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1. Use IPv6 for both your homepage and the stream

   At the moment, both the Twitch homepage and the actual streaming servers are only reachable over the old IPv4. As there already are providers which only connect their users with DualStack-Lite (this means, IPv6 native and IPv4 over a relatively slow tunnel protocol), it would be good for bandwith-expensive websites like twitch to be reachable over IPv6 - for both the homepage and the streaming servers.

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2. Implement AV1 video codec and Opus audio codec

   We all know that AVC has issues with efficiency an HEVC is basically dead.
   A more modern codec would not only be great for streamers and high definition content, it would also potentially reduce the load on the servers.

   Benefits with AV1:
   - It's open source so no license costs like HEVC
   - It's much more efficient than AVC and even HEVC

   Benefits of Opus:
   - Basically the same as AV1

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3. Ability to "pin" video stats, esp. Latency to Broadcaster

   During a live stream, could a viewer please choose any of the video statistics under Settings > Advanced > Video Stats, and have only that statistic pinned somewhere on the screen? In my mind it would show up like a running FPS counter in a video game, without having to keep the entire blocky chunk of Video Stats cutting off a huge section of the stream's video (and sometimes the streamer's webcam). For example I find myself constantly checking the "Latency to broadcaster" statistic whenever I watch any stream. I always want to know the delay between what I see instantly in chat and when the streamer will have a reaction to the chat message.

   In my experience, many viewers are not aware of the Latency to Broadcaster statistic being available, and often find themselves accruing a huge delay and getting behind on things happening without knowing it. Any number of things can cause these micro delays to accumulate: issues with viewer's internet connection, or the streamer's, or with Twitch's servers too. When I see a delay more than 5 seconds, I want to fix that.

   Many people think refreshing the page is the only way to reset the Latency to try and make it smaller, but a quick pause/play of the video or a quick toggle on and off of the Low Latency mode also does the trick. Having the latency to broadcaster pinned somewhere over the video would help me know when I need to do these tricks to reset the latency and have a more interactive experience.

   Thanks for your time!

   Best,
   Ettin

   During a live stream, could a viewer please choose any of the video statistics under Settings > Advanced > Video Stats, and have only that statistic pinned somewhere on the screen? In my mind it would show up like a running FPS counter in a video game, without having to keep the entire blocky chunk of Video Stats cutting off a huge section of the stream's video (and sometimes the streamer's webcam). For example I find myself constantly checking the "Latency to broadcaster" statistic whenever I watch any stream. I always want to know the delay between what I see… more

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4. Behebung der anhaltenden Probleme mit Vodafone Deutschland

   Hallo,
   Ich wurde hierher verwiesen vom Twitch Support...
   Es geht darum, dass es eine Vielzahl von Vodafone DE Kunden gibt, die mit Twitch extreme Probleme haben: Schwankende Bitrate, kaum Bitrate... Ich bin ebenso betroffen. Ich hab 40 Mbit/s im Upload und kann original nicht streamen weil die Bitrate extrem schwankt. Da es früher mit VPNs gut funktioniert hat und immer noch mit "restream.io" teilweise funktioniert, ist offenbar die Peering-Schnittstelle mit Vodafone DE (AS3209) überlastet. Dadurch kommt auch, dass Streams immer wieder buffern müssen.

   Ich wäre Ihnen sehr verbunden, wenn Sie endlich was gegen die Probleme mit Vodafone DE machen würden. Vodafone DE weist jede Schuld von sich.

   Hallo,
   Ich wurde hierher verwiesen vom Twitch Support...
   Es geht darum, dass es eine Vielzahl von Vodafone DE Kunden gibt, die mit Twitch extreme Probleme haben: Schwankende Bitrate, kaum Bitrate... Ich bin ebenso betroffen. Ich hab 40 Mbit/s im Upload und kann original nicht streamen weil die Bitrate extrem schwankt. Da es früher mit VPNs gut funktioniert hat und immer noch mit "restream.io" teilweise funktioniert, ist offenbar die Peering-Schnittstelle mit Vodafone DE (AS3209) überlastet. Dadurch kommt auch, dass Streams immer wieder buffern müssen.

   Ich wäre Ihnen sehr verbunden, wenn Sie endlich was gegen die Probleme mit Vodafone DE machen würden.… more

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5. I have found a solution to lagging that occurs for many twitch streamers

   I have found a concrete solution to the lag that causes many streamers the issue of the stream lagging when a stream is occurring and have written a small solution paper to address the solution.

