dacoder
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So I am in my dad's house this July 4th weekend (happy 4th btw fellow 'muricans) and i was streaming at an appalling 480p@30fps@400kbps and I was testing quality and if it was feasible to stream from my dad's house (HINT: it looked horrible) but I noticed something... i had quality controls!
This had never happened to me, being a tiny streamer, but once before. I was thinking it was because i was streaming at such a low setting... and Twitch saw it as a low cost of performance operation to give transcoding... but I had seen other streamers too get transcoding, and they had often times 2 or 1 viewers max! Their bitrate was 3500K and 30fps at 720p...
So recently it seems they have allowed more streamers to get transcoding, is there any change in policy I could take use of? Such as lower fps is better for getting selected or what?
Thanks for all the help, and I did read other posts about this, but those were pre-(me seeing transcoding on random streams) so they don't help me much.
Also side note here: is it better to stream at 60fps or 45fps? The new player takes 60fps alot smoother, and it looks better for some, but some get stuttering or buffering at that fps. I did some testing with 45fps, and i got more viewers than usual. (may be coincidence)
Since I cant use more than two PC's at one time, I can never tell what it looks like to a low end or high end pc viewer.
*Why this is such a big deal, I would LOVE to stream at 3500K bitrate, but most of my viewers complain of buffering and lagging, so I have to lower it down to 1800 kbps, which looks nasty to be frank. So with that option, I could have a x10 better looking stream, with accommodation for my slower ISP viewers.
This had never happened to me, being a tiny streamer, but once before. I was thinking it was because i was streaming at such a low setting... and Twitch saw it as a low cost of performance operation to give transcoding... but I had seen other streamers too get transcoding, and they had often times 2 or 1 viewers max! Their bitrate was 3500K and 30fps at 720p...
So recently it seems they have allowed more streamers to get transcoding, is there any change in policy I could take use of? Such as lower fps is better for getting selected or what?
Thanks for all the help, and I did read other posts about this, but those were pre-(me seeing transcoding on random streams) so they don't help me much.
Also side note here: is it better to stream at 60fps or 45fps? The new player takes 60fps alot smoother, and it looks better for some, but some get stuttering or buffering at that fps. I did some testing with 45fps, and i got more viewers than usual. (may be coincidence)
Since I cant use more than two PC's at one time, I can never tell what it looks like to a low end or high end pc viewer.
*Why this is such a big deal, I would LOVE to stream at 3500K bitrate, but most of my viewers complain of buffering and lagging, so I have to lower it down to 1800 kbps, which looks nasty to be frank. So with that option, I could have a x10 better looking stream, with accommodation for my slower ISP viewers.
