Tag: Twitch video player

Twitch has been trying to develop ways for broadcasters to supplement their regular live broadcasts with other kinds of content. Twitch added playlists for certain users to have content available on their channels when they were live and some streamers just manually re-streamed their previous casts but Twitch has decided to take that into their […]

Twitch has finally lifted the bitrate cap, previously 3.5 mbps (3500 kbps) to a recommended range of 3-6 mbps and set some general guidelines for achieving a good-looking 1080p broadcast. Firstly, to help scale the higher bitrate cap, Twitch is making more granular quality options available for viewers. Instead of low, medium, high, and source, more […]

It’s the feature on Twitch we’ve all been waiting for: HTML5 video. While the video controls have been HTML5 for months now, the streams have persisted in Flash, which is outdated, resource intensive, and less secure than HTML5. It was announced at TwitchCon that HTML5 would arrive by Quarter 2 of 2016 (today being the […]