Question / Help Vewer Selectable Quality?

[Larry_L]

Hi Folks:

Some Twitch streams allow the viewer to select the quality of the download, so they can get a satisfactory frame rate.

Is this a Twitch feature or an OBS feature? How do I offer it?

Thanks
Larry

 

[R1CH]

Become popular or a twitch partner.

 

[Larry_L]

Thanks R1CH:

I'll never become a popular Twitch streamer, unless my horrible game play becomes so comically bad as to go viral.

I don't know what a Twitch partner is.

A skilled World of Tanks player has offered to platoon and hold training rooms with NOOBs like me who are trying to get better.

Only 3 people can be in a platoon, the instructor and two NOOBs. Others of this small group of students might benefit from watching a stream of the platoon through Twitch.

You're telling me that viewer selectable quality isn't available on free Twitch accounts.

Thanks, that answers my question.

Larry

 

[FerretBomb]

Yep, transcoding (quality options) are only available to Twitch Partners, and non-partners who surpass a certain (undefined and changing) viewer level (who then keep them until the end of their stream).

This is a Twitch-side thing, not something you can turn on and off in OBS. Though Twitch *has* mentioned considering allowing streamers to send multiple quality levels of stream. But that'll eat more CPU and bandwidth, if they ever DO implement it.

 

[dodgepong]

The only way you can get transcoding options as a non-partner is to have lots of viewers at a single time (more than ~50 or so).