   Twitch Stream Lagging Solution

   If you a gamer many people are engaged in streaming on one of the platforms
   for gaming such as twitch. The focus of this article is to hopefully provide an

   insight into an issue which many people find after they’ve been streaming for
   a bit. Consider this, you finally got your status as paid in twitch and you’re

   starting to get money in your account and than it starts to happen. Your

   stream begins to lag every time that your on it.

    You become really concerned, begin to do all your research on it.  What 
   

   really bites is that your dad perhaps or even you just got that new pc installed

   and your thinking to yourself, how could this be? So you begin to make all

   normal troubleshooting moves with twitch. Your using Streamlabs Obs, most
   likely, or twitch studio, you check all the settings for streaming, changing the

   recommended settings you find on every article on streaming and lagging

   that you find on the internet.

    Here is the issue, the solution lies in the connectivity, windows 10 has 
   

   different upgrades since windows 7 & windows 8. One of those upgrades is

   Windows has built into it a set of algorithms that automatically choose

   which connection is best for your use on the network. For example, if your

   used to using ethernet cable, you might be surprised to find out when your

   gaming and you begin to lag. To cut to the chase, I was researching this for

   my son’s issue and here is where the rabbit hole took me.

   On my home system which is with Cox network 1 gb connection because

   we’re both into gaming and streaming, I checked the router logs and found

   that the IPv6 which is the wi-fi was getting wan-attacks on the firewall logs.

   Wan stands for “wide area network”, and the numbers were significant, at

   least between 1500-7058, on a daily basis. When there was “black ice” on

   windows side, and also Linux ubuntu, there was a few programs that would

   identify the ip address from where the attack originated. I found out that a

   a lot of them originated from China and the orient.

   I m going to weave this to relevance now, what has been happening is that

   windows will switch your connection from the ethernet to the wif-fi network

   connection and so what happens is that your busy streaming and it begins to

   lag, and you want to quit. It can be quite , maddening and to say the least

   frustrating, because you thought that you had a solid connection, at least

   thats what your paying for right ?

    So we go back to the windows command shell, cmd at the search field in 
   

   windows and type the command “ipconfig” and it shows that our ethernet is

   disconnected, but the wifi does show a connection. Heres the thing, your

   connections to your network shifted to the wifi instead of the ethernet

   connection you have directly via ethernet cable to the router. You can thanks

   windows metric algorithms for changing your connection automatically.

      The reason for the lag is that most folks in the US are being attacked on 
   

   wifi networks on a daily basis at some point in the day you can look at the

   router logs and see the attacks on the network. Yes the firewall will block

   them however, it will still have the effects of causing lags when your playing

   your favorite games, and Streaming to your favorite platform, like Twitch.

    The solution to this dilemma is to in the windows 10 search field on the 
   

   task bar, type in wifi. It will take you to the settings tab when you click on it

   where you can simply turn off the wifi connection manually and it will stay

   off, so that you can just use your static internet connection you created in

   your network adapter, instead of your wifi connection. So at this point ,

   your lagging issue will go bye bye, happiness will return as well as the

   money for streaming and all will be well.

    The attacks will probably continue as Korea and China are still training 
   

   their army of hackers , so the rule of thumb here is to sidestep your troubles

   and stick to using your ethernet cable connection to your router, and use a

   static IP address for your gaming connection or for that fact any other type of

   work I as a business that connects to the internet .

    Else-wise, one will find themselves vulnerable to the continuing attacks.
   

   On a side note, if the wifi doesn’t show up in windows 10 you have to go

   through a few additional steps, such as opening device manager, finding the

   wifi driver listed, right click and choose, update driver, and choose search on

   your machine. Once that is done choose the driver it finds on your machine

   most likely it will show intel and also Microsoft. I choose Microsoft,

   because the driver on wifi was showing intel, and the wifi on my son’s pc

   was not showing up in the network connections. After this then , hit

   “scan hardware for changes” on the little icon in the menu area ..After this

   open the task manager up and highlight windows explorer and restart it.

    After doing this you will notice in the taskbar that the wifi does now in
   

   fact show up and you can manually click on it to turn it off so that your

   connection to the internet will be thru your ethernet cable to your router.

