With Uploads, streamers can keep their VOD archive forever. It is finally possible to see a record of every game an individual streamer has played in their career by reviewing their Uploads page. It would be cool to add a "Games Browser" for each channel that mirrors the existing site-wide Games Browser. You would get a searchable view of all of the games represented in a channel's Uploads sorted by total # Views for each game. Streamers could use this to link to archives for specific games they've played on Twitch the way we can currently link to specific games browser pages. For example:

twitch.tv/streamer_name/directory/games/Dead%20Space%20

Would link to all videos marked as "Dead Space" uploaded by streamer_name.

This would be a great way to quickly see what sort of games a new streamer you discover tends to play, and uses existing public-facing information.

Summary:

If you clip a video, you can make a Collection for it.
A streamer can make Collections of other users clips of their channel.
Other user’s Collections of streamers should be visible on both Streamer and Clippers channel.

A great feature which could be integrated could be to allow Clips to be put into a Collection. This would allow the Streamer to pick out favourites from their community clips and put them into a Collection for others to watch.

Ie, sometimes someone makes a fantastic clip from a VoD that never got high views/was shared but might be hilarious to the streamer. Or making a collection of great clips from a specific game played.

Currently you could download then reupload the clip into a collection, but that defeats the purpose somewhat of including the community and is less time efficient (if that is the aim).

Why this feature would be good:

Burst clips are always known to be enjoyable as content.

Great for reddit, twitter as a form of vine. They are a great way for new viewers to get a “gist” of the channel. For example when I go to a new channel, I will open up their clips and “check them out”.

Sometimes 10 people clip the same thing 10 times and there is no sorting feature.

Allowing Clip Collections to be made is a form of organisational feature.

Channels can appear more busy with less work from the Streamer.

Going through clips of the stream is less time consuming than making highlights from VoDs. Though both are great. Ie, uploading a new collection and tweeting it out feels like a new video that day.

Allowing Clippers to make collections of their favourite streamers can be another organisational tool.

Allowing user’s “Clip Collection 1” to be seen on streamers the Clips page (as similar to current Clips are) s a great way for Clipping to be even more engaging with the Steamer’s community.

Also it also allows streamers to be able to support other people in their network this way. Ie, you may click on the maker of the Collection, someone you may talk to everyday in chat, that you might not have been aware they even stream and you catch them live. Ie, keeping you on twitch for longer.

This feature is currently utilised on youtube as a “steam highlights”.

Example, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=steam+highlights videos. This is extremely popular on youtube. Many viewers of channels will start-up fan-made Streamer youtube channels and upload stream highlights for the Streamer, or the streamer will do it themselves. Example, CatDany https://www.youtube.com/user/Dany2001RU. Finding a way to set up “clip channels” on Twitch is a way to aid in stabilizing this market on the main platform.

Ie, a large amount of a Clipper or Youtube highlights video marker’s fame is directly correlated to the Streamer themselves. If the collection of clips made by the highlight maker is able to be found on the streamer’s video.

A dropdown box within Clips to say “Collections” on both Clipper and Streamers pages.

This is one place to possibly put it. Or a dropdown box on Collections to say “Clips Collections”.

This can also be a great marketing tool for Streamers.

Example; user likes Dark Souls and watches a lot of DS streams. Makes a collection of clips they have made from a range of Streamers on the subject of Dark Souls (calling it Dark Souls Clips, whatever). If you search for Dark Souls and click this collection, you may find other Dark Souls streamers to watch. Ie, bringing notice to possible small channels whom may be good players/cool personalities, or allow Streamers to find other Streamers to do group ups with for holiday specials or multiplayer games to bring focus to both channels.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/74l5t8/feedback_for_clip_and_collections_beta/

I often watch two or more streamers who host shows together on twitch. This means they will be talking on teamspeak and broadcasting this teamspeak conversation on each stream. This means you will have to mute one of both streamers if you want to watch both of em at the same time. If streamers could stream multiple audio channels, they could stream the teamspeak conversation on one track and their normal microphone/stream sounds on other tracks. Users could mute the teamspeak channel if they want to watch both streamers, and still hear whats going on if one streamer mutes himself on stream (and the additional stream sounds from the streamer that right now will have to be muted)

Currently, the only option for transcoding regardless of a streamer's own setup, is to pray you're lucky.

This harms a ton of smaller streamers, viewers, and Twitch Profits alike. It forces streamers to prioritise lower quality, which wards off viewers in more economically sound positions in order to get the viewers required to get noticed by the clearly viewer driven promotion algorithm. This is highly self-contradicting, leading to the only chance for twitch to maximise profit being streamers downprioritising the users that would be the most likely to contribute large amounts.

Opensourcing already existing transcoding service together with something like OBS Studio would be a no-brainer in that regard, and also save the potential processing cost of transcoding serverside. It would increase network load, but that could be easily mitigated, especially if it gives more users incentive to contribute to streams.

I’m working on an SPA where one can watch VODs in sync, as if it was live.

I noticed something weird on several videos: when started at a late position on Auto quality, the videos plays normally for a few seconds, then goes backward exactly when the quality is automatically changed.
This does not happen by switching qualities manually.

This is not easy to reproduce, as you need to be in Auto quality AND have the first selected quality to be low (e.g. 360p).

Here are the steps I took with relative success to reproduce the issue:

1. Go to this video : https://www.twitch.tv/videos/999197520?t=8h51m36s
2. Switch to a low quality (360p)
3. Let the video run for a few seconds
4. Switch to auto quality and refresh
5. If you’re lucky, you should be in Auto quality with 360p selected. If you have “Source” quality, go back to step 2
6. Around 8:51:51, the video should have jumped backward of a few minutes (but the timecode hasn’t). This happen exactly at the moment where the video switches quality.

I made a video showing the steps to reproduce and the bug here : https://youtu.be/s4TGLqzBg6k

My guess is that it is due to the long video and a somewhat wrong video encoding from the streamer…
I found a work-around by forcing a non-Auto quality in my SPA, but this removes the advantages of the Auto quality mode…

Foot Note : this also happens with the embed Twitch player.

I love the new view numbers attached to the VODs! I would love a way to transfer these view numbers to the attached highlight. As it stands now, we lose all those stats when the VOD expires. Those of us that highlight entire streams without the breaks, etc to save for future VOD watchers (for example, an entire series run of Silent Hill) have a difficult time explaining Twitch analytics to sponsors or advertisers.

If I submit analytics of EXAMPLE GAME with 1k Twitch views, 1k YouTube (uploaded 24 hours after it airs on Twitch for exclusivity), 1k podcast version, and the VODs on Twitch are deleted so only the highlights remain (with 400 views instead of the original 1000) - this does a few things:

Sponsors cannot fact check view numbers (and they do). Now they think creators have lied or inflated numbers, so we must either preemptively try to explain that Twitch deletes a video without us able to save the original (which seems very unlikely from a business standpoint) or just not include those numbers at all ultimately signalling to sponsors Twitch isn't worth as much investment as competitor platforms, when the reality is often that Twitch had more engagement and views than competitors. (1400 views + a live chat vs "only" 400 views on a highlight you can't comment on).

Basically, it's bad for all of us and I'd love some way to either attach those original view numbers to the highlight or a way to save the original VOD. Attaching the original view numbers to all highlights isn't a perfect solution because if someone only highlights a small portion of the stream, surely they don't want the entire stream's numbers, but it's the only solution I can see to help this issue. Perhaps this feature activates for highlights over an hour long?