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It's kind of sad to see Mixer/Beam go, they did have a couple unique features I made good use of. - FTL protocol, a streaming protocol based on UDP which had s

It's kind of sad to see Mixer/Beam go, they did have a couple unique features I made good use of. - FTL protocol, a streaming protocol based on UDP which had sub 1 second delay times, far far superior to what Twitch is capable of. - User interaction, I was able to quite quickly set up buttons on my page that let my stream viewers control the RGB lighting in my room in interesting ways, and it was a lot of fun for me as a streamer to get that realtime interaction with my viewers

uncoder0 6y ago
I'm very familiar with Mixer my company does interactive streaming and I really liked Mixer/Beam they had a great team. Their mobile interactivity is next to their low latency as the high marks of the platform. I do think their audience acquisition strategy with large streamers was lopsided. Maybe if they went farther down the longtail and involved a lot more content creators they could have carved out a whole community. Really sad to see them go. Shameless plug warning but, if you're moving over to Twitch there are a lot of great extensions and you can always easily build one on your own with our tools at Muxy.
willcipriano 6y ago
> FTL protocol, a streaming protocol based on UDP which had sub 1 second delay times, far far superior to what Twitch is capable of. I don't use/watch any of these platforms but I heard the delay is a feature of Twitch to prevent people from "screen peeking" players when they play online.
- detaro 6y ago
  You can always add artificial delay if that's what you want, but if you don't want to delay to interact with your audience/have them interact with the game, you want something that can do low-latency.
  - zapzupnz 6y ago
    Totally. Avoiding screen sniping should be up to the streamer — in OBS, for instance, one could set up a scene with one source item, an instance of another scene, then add a delay filter to it. Then one can freely switch between the live scene and the delayed scene. Simple.
    - HacklesRaised 6y ago
      Moreover, your audience are all at the same part of the stream, not separated by seconds because of buffering.
- gempir 6y ago
  It's definitely not a feature since twitch has been trying hard the past years getting that number down a lot. They have extra options for artificial delay if you need it.
AdamTReineke 6y ago
The real-time nature of Mixer streams was amazing. I loved being on voice chat with friends while watching their streams, it felt instantaneous. Hopefully more platforms can pick this up (looking at you, 7 second latency Steam streaming).
- Laremere 6y ago
  I rarely watch twitch, and when I do it's for events (eg, Games Done Quick) and not individual streamers. I'm just past that being interesting in my life. Discord though - they announced streaming and I thought it was ridiculous, but they've won me over. Among a friend group, where joining the stream also implies joining the voice chat, I find myself being drawn in when someone is streaming. It's great for: waiting for a round to end before you can join the group, reviewing replays as a group, "hey check out this cool thing", just seeing what's up with a game a few people are trying out, or (especially in post-covid19 world) just hanging out when you don't/can't (eg, eating) play at the moment but want some socialization. Combined with video chat and it makes a good platform for socially distant jackbox games - it just works compared to other video chats which seem optimized for slide shows and fail at streaming a game smoothly with audio.

uncoder0 6y ago

I'm very familiar with Mixer my company does interactive streaming and I really liked Mixer/Beam they had a great team. Their mobile interactivity is next to their low latency as the high marks of the platform. I do think their audience acquisition strategy with large streamers was lopsided. Maybe if they went farther down the longtail and involved a lot more content creators they could have carved out a whole community. Really sad to see them go. Shameless plug warning but, if you're moving over to Twitch there are a lot of great extensions and you can always easily build one on your own with our tools at Muxy.

willcipriano 6y ago

> FTL protocol, a streaming protocol based on UDP which had sub 1 second delay times, far far superior to what Twitch is capable of. I don't use/watch any of these platforms but I heard the delay is a feature of Twitch to prevent people from "screen peeking" players when they play online.

detaro 6y ago
You can always add artificial delay if that's what you want, but if you don't want to delay to interact with your audience/have them interact with the game, you want something that can do low-latency.
- zapzupnz 6y ago
  Totally. Avoiding screen sniping should be up to the streamer — in OBS, for instance, one could set up a scene with one source item, an instance of another scene, then add a delay filter to it. Then one can freely switch between the live scene and the delayed scene. Simple.
  - HacklesRaised 6y ago
    Moreover, your audience are all at the same part of the stream, not separated by seconds because of buffering.
gempir 6y ago
It's definitely not a feature since twitch has been trying hard the past years getting that number down a lot. They have extra options for artificial delay if you need it.

AdamTReineke 6y ago

The real-time nature of Mixer streams was amazing. I loved being on voice chat with friends while watching their streams, it felt instantaneous. Hopefully more platforms can pick this up (looking at you, 7 second latency Steam streaming).

Laremere 6y ago
I rarely watch twitch, and when I do it's for events (eg, Games Done Quick) and not individual streamers. I'm just past that being interesting in my life. Discord though - they announced streaming and I thought it was ridiculous, but they've won me over. Among a friend group, where joining the stream also implies joining the voice chat, I find myself being drawn in when someone is streaming. It's great for: waiting for a round to end before you can join the group, reviewing replays as a group, "hey check out this cool thing", just seeing what's up with a game a few people are trying out, or (especially in post-covid19 world) just hanging out when you don't/can't (eg, eating) play at the moment but want some socialization. Combined with video chat and it makes a good platform for socially distant jackbox games - it just works compared to other video chats which seem optimized for slide shows and fail at streaming a game smoothly with audio.