    I wrote this because my son asked me to write him a text so he could 
   

   check it before he starts his computer for gaming , lol. I hope this has been

   helpful and of course check your streaming settings if you’re feeling that

   could be the cause, and by all means check to see which connection your

   gaming is actually using !

                                                     By Joyingaming
   

   I have found a concrete solution to the lag that causes many streamers the issue of the stream lagging when a stream is occurring and have written a small solution paper to address the solution.

   Twitch Stream Lagging Solution

   If you a gamer many people are engaged in streaming on one of the platforms
   for gaming such as twitch. The focus of this article is to hopefully provide an

   insight into an issue which many people find after they’ve been streaming for
   a bit. Consider this, you finally got your status as paid in twitch and you’re

   starting to get… more

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6. 4 channel audio

   This is music stream focused
   So RTMP can comfortably handle 4 channels of audio @256. Allow creators to send 4 channels with the content on 1&2 and VO on 3&4. Have 2x mute buttons and use an automix to dip 1&2 while creator is talking. Obviously creators would have to opt in but it would increase their passive listeners and help your platform

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7. High Frame Rate Streaming to Viewers

   As high frame rate monitors become the norm in the gaming space, it seems reasonable to assume that viewers would be excited to watch their favorite creators at smoother frame rates that reflect the intensity of actual footage. In addition, the release of more powerful, yet affordable, hardware has made this accessible to more creators as well. Higher resolution is already a standard to video streaming in pre-recorded formats (capped at lower frame rates), while the norm for most of gamers remains 1080p. This is a debatable topic but the priority in many popular titles is that smoother, high FPS experience in lieu of high resolution. Having that option to both game and consume live content at higher than 60 FPS would be a huge feather in the cap to not only the platform, but the individual creators bold enough to push the envelope in their content.

   The biggest limitation it seems would be bandwidth, but again, this is becoming less of an issue as high speed internet spreads across the world, and twitch already has baked in means to correct this with its quality settings.

   OBS Studio already supports the capture of high frame rate and/or high resolution content as do many of the hardware manufacturers producing capture devices. The tools are there. We just have to pick them up and make it happen.

   As high frame rate monitors become the norm in the gaming space, it seems reasonable to assume that viewers would be excited to watch their favorite creators at smoother frame rates that reflect the intensity of actual footage. In addition, the release of more powerful, yet affordable, hardware has made this accessible to more creators as well. Higher resolution is already a standard to video streaming in pre-recorded formats (capped at lower frame rates), while the norm for most of gamers remains 1080p. This is a debatable topic but the priority in many popular titles is that smoother, high FPS… more

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8. Audio Only

   Disable video and only listen like mobile works

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9. Please improve the sound quality when not continuing to watching.

   Recently, Twitch Web(South Korea) has been updated to reduce video quality and sound quality when not maintaining watching.
   However, twitch streaming is not just for watching, but for watching and listening.
   Moving to other tab doesn't mean not listening.
   So, please don't lower the sound quality when moving to other tab in web-twitch

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10. Aspect ratio settings update and support

    As much as every other platform not just Twitch the lack of information for those who stream at other aspect ratios rather than 16:9 is lacking to non-existing.

    It would be nice to have more support for those content creators who do not follow the standard.

    The best example would be in my case is when streaming at 1080p my stream width is 2560 and not 1920.
    This effect the stream in ways that sometimes it shows and sometimes it's just a black screen (Reported by viewers)

    Better support for other aspect ratios rather than 16:9
    Better docs to support a variety of aspect ratios (At least the most common ones 4:3 | 16:9 | 21:9 | 32:9) Which will include the required bit rate and stream settings. For example, for the best setting for ultrawide 21:9, I found that 2560x1080 resolution is problematic altho better performance can be found when streaming at 2292x960.

    Twitch step up :)

    As much as every other platform not just Twitch the lack of information for those who stream at other aspect ratios rather than 16:9 is lacking to non-existing.

    It would be nice to have more support for those content creators who do not follow the standard.

    The best example would be in my case is when streaming at 1080p my stream width is 2560 and not 1920.
    This effect the stream in ways that sometimes it shows and sometimes it's just a black screen (Reported by viewers)

    Better support for other aspect ratios rather than 16:9
    Better docs to support… more

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11. lower the amount of data it uses to stream

    t uses up so much of my WiFi to stream so it would be nice if it didn't use it up so much, thanks

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12. vertical stream

    9:16 for mobile game and live cam

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