nothing I can do about them at vodcast time.

   Some suggestions
   1. When vods are vodcasted, play them unmuted (since they aren't archived anyway and are essentially canned live broadcasts)
   2. Allow a way to quickly remove muted sections from a vod
   3. Provide editors the ability to fast-forward through vods… more

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   Planned  ·  Kevin Pan responded

   Agreed that the muting experience is not ideal right now. We will look into this, but lots of things to build and improve for Twitch VODs.