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,

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DarlinDrLambchop commented
I follow 4 channels, and the only one I have issues with are smaller channels that only broadcasts twice a wk, which means they're not entitled to transcoding options permanently on. It's not fair! How are these channels supposed to get more viewers when twitch throttles their video quality and makes the stream freeze up all the time?
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KensonPlays commented
It would be nice to even have a basic single transcode as an affiliate. For example, if you stream at 720p, make one single 360p transcode available. If you stream at 1080p, make a single 480p or 720p transcode available.
I'd gladly pay $10/mo for a feature like this. I have regulars that can barely watch on good days, and are unable to watch normally on more than audio only on mobile.
I no longer stream on Mixer, but I used too. Their Pro subscription doesn't say it, but very commonly grants a single 480p transcode to your stream. So I would be able to stream higher bitrates like 720p60 @ 6k, and then the regulars could watch at 480p with like a like 3.5k transcode or so. I miss that, but Twitch has been in general better for the community in terms of features and reliability.
Please consider adding a single transcode for Affiliates, or another feature for Twitch Turbo or something. I'm sure there's quite a few people who would gladly subscribe to Twitch Turbo for even just one single transcode for all their streams.
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Real5kater commented
Yes, it's a good idea but this should be a special feature for those who have reached affiliate or partner, it makes it more unique and want people to work hard for it, and example is a person who has 1000 followers and 20 viewers on avg and create a quality content and can not change the quality video and then we have those who don't care for the content, they just want to play, with 0 viewers and 3 followers at max and streaming at 1080p 60 fps and can change the video quality, so what's the point to work hard for something, for a special status a special feture if anyone can have it?
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Si, es una buena idea pero que sea algo especial algo unico que se les de a los afiliados y socios, no a todo el mundo, por que mira te pongo el ejemplo, gente que tiene miles de seguidores que estan luchando por el socio, con 50 espectadores de media y que no se pueda cambiar la calidad de video y tenga que matarse por un espcio para que su video se pueda reescalar es absurdo, es alguien que esta creando contenido de calidad, y por el otro lado esta la persona que no le importa el contenido, si no solo jugar y ya, y tiene 0 espectadores y 3 seguidores por mucho y que stremee a 1080p 60fps y pueda cambiar la resolucion del video es absurdo! por eso es algo que deberia ser para los afiliados y socios no abiertos para todos, por que eso haria que se sature menos la plataforma y los servidores y permitiria crear contenido tranquilamente lo cual significa mas personas queriendo luchar por conseguir ese especial y generar ingresos -
trinity_1686a commented
The pitch is roughly the same as in https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310207-video-performance/suggestions/35766724-allow-non-partnered-streams-access-to-low-quality
I get that transcoding require a lot of ressources, especially with so many people streaming, so I get that automatic transcoding is only available to partners. But it would be cool to allow (non partner) streamers who wish to transcode themselves their stream so that they can provide 2-3 level of quality based on their viewers bandwidth. I believe this would not be very difficult, to do, and would be better than current situation -
Exa commented
+1,apoyo esta iniciativa, nos ayudaria a mucha gente.
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ROMaster2 commented
I don't believe twitch has the infrastructure to support custom quality options; it would likely stress out the servers a lot more than their current efficiency with specific encodings.
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Anonymous commented
Breh. Wat kinda device u got that doesn't 60hz? There's like, ONE phone model I've heard of that's stuck @ 30: [Moto Droid 2.1]
NTSC standard has been around for quite some time. Theatrical standard is 24, but television has been at ~60 (it's like 59 point someshit) for d e c a d e s.
Get with the times plox? Who made ur device? Look if you're on PAL50 that's one thing. Here in 'murica we on that 60hz hype (tho rly, going upwards of 120 is still very noticable...)
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Termulus commented
This is a huge issue for mobile users. My device doesn't support 60 hz. So whenever a broadcaster sets their source quality to 60 fps it has all sorts of issues. But changing the quality ALSO decreases the bitrate. I have excellent internet, but my screen can't take it whatsoever. Would like bitrate and quality be separated in the quality options. The old system should still exist for users who don't understand bitrate and quality but this should be slated as advanced.