Hey, I watch alot of past broadcasts and I don't quite understand why we're all being forced to use this option. It might be good with short videos like on other platforms, but on here it's more painfull than useful.

Me and probably many other people watch them while going to sleep. So If you wake up and there are random streams marked (auto play plays random pb's for me), it's hard to remember what you actually watched.
I also noticed that it doesn't always shows what's going to be played next https://gyazo.com/838517e196f50c6d757a3f6d9b1a9a3d .

I really hope you implement this feature as fast as possible.

Popout chat during livestreams is amazing for someone like me with two monitors, I wish I could do the same with VODs. The feature to popout the VOD player already exists, however the ability to popout chat is not there. If you could link the time between the VOD and the chat in the VOD so they sync up It would be such a big quality of life improvement to the rewatchability of live streams. Yes theatre mode exists, however the screen size is sacrificed and there is no way to have the VOD's chat overlayed either. Please add a popout chat for VOD's.

Hi! This past weekend was LOL Worlds, unfortunately I couldn’t watch it live. Something that is fairly common, especially when the event is in another time zone.

But this is no problem as I can always watch the VOD afterwards. But something that is somewhat ruining the experience for me is that I can see the time left of the video.

However, in the biggest esports such as LOL, CS:GO, OW, and Dota 2 the big tournaments are usually played out using best of matches, meaning they play until one team reach a certain won matches. Because of this the time left of the VOD can quite easily give away how many games are played.

Example: a VOD is 4h w a 30min intro from casters, each match is usually 40min w 15min in between and some after talk. I know when clicking on the video that this most likely only contain 3 games. Let’s now say it is a best of 5 (first to 3 wins win the whole thing). This means the team who wins the first match is the winner of the whole thing because there isn’t enough time in the VOD for the other team to win 3 matches on top of this.

It kind of takes away the excitement of watching a grand final for Worlds, TI, a Major, etc.

If there was a way uploaders could mark their VODs as live events so it doesn’t show the length of the video and the user has an option to watch it back as a live event w/o a time bar but still on demand as opposed to VODcasts. In the best of worlds it would even be possible to fast forward as some of these events have like 1h of countdown before anything actually starts.

Thanks

While I am watching an old broadcast, usually the day or two after it happened, I want to catch up on a few things. I do not watch the entire thing, but usually skip along to key moments. I would appreciate a few different ways to know where to skip along the time track on bottom. For example, if there were markings along the bar that showed where clips were taken. This would let watchers know that something "big" happened there and worth stopping there along the skip. A "Next Clip" button with this could let the user skip along the video faster, but not missing most of the important moments. Not all clips are good or well done, but I can see promise in the idea. If there are too many clips, maybe show the highest viewed one by default and have a list of similar clips on side to watch that clip instead.

Other time bar options could similarly be done to mark the time bar, like a video curator where other re-watchers or current watchers can mark these important moments as they watch, like clipping, but just a time marker instead.

These could also be done in real time videos so that people, who watch after the broadcaster started, can go back to key moments/clips and catch up quickly to the live broadcast.

The value in this feature could be huge as most users probably do not watch the entirety of old VODs, but instead try to skip to some degree.

In my twitch livestreams I often play multiple games.
Afterwards I exported the whole VOD to Youtube and split the content in multiple videos by using the Youtube Video Editor; with that I was able to sort the content according to the game in playlists and categories, because on Youtube one video can only be categorized in one category/game.

Youtube now removed the feature to "split videos to new videos" 😐

"No one used that and you can still easily download, split and reupload the Videos", Youtube says. 🙄
That is BS, because Download is limited to 720p and Youtube recodes the video on upload and therefore much of the video quality is lost.

SO,
as my suggestion ... suggests it would be nice to automatically split VODs according there category. Or at least manually.
Or it would be nice if the Export-Function would contain such an option. To export separate videos according there category.

Thanks for considering

Every streamer runs into a few issues with trolls. Half of the time with trolls or DMCA content, users have to completely delete VODs. Well, unlike Twitch but on other platforms you're able to edit "VODs" a lot more with a lot more detail. That included to making parts quiet, to louder. Replacing or adding music to the vod, or even bluring or blocking unsafe content for the vod and even removing DMCA content from the vod without removing your whole vod to follow through with DMCA.

These systems have been around for ages and I'm completely flabbergasted about twitch's speed at handling for these situations. We have other platforms out performing Twitch in a lot of these design choices in which they protect the content creator a lot more.

I saw a similar suggestion about vod editor but it said a "highlight editor" was in progress. Who cares about highlights when you can't highlight because you're forced to delete a VOD asap for guidelines.

When exporting vods to YT, it would be really nice if we could add a thumbnail to the vod like we would if we were on YouTube and if the export function could flag if there are problems with your videos (i.e. this video has < or > in it, so it won't export). It's frustrating trying to carry over past vods then having to do extra steps when the bulk of the functionality already exists, and even more frustrating when I go to export, and get an email an hour later saying 'oh sorry, your export failed' with no explanation or why or even copy of what you tried to export.

A feature for creators which allows for any number of options for expiring broadcasts, namely an automatic exporting system to Youtube. In short, an option to have a VOD export to Youtube on its own. We already have the option to set the privacy of a video export to either public or private, even edit the description, so keeping that option seems reasonable.
Not to speak for everyone, but a large number of streamers have dealt with problems regarding expired broadcasts that, according to some over at Twitch, may or may not be lost to the void.
Adding this feature would minimize the number of support tickets regarding such concerns and take a huge weight off of many streamers' shoulders.