Question / Help Stream keeps stuttering?

[Munchables]

Hey guys, I'm wanting to Host a 24/h livestream event in the near suture for charity, but unfortunately my livestream keeps stuttering, just freezing for a second for the viewers every few seconds. im really not sure whats going on, I've livestreamed before and it's been fine, my PC is good enough and my upload speed in 20meg. any ideas?

 

[larron]

Pretty sure thats on Twitch's side. I've had that problem watching any stream for months and I'm sitting on a 100/100 mbit fiber cable. Sometimes its fine, sometimes its not.

This might be a bit offtopic, but how does Twitch servers work? I mean I live in sweden, and they recently opened a server here in Stockholm, I can stream to this server at any bitrate I want, without dropping any frames, but I still get this annoying stuttering on streams when I watch them. Do they only recieve data on these servers and have others for streaming to viewers?

 

[Krazy]

Yes, the ingest servers are different than the servers they use to push out data to viewers.

 

[Defiasen]

Yes, the ingest servers are different than the servers they use to push out data to viewers.

Oh, this is is interesting. So then, if I stream to Los Angeles, someone in Europe won't have to receive the stream data from Los Angeles? They'll get it from a closer node?

 

[XeiZ]

"yes"...in reality? no... welcome to twitch.

 

[Defiasen]

"yes"...in reality? no... welcome to twitch.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

 

[FerretBomb]

He means that in theory, how it would work is that the ingest server would replicate it over Twitch's internal backbone to all of the viewer-facing nodes, allowing for a local download and more stable viewing experience.
In reality, the viewer may just be redirected to the viewer-facing node closest to the ingest that the streamer is using, or possibly just to one at-random. So who knows how it will actually perform.