Improve servers over big streamings events.

This is just logical, but it is quite frustrating that the platform literally looks the other way. I'm talking here about Spain particularily. Whenever some of the biggest streamers make a special streaming, or an event, the rest of the platform falls. And I mean all of it. The rest of streamers won't even have enough bandwidth to stream themselves, which honestly is insulting given how much benefits the platform registers over time. Fortify your servers or die trying, because this happens now more than ever, the rate is increasing and you are disabling hundreds and thousands of streamers for the big fish in the plate that night.

Bitrate is a funny little thing. When a stream pushes the limit of the bitrate selected in OBS/Xplit (due to high resolution/framerate/visual effects), artifacting occurs, and the stream will appear distorted (pixelated? mosaic-y?).

On Twitch, the current maximum upload bitrate is stated to be 6000 kbps, with a hard cut-off a bit above that number. From what I understand, this is to keep server costs at a reasonable level, and to maintain a smooth viewing experience on channels without transcoding.

That said, YouTube, a platform mainly focused on hosting pre-recorded and edited content, encourages streamers to stream to their website at higher resolutions and bitrates. For example, YouTube advises streamers to stream at up to 9000 kbps to comfortably stream at 1080p and 60fps, and even recommends for 4K 60fps streams to be done at up to 51,000 kbps.

Understandably, an instant switch to such a high bitrate for everyone would be a big sudden expense for Twitch, and one that probably cannot even be enjoyed by most viewers of non-partnered streams.

However, considering all of this, I don't think this is an unreasonable request:

Please roll out a bitrate limit increase to 10000 kbps, allowing for clean 1080p60 streams on the platform. If absolutely necessary, roll it out to partners first to test the waters, and then start rolling it out to affiliates.
Eventually in the future I would love to see a Twitch platform on which affiliates can comfortably stream at 1080p60fps, and partners up to 4K60fps if they wish to.

TL DR; make number go up, streams get better ;p

As the streaming industry embraces new technology, alongside increased internet speed standards, I would love for Twitch to adopt full transcoding for all active streamers as well as an increase in the bitrate cap to 10k.

The current issue with the 6k bitrate cap for non-partners is inherently-lowered viewer experience. Viewers are consistently looking for superior quality streams as the first impression of long-term engagement and retention, which the current 6k bitrate cap severely inhibits due to automatic pixelation for high-movement games such as FPS. Since partners have the automatic 8-8.5k bitrate cap increase, this gives partnered content creators an automatically increased opportunity on the platform due to increased video quality enhancement while non-partnered streamers making up over 90% of the platform are automatically handicapped to lower settings.

In addition, transcoding should be a set standard for all viewers to obtain regardless of partner status and allow for a flexible viewing experience based on viewer internet speeds instead of automatically forcing non-partnered streamers to lower their video quality settings or pray for random transcoding opportunity.

I've noticed that Twitch seems to have a major garbage collection problem. I use Firefox (97.0.1 currently).

Granted, I currently have 5 streams open with 4 of them tiled on my TV, however, the memory usage can be seen in excess of 10 GB.

When I do manual garbage collection via about:memory?verbose, it can drop back down to about 2-3 GB total usage on the main process with 5 streams open.

This sort of memory bloat only happens when I use Twitch. Firefox reports that the memory is under control (less than 1 GB total) in about:performance, but it seems to only happen when Twitch is open.

Edit: To add to this, since I think it's related:

I am currently watching ironmouse for example. For some reason the entire UI seems to choke, as well as the video will stutter. It is completely random. It seems to happen on her stream most often and not really anyone else's that much.

I have a chrome extension installed that allows me to change the speed of any video I watch. Due to this, I can always see the speed of videos in the top left corner. I've noticed that any time a stream I'm watching lags or I fall too far behind live, Twitch will automatically change the speed of the stream from 1x to 1.03x speed. I believe this is a good idea and the change in speed is small enough to not affect the video. However, this speed change DOES affect the audio and in the case of music streams, it horribly detunes the audio. I don't think this speed change needs to be taken out but it needs to be implemented in a way that doesn't affect audio

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

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.

Twtich server upgrade so also more bitrate upload and users pay a small pocket money for this :)

You know it from server hosters "You want more upload or more storage, then rent at Twitch-Turbo the server package" For +5,90$ or 9,90$ you can upload and stream up to 13K/ 15K.
So Twitch would have less problems with the costs and who does not want to pay such a server upgrade remains with Free and 6-8K upload depending on Twitch contract.

Possible would be this Year, because it's time for an Upgrade at Twitch :)
YT has long been at Good (Hype) Quality and Twitchazon ;) would be well positioned with Amazon AWS Servers and their Data Centers.

I wish you a nice Day and come well into the New Year, Love Twitch :D

Error 2000 in my experience has been due to the Anti-tracking software I use. This makes the stream crash and quit playing. You need to refresh to get the stream going again. Usually this will cause an ad to play as soon as it is refreshed but not always in my experience. Anti-tracking software does not prevent other streaming websites to run smoothly for me, only Twitch. On my latest Twitch watching stint, my Anti-tracking software shows 13 advertising trackers blocked, 3 site analytics trackers blocked, and 0 essential trackers blocked. My Anti-tracking software states that essential trackers are critical for website functionality. Twitch's website is not functioning correctly though my Anti-tracking software blocked ZERO essential trackers. This makes no sense. The error is not on my part, it is the fault of Twitch and needs to be fixed on their end. I could turn off tracking protection but I have it and use it for a reason, and I am keeping it on. The tracking protection I use does not cause any other website streaming to stop working correctly. This issue has been ongoing for years. Fix your streaming errors regarding Anti-tracking software.