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My primary problem with twitch streams is that even though I can easily get all the 1080p60 bytes onto my machine, the bloody web player can't keep up. My fans
by jamiepenney 9y ago
My primary problem with twitch streams is that even though I can easily get all the 1080p60 bytes onto my machine, the bloody web player can't keep up. My fans spin at max speed, and eventually it starts dropping frames.
Contrast that to running it in unstream (the windows app). Absolutely no problems. Hell I'm pretty sure my iphone can run the Source level streams better than Chrome on my macbook pro.
- zanny 9y agoI'm not sure what the state of hardware accelerated video on OSX is, but at least on Linux Firefox doesn't support hardware decoding while Chromium does, and that leads to a 20% vs 5-10% CPU usage while watching Twitch source streams for me.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoNot too long ago I did a check, was doing Twitch on Chrome / Macbook, and the thing just drained power. Turns out they were still using a Flash player, with a HTML5 player - which worked just fine and at a fraction of the power usage - an optional beta feature that I only managed to somehow activate using the browser's dev tools. I hope the html5 player is the standard now.
- natural219 9y agoYes, the HTML5 player is now standard; Flash is only used as a fallback if HTML5 is not available.
- Accacin 9y agoTry Streamlink! Then you can watch the stream through VLC or any other player.
- Accacin 9y agoTry Streamlink! Then you can watch the stream through VLC or any other player.