I think its fine but I agree with the vods, own3d was better on that part.

Streams have been fine for a while now for me, but vods are almost unwatchable.

It seems it's a problem of their Flash-based player, you should try Livestreamer.

Nope, this does not solve the problem.

exactly.. if i download the vods, i get 4-5 MB/s
but trying to play them in a browser and it's buffering every 2 seconds..

ive stopped watching faceit months ago, sometimes watch 125fps but thats random too. twitch sucks that it cant supply enough bandwidth, time to drop it all guys! :>

ive been saying this all year, it's horrible and i still can't believe there's no alternatives. any big event hosted on twitch.tv (even just csgo streams with 6k viewers) the stream lags so hard you're forced to watch at 480p or some other potato encoding and even then it still stutters and freezes just not as bad. earlier this summer i wanted to watch evo but the stream had like 140k viewers and the shit lagged so hard i couldn't watch it at all, pissed me the fukk off since ive been watching evo for a long time now, i heard it sucked though so w/e. fuck twitch

+1!
Most streams are just unwatchable on twitch. Even with a VPN from nl or de its unwatchable...

Must have everything to do with location. I'm US West and rarely get stutter on any stream. That said, I hate the layout of twitch and miss own3d.

I left the vod from today's faceit cup open, it's had close to 2 hours to load. It's only loaded 15min worth of video, fucking horrible. It also looks like it doesn't continue to load the video while you watch, wtf.

Those who have more than 100 subscribers on YouTube can start applying for YouTube Live: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!cate...xoKC9YWEyQ

The only downside is that it's limited to 30FPS...

that's not that bad when it's done through streaming, it's different to com_maxfps. Isn't that what most streams are like for games anyway?

FaceIt, for instance, streams at 60FPS. If you compare their VODs (or the "source" encode while they're live) with the same VODs on YouTube, the difference in fluidity is quite noticeable.

Ooops, my apologies! Ignore that then.

No apologies, man! Also, I was only suggesting it as an alternative, since maybe it's better to have 30FPS with no lags than unwatchable 60FPS. :)

For all of you Europeans, most of the problems of your lag is just bad servers by twitch.

If using google chrome, you can use a fix made by r1ch that redirects you to US servers, therefore solving most of the lag problems (atleast for me and the majority of its users).

The guy's addon can be found here: www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=434208

The link might be wrong because im posting from uni, in which teamliquid.net is blocked -_-. If it is, just search for "European twitch server lag fix by r1ch" and youll find what im talking about.

Happy Twitching! inb4 obvious [+]bait

r1ch saving quake once again

ye. thanks to hi,m

so what happens when all of yurope is on the murican servers? deja vu? :X

all i know it works and its awesoem :D

So did anyone get this to work with livestreamer?

Yes: https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/issue...t-27924635

plz could you elaborate how you got it working with the help of that post? cause here livestreamer refuses to accept no_proxy as a parameter, on a windows box it isn't an environment variable and i don't see any other way fixing this other than to edit the source and recompile.. (and i don't have python installed :])

I'm not particularly familiar with Windows shell, but this could work (save as .bat or .cmd and run instead of livestreamer):

set HTTP_PROXY=http://173.236.101.38:9191
set NO_PROXY=www-cdn.jtvnw.net

livestreamer %*

(or replace %* with the actual livestreamer parameters). From that thread it seems that the version of the Requests library is also important (I have 2.0.1 on a Linux box). If the above script does not work, I think you should ask in that thread how to get it working on Windows.

BTW, Python is an interpreted language, so if you can run livestreamer, then you have Python installed, and you can also edit the source files and run, no need to recompile anything ;) I checked the Windows package, you are correct: it's really in binary form. But it comes with Requests 2.0.0, this should be good enough.

oh, that's excellent.. didn't know it would take vars just like that here too. works like a charm, thank you!

and i just KNEW i had that "python is an interpreted language.." line coming the second i wrote recompile. :D

This solved a lot of problems for me a while ago. Really thankful for the guy who made this.

I'm likely part of a silent majority here - Facey and Zootlive normally stream fine for me at any quality, albeit with rare and short bursts of lag. Vods work more often than not, though they're a lot more unreliable.

If I do have problems I watch with chrome US server addon or download the vods using twitchtools - http://www.twitchtools.com/video-download.php

Just you wait until the XBox One kiddies start streaming from their consoles..

the amount of random as fuck streams already increased with ps4..

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http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/man-expose...tely-22779
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I thought PS4 was Ustream...

it uses both, they reached a deal with Twitch as well

http://phota.me/xCEa.gif :))))))))))

It's just that their infrastructure can't support so many viewers! Before most of the people was watching owned.tv and the load on twitch was low -->speed/quality/no lag. Now? Now all the streams are on it as it was on owned and GG. If someone want to do it right, he must put a LOT of money into it and that's from the beginning(before you get a lot of viewers/streams). It's a lot cheaper to start strong than to upgrade your infrastructure. Peace out.

I've had infrequent problems with twitch, didn't realize it was such a big deal x[

http://www.gamecreds.com/ ?

Awfully cluttered design isn't it?

true :P

My experience with this is simular to what some others have said. This seems to be an issue with your location or what servers you are using. I have a very bad experience with streams and vods when using most European based IP's. Once I connect through American based IP, then it seems to work a lot smoother. I confirmed this with my VPN connection.