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1. 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.

2. 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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3. Give a chance to little channels to grow or atleast let people see what they came for. Transcoding options.

   First of all, forgive my mistakes in English is not my native language. I made this in two languages to make more people able to vote for this.

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   Primero de todo, disculpar mis errores en inglés, no es mi lenguaje nativo. He hecho esto en dos idiomas para poder conseguir que más gente que vote esta iniciativa. La petición en español se encuentra debajo de la explicación en inglés.

   EXPLANATION IN ENGLISH.

   Dear staff of Twitch.tv,

   it’s been a little time for me doing live broadcasts and I would like to address an issue that I been thinking closely and so how it can be solved.

   I haven’t been streaming for a long time on Twitch.tv, that’s a reality. But somehow I keep having the same issue that keeps existing and it is latently in the Spanish and Latin America community especially.

   The issue lies that a lot of people living in Spain still doesn’t have good connections that are able to maintain live broadcasts with source quality.
   Only in cityes you may be able to get stable connections upper than 3Mb, and I would like to undermark the word stable, since you need that in order to follow a live broadcast.
   This case is even worse at Latin America, which having an stable connection of 3Mb may be considered in some cases a luxury or simply something not accesible for everyone.

   Being this the reality, I see everyday how a lot of people enter my channel and leaves because the broadcast keeps loading or suffer cuts that makes the visualization impossible. Some people express himself and ends up leaving, others simply don’t bother.

   They simple see that are only capable to follow content on partnered channels where there is a lot of people, but that content may not be of his interest, and after all leave the platform.

   Everyday I see how Twitch.tv and I keep losing potential viewers that would like to enjoy the platform but they cannot.
   And this issue it may be happening in a lot of channels, but here I can only explain my experience.
   Since I talk from my own experience I refer to the Spanish and Latin American community which is my target, but maybe other new streamers from other countryes are having the same issue.

   I really like to stream everything I play, from here I give you my sincere congratulations for achieving make this platform so big. But I got something else to ask you and that is to not forget about those who are today big we’re also small.

   This is the problem, which maybe you have proof about it and I have tried to express. But also I would like to share a the solution I have been thinking about, and if you consider it somewhow end up applying it.

   I have seen that there’s a subscription mode called Turbo for those people that are interested in the advantages that you actually offer.

   Why not put to that service an option for new broadcasters that could allow the capacity of doing it in different quality?

   I would be happy to be pay if my issue that also benefits Twitch.tv would been fixed. All those people I’m talking about won’t be leaving again, they would stay, enjoying what they’re expecting to see.

   One of the examples I have thinking about it’s about creating an additional subscription called Streamer Turbo or Turbo2. Which

   Streamer Turbo would be an independent service from Turbo, and Turbo2 would be an upgrade.
   Streamer Turbo would give the chance to stream in various quality.
   Or the case of Turbo2, the streamers will be paying for the actual subscription of Turbo an a bonus to access to stream in various quality.

   Dear Twitch.tv staff, there are a lot of channels that doesn’t have the minium followers to ask for partnership like mine which has a short life, but I think that you’re big enough to bring a solution to this issue.

   This may sound like a personal letter, but is nothing like an adapted mail I sent some time ago to the support center.
   After all they could do was to give me some advice and refer me to this page to make this petition, which I also appreciate since I didn’t know that this section existed.

   Please, have in mind that this is not for me, is for all Twitch.tv new and old streamers, that nowadays are still uncapable to have this issue solved.

   I would like to once again thank you for your time and I send you a cordial greeting expecting to hear from you soon.

   Thanks a lot.

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   Traducción a Español.

   Querido personal de Twitch.tv,

   tras algún tiempo haciendo retransmisiones en vivo me pongo en contacto con vosotros para tratar un asunto que llevo algunos días pensándolo detenidamente y así mismo cómo podría solucionarse.

   No llevo mucho tiempo en Twitch.tv retransmitiendo, es una realidad. Sin embargo me encuentro con un problema que sí existe y es latente en la comunidad Española y de Latinoamérica.

   El problema radica en que muchas de las personas residentes en España, por raro que parezca aún siguen sin tener buenas conexiones que sean capaces de mantener retransmisiones en vivo con calidad original.
   Solo en ciudades se pueden conseguir líneas estables superiores a 3Mb, y quiero remarcar la palabra estable, ya que para seguir retransmisiones existe esa necesidad.
   El caso que argumento se agrava mucho más en Latinoamérica, donde tener una línea de Internet suficientemente estable o superior a 3Mb podría considerarse un pequeño lujo o simplemente algo no accesible para todos.

   Siendo esta la realidad, todos los días veo como mucha gente entra y se va porque la retransmisión se le corta, se le queda cargando y en definitiva no puede visualizarla correctamente. Algunos lo dicen, otros directamente no se molestan.

   En definitiva ven que solo son capaces de ver canales en los que hay muchísima gente y posiblemente ése contenido no les interese y acaben abandonando la plataforma.

