Some of us have websites- eCom stores, information websites, etc. I have a PC hardware review website and would like to wish to integrate it just like Youtube. I wish Twitch had the tools that worked.

Twitch has embed code separately for viewing and chat. But it's rather a general code that has fixed width and height. You'd think a big platform like Twitch would have an official WordPress plugin with a responsive design. Also, plugins have better compatibility with WordPress.

There are plugins for Twitch, but they have long been discontinued. There are so many websites out there that use their own coding for responsive twitch stream and chat embedding on respective sites. They get a large audience and typically WordPress pages/ post has better search engine indexability and discoverability.

If you want to force people to join Twitch for complete interaction from websites, fair enough. omit the chatbox and have the view-only window, instead. This way people can view but if they want to interact they'll need to sign up and sign in. But at least have a WordPress plugin for an official responsive twitch stream window.

• Higher Bitrate: (Above 10.000, with video quality selector can be managed so if someone won't use that high download usage, he can tweak it), we still have a really low bitrate, and that force us try to tweak OBS to reach higher quality with lower CPU encoding speed. Still this is not a miracle, and 6000 bitrate is so limited (even if there is a trick to go beyond and reach 8000 bitrate).

• HDR: OBS doesn't support because it's not worth it nowadays since Twitch is not supporting it, but other platforms are starting to give a hint to this technology. I think would be nice to have this option since Twitch is being used in so many Smart TV's in the present. So they could enjoy Twitch in a higher quality. Probably this option should need Twitch partnering with OBS or any other streaming program to make it possible in the best way.

• Higher framerate/resolution: These days we're having better connections that allow us to go beyond the old limits, we could make this work since right now is really normal to see a gameplay in 120FPS and even the next gen consoles are supporting it.

Twitch is the best stream platform, but our technical options are the same since almost 10 years ago. We should aim to higher quality so there are no quality loss between our viewership and our content.

It's time to wake up and make some improvements :)

Twitch transcoding has a few issues. It's not always available (especially to non-partners), and it is of low quality (which is understandable considering the number of streams Twitch has to provide this service for).

After the recent support of multiple audio streams (for VoD vs. live audio) I propose Twitch add support for sending multiple video streams on the mux to Twitch. This improves multiple issues:

• No requirement for streams to have, or be provided, transcoding options from Twitch's side
• Higher quality viewing options for the client (broadcaster encoded streams of higher quality)
• Reduced load on Twitch's transcoding servers
• Broadcaster controlled stream options

With NVENC being far more sophisticated and generally available to many broadcasters, with most consumer cards supporting 2 encoding streams (and Quatro cards supporting 3+), enabling broadcasters to provide their own quality options increases stream broadcast quality and reduces/removes the need for Twitch to provide this option. This should in turn increase the number of broadcasters not using this feature to be granted Twitch transcoding.

Many broadcasters that would use this feature should be in tune with their community and requirements. A typical example of this being used:

• 5Mbit 720p60
• 2Mbit 480p30

A more sophisticated example for bigger broadcasts (eSports):

• 6Mbit 1080p60
• 4.5Mbit 720p60
• 3.5Mbit 480p60
• 1.5Mbit 480p30

Broadcasting software already has preliminary support for multiple encoding streams (OBS) and bigger broadcasts from eSports companies and events likely use expensive multi-transcoding hardware for their streams to multiple services. With Twitch supporting direct stream support from broadcasters unlike competitors like Youtube, etc. this should continue Twitch's legacy of being the higher quality platform for media broadcast.

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