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Re: Show HN: Twitch Plays Doom

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thanks dddanmar, very cool!

You've done all the hard work here, really appreciate your release that gave me a fun Saturday night!

My part took all of four hours to write, setup, deploy and post.

At this point I'm going to pull the stream down, been going 5 days now with a few crashes in Doom that are getting a little frustrating to debug.

Thanks again! This was great fun!!

Re: Show HN: Twitch Plays Doom

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I think the delay is due to Twitch itself.

100% - the delay is as low as I can get it. Twitch uses RTMPE for the most part, it's always going to be a little delayed. It's a decent box, compression is on, connected to fibre internet. If anyone has any ideas of reducing latency I'd love to hear it!

Just to piggyback on this--a friend of mine lives across the country and I've been wanting to watch her play games and kibitz like we used to, but we can't find any video streamer or screencaster that doesn't have either ~10sec delay or unacceptably awful video quality. We've tried Twitch, Skype, and Steam streaming so far. Any ideas out there?

Re: Show HN: Twitch Plays Doom

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

100% - the delay is as low as I can get it. Twitch uses RTMPE for the most part, it's always going to be a little delayed. It's a decent box, compression is on, connected to fibre internet. If anyone has any ideas of reducing latency I'd love to hear it!

Just to piggyback on this--a friend of mine lives across the country and I've been wanting to watch her play games and kibitz like we used to, but we can't find any video streamer or screencaster that doesn't have either ~10sec delay or unacceptably awful video quality. We've tried Twitch, Skype, and Steam streaming so far. Any ideas out there?

As someone mentioned below, https://mixer.com/ seems to be the current king of low-latency, but it seems like they only allow public streams.

And Discord just rolled out a beta for screen-sharing, also something to keep an eye on maybe.

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