   Todos los días veo como Twitch.tv y yo estoy perdiendo posibles seguidores que les gustaría disfrutar de la plataforma pero no pueden. Posiblemente esté pasando en muchos otros canales, pero sólo puedo exponer mis vivencias.

   A mí me encanta poder retransmitir aquello que estoy jugando y desde aquí os doy mi más sincera enhorabuena por haber conseguido algo tan grande. Pero tengo algo más que pediros y es que no os olvidéis de que aquellos que a día de hoy son grandes también fueron pequeños.

   Os he hecho saber un problema existente, el cuál seguramente tengáis conocimiento de ello y hasta aquí os lo he expresado. A su vez también me gustaría compartir con vosotros una pequeña solución a ello, y si la consideraseis oportuna, os pediría aplicarla.

   He visto que ponéis a disposición de aquellas personas que lo deseen suscribirse a un servicio llamado Turbo.

   ¿Porqué a ese servicio o a otro servicio encarado a personas que retransmiten sin ser socios no añadirle la capacidad de que aquella gente que desee retransmitir en vivo pueda hacerlo en distintas calidades?

   Yo estaría encantado de poder pagar para que mi problema que a su vez también beneficia a Twitch.tv estuviera solucionado. Todas esas personas de las que hablo no se volverían a ir, se quedarían en la plataforma, disfrutarían de aquello que han venido a ver.

   Uno de los ejemplos que se me había ocurrido es crear una subscripción llamada Streamer Turbo o Turbo 2, el cuál sería como un servicio superior o totalmente independiente del Turbo actual.

   Streamer Turbo daría la capacidad de activar la opción de calidad en el canal y ya está.
   O en el caso de Turbo2, los streamers estaríamos pagando por el servicio de Turbo actual y un extra para acceder a la prestación de calidad para los espectadores en el canal.

   Querido personal de Twitch.tv, sé que mi canal no llega a los mínimos para pediros ser vuestro socio, como ya he expresado tiene poca vida, pero creo que sois tan grandes como para poder ofrecer una solución a ello.

   Sé que esto puede parecer una carta, pero no deja de ser un correo adaptado que envié al grupo de soporte hace algún tiempo.
   Después de todo ellos solamente me pudieron dar el consejo de publicar aquí mi petición, para que se tuviera en cuenta, lo cual también agradezco ya que no sabía de la existencia de esta sección.

   Por favor, tener en cuenta que esto no es para mí, es para todos aquellos nuevos y antiguos streamers, que a día de hoy aún siguen teniendo este problema sin resolver.

   Una vez más os doy las gracias por vuestro tiempo y me despido con un cordial saludo esperando tener noticias vuestras.

   Muchas gracias,

   First of all, forgive my mistakes in English is not my native language. I made this in two languages to make more people able to vote for this.

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   Primero de todo, disculpar mis errores en inglés, no es mi lenguaje nativo. He hecho esto en dos idiomas para poder conseguir que más gente que vote esta iniciativa. La petición en español se encuentra debajo de la explicación en inglés.

   EXPLANATION IN ENGLISH.

   Dear staff of Twitch.tv,

   it’s been a little time for me doing live broadcasts and I would like to address an issue that I been thinking closely… more

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4. Higher timer before going up in quality on auto

   My internet is not that bad, but it spikes alot, so i tend to watch on medium to high. But with this autosetting, when i dont have spikes for 15 seconds it gives Source quality and instantly after fist spikes it goes into buffer and sometimes it even loads ad after buffering

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5. 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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6. Convert all streams into lower-quality forms

   What I am talking about is not a advanced server-side, multiple-algorithm thing like youtube has. I mean a simple set of algorithms to halve frame rate and quarter resolution. This would be most useful to those with slow-ish connections who watch lower-popularity streams but do not care much about the quality. Firstly, you could use a simple calculation that took the R, G, and B values for a given pixel, then dividied up onscreen pixels into clusters of four and average each value, than take the given value and make it an entire pixel. Even a low-end graphics card can convert a stream. Also, another method would be to remove a given percentage of frames. Many people are happy with 15 fps, when twitch only lets them stream in "original" 30. Dropping every other frame is a very easy task. Whats more, both of these could be implemented into the broadcasters client, reducing the server workload even more. It likely wouldn't impact twitch partnerships, since this would only make available a few options, only one of which most people would find tolerable. Please implement these ideas!

   What I am talking about is not a advanced server-side, multiple-algorithm thing like youtube has. I mean a simple set of algorithms to halve frame rate and quarter resolution. This would be most useful to those with slow-ish connections who watch lower-popularity streams but do not care much about the quality. Firstly, you could use a simple calculation that took the R, G, and B values for a given pixel, then dividied up onscreen pixels into clusters of four and average each value, than take the given value and make it an entire pixel. Even a low-end graphics card can… more

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7. Increase the bitrate for source quality.

   I understand people can't watch HQ streams because they have low internet speed but it's not fair for those who can.Games have a lot of foliage which makes the game look very bad.

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