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1. Use the standard tvOS APIs for scrubbing / video control

   Using the unofficial Twitch apps that existed previously on tvOS, it was extremely easy to navigate stream recordings that are often 5-6 hours long. Since the official Twitch app debuted, all the third-party apps have ceased development, so we're stuck with the bad video controls of the official app. This could be solved by using the standard tvOS video control APIs that almost every other app uses. Examples:

   1. While watching a long Overwatch stream, when the streamer was queuing for a match, I could easily tap the right edge of the trackpad to jump forward in small increments, until I could see on screen that a match had started. Then I could tap the left edge of the trackpad once to jump back to the start of the match. Now, I have to navigate to the fast-forward button, hit it multiple times to get to a fast speed, then navigate back to the play button, see if a match has started, and repeat multiple times. Then once I see a match is in progress, I have to repeat the process in reverse. It's a significantly higher number of button presses and time.

   2. If I'm watching a stream while doing something else and miss something important, I used to be able to just tap the left edge of the touchpad and I was instantly back x number of seconds to see what I missed. Now I have to navigate to the rewind button, and choose to either wait for a slow rewind speed, or tap a few times for a fast rewind speed and usually overshoot and rewind way more than I meant to.

   3. If I want to skip to the second half of the stream, I used to be able to just choose precisely with a swipe and tap where I wanted to play. Now I have to bring up the menu, go to the fast forward icon, and fast forward at 2048x, usually overshooting where I wanted to go and having to rewind.

   All in all, the Twitch app's video navigation is like using a VCR in 2020. I don't understand why it was implemented this way when no other app does it this way, and I'm guessing it took more work to create this custom UX than it would've to use the built-in tvOS API.

   Using the unofficial Twitch apps that existed previously on tvOS, it was extremely easy to navigate stream recordings that are often 5-6 hours long. Since the official Twitch app debuted, all the third-party apps have ceased development, so we're stuck with the bad video controls of the official app. This could be solved by using the standard tvOS video control APIs that almost every other app uses. Examples:

   1. While watching a long Overwatch stream, when the streamer was queuing for a match, I could easily tap the right edge of the trackpad to jump forward in small increments, until I… more

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2. Allow Apple TV to Step Back and Forth

   Currently the Apple TV app can only scrub back and forth by rewinding or fast forwarding, an extremely unwieldy way of just skipping past or through content. The UI for this is also clunky.

   Most video apps on ATV allow you to jump back and forward by 10 seconds by clicking the left or right sides of the remote button, or by placing step back and step forth buttons on the virtual remote.

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3. Type with a BT keyboard in AppleTV app

   I’ve got a Bluetooth keyboard paired to my AppleTV, but I can’t use it in the Twitch app. It’d be nice!

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4. Criticism/improvement suggestions Twitch app for AppleTV

   (translated from German by DeepL)

   Hello, Twitch,

   since the release of your new Twitch app for AppleTV I have the following criticisms:

   Home page:
   - Where can I set "my language" (german) so that under "Channels in my language" I am no longer shown ALL international channels with ALL languages?

   Live streams:
   - There is no display of how long the current stream has been running (uptime).

   Stream recordings ("Earlier broadcasts"):
   - The date from when the stream or clip is from is missing - both in the thumbnails and in the enlarged view.
   - The rewind and fast forward function is a disaster! It's extremely unwieldy, very inaccurate and totally complicated to use and doesn't take the modern touch interface of the AppleTV remote control into account at all!
   - Also missing is a skip function that jumps 10 seconds forward or backward in the video.

   Why do you want to "reinvent the wheel" with your new app? Why can't you fall back on well-known and popular functionalities? Even with the recent update of the ARD media library app, the playback of their videos has been changed to the general standard (wiping the touch surface causes the video to be fast-forwarded or rewound, a click causes it to jump 10 seconds back, etc.)

   I hope very much that you will revise the app again, because at the moment it's just a big annoyance for me and it's no fun anymore to watch live streams and stream recordings.

   Greetings from Germany

   (translated from German by DeepL)

   Hello, Twitch,

   since the release of your new Twitch app for AppleTV I have the following criticisms:

   Home page:
   - Where can I set "my language" (german) so that under "Channels in my language" I am no longer shown ALL international channels with ALL languages?

   Live streams:
   - There is no display of how long the current stream has been running (uptime).

   Stream recordings ("Earlier broadcasts"):
   - The date from when the stream or clip is from is missing - both in the thumbnails and in the enlarged view.
   - The rewind and fast forward… more

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5. Enable/Add adjusting speed of VOD on Twitch AppleTV app

   On PC and mobile devices the speed option are already enable. I would suggest to add that same feature to the Twitch AppleTV app.

   I'd be glad to see this option please. Thank you very much in advance. Regards

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6. Hey! I would love if it was possible to watch multiple streams at once!

   I used to use an app where you could have up to like 6 streams at once all live and you could really easily switch between them without any lag or loading. Put it this way twitch! 4 streams At once! 4 times As many ads!

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7. Picture in Picture

   A feature that's available on the Desktop and the iOS apps that isn't on Apple TV. It would be nice to be able to browse streams without having to quit the current stream. There would also need to be a mechanism to dismiss a PIP stream the way there is on the Desktop and iOS apps.

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8. watch party support on apple tv twitch app

   this watch party feature already exists on web and on iphone, but the apple tv app doesn’t support it

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9. Support low latency mode for AppleTV
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