Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

twitchroulette.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 111 posts

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

#51

Post by Karliss »

ellg wrote: post #32
cwillu wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Transcoding is only guaranteed for twitch partners, and the cdn doesn't actually distribute the video to a given datacenter until at least one viewer using that datacenter requests it.

ya but 99% of streamers have their stream up in their dashboard or on a side monitor, so its always going to be sending and transcoding something

Twitch can forward the stream as is without transcoding it. That's what transcoding not being guaranteed means. It will be a worse experience for viewers but it can work. Few years ago they even announced working with OBS on feature where streamers themselves can transcode and send multiple streams further reducing need for twitch to spend their compute resources on unprofitable streamers.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

#52

Post by vintermann »

ellg wrote: post #15
reddozen wrote: post #14

[flagged]

no comment on the political bits, but the fact that 80% of twitch is streaming to themselves cant be cheap to run I do wish they would revamp their discoverability process

I think there's a big "control premium" attached to these things. Not necessarily even that they will manipulate and censor rampantly, but that they could, I think the market prices highly.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

#54

Post by cwillu »

ellg wrote: post #32
cwillu wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Transcoding is only guaranteed for twitch partners, and the cdn doesn't actually distribute the video to a given datacenter until at least one viewer using that datacenter requests it.

ya but 99% of streamers have their stream up in their dashboard or on a side monitor, so its always going to be sending and transcoding something

In addition to the other reply, forwarding to one region in the cdn is not the same as forwarding to every region.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

#55

Post by nubinetwork »

ucarion wrote: post #45
chundicus wrote: post #10

What about https://nobody.live/ ?

Leads me to discover: https://www.twitch.tv/chat_loadtest_01 ... neat!

Theres a lot of weird channels on twitch, I run into ones with "ingest" in their name quite often.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

#56

Post by saltmate »

Karliss wrote: post #51
ellg wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ya but 99% of streamers have their stream up in their dashboard or on a side monitor, so its always going to be sending and transcoding something

Twitch can forward the stream as is without transcoding it. That's what transcoding not being guaranteed means. It will be a worse experience for viewers but it can work. Few years ago they even announced working with OBS on feature where streamers themselves can transcode and send multiple streams further reducing need for twitch to spend their compute resources on unprofitable streamers.

That feature exists by now, called "Enhanced Broadcasting".

Re: Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

#58

Post by Akronymus »

john_strinlai wrote: post #50

these types of projects are always fun, whether it is the old youtube videos with no views, or the few other twitch ones like this i have seen. thanks for sharing it. it would be great to be able to filter by language, but i have no idea if twitch exposes that information or if it would have to be some hack with the title/game/etc data. and, probably not your fault, but, probably 1/2 of the spins give me a 10-second…

those preroll "ads" are the alternative to mid stream ads.
Post reply on HN