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> 6Mbps is Twitches recommended ingest bitrate, and their highest quality just serves the ingested stream back to viewers without transcoding. Interesting, I w
by littlestymaar 2y ago
> 6Mbps is Twitches recommended ingest bitrate, and their highest quality just serves the ingested stream back to viewers without transcoding.
Interesting, I wouldn't have guessed that it would make sense for them with regard to bandwidth cost. TIL, thanks.
- jsheard 2y agoIt's a trade-off between bandwidth and encoding capacity. Twitch actually only guarentees transcoding for "partnered" streamers above a certain viewership threshold, so when watching a smaller streamer you might only be able to view the "source" quality if there isn't enough encoding capacity to go around.
- littlestymaar 2y agoThat makes sense.