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Streaming issue with HD Fanfest 2013

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DragonGrace
Voyeur Vanguard
#1 - 2013-04-24 21:52:36 UTC  |  Edited by: DragonGrace
hey guys,

first, i wanna say a hearty well done to CCP. over 5000+ viewing at this time and thats awesome.


i however am not able too. i bought the HD stream already, and it kicked me right into 1080+. thats awesome, but it was just a tad laggy, so i went to 720 during the hosts chat at the start and it was super smooth. then the event went to start....the numbers shot up and now even on 240p i cannot watch the stream :( i get a screenshot of it appear now and again but there is no streaming involved at all. occasionally i get a black screen aswell.

i am aware that on stream with high population they can employ a throttling thing. is this the case?

my internet connection is ample. i mean i was 720p streams all the time, the most recently being yesterdays Q and A with the Dust guys. it was flaws....but then again, there wasnt 5000+ people watching it.

i tried restarting my browser, restarting my system and updating flash. what else can i do? i know the issue isnt with my internet connection here.

it will be such a waste of a plex if i cannot stream the weekend :(

edit : AH GREAT! so here was me thinking that the VOD thing that was talked about by CCP Guard could be used on this show. i thought "hey, at least i can buffer it up a bit in my own time when the replay is there"....but NOOOOOO! lol they removed it!
DragonGrace
Voyeur Vanguard
#2 - 2013-04-24 22:34:15 UTC  |  Edited by: DragonGrace
just an update. i have now watched 5 different game stream of populations ranging from 383 people all the way up to 2000+.

at 720p....super smooth. so, its down to the factthat twitch throttles streams at hi population. either that...or its a CCP issue. but im not thinking that so much. it could well be the server from twitch that im connected to maybe? or the one that CCP is setup streaming to perhaps? i dont know how their archetecture is set up.

any thoughts?
DragonGrace
Voyeur Vanguard
#3 - 2013-04-24 23:33:31 UTC
DragonGrace wrote:
just an update. i have now watched 5 different game stream of populations ranging from 383 people all the way up to 2000+.

at 720p....super smooth. so, its down to the factthat twitch throttles streams at hi population. either that...or its a CCP issue. but im not thinking that so much. it could well be the server from twitch that im connected to maybe? or the one that CCP is setup streaming to perhaps? i dont know how their archetecture is set up.

any thoughts?



edit : on the flip side of that, i just went onto a stream for league of legend with over 7000 viewers, and another starcraft heart of the swarm with just short of 9000 viewers on the feed. lagged like hell at 360p. this is an issue CCP!
Akrasjel Lanate
Immemorial Coalescence Administration
Immemorial Coalescence
#4 - 2013-04-25 06:38:37 UTC
Wrong subforum i would gues

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Eugene Kerner
TunDraGon
Goonswarm Federation
#5 - 2013-04-25 08:45:38 UTC
Working as intended. You have your shirt...

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DragonGrace
Voyeur Vanguard
#6 - 2013-04-25 09:10:57 UTC  |  Edited by: DragonGrace
as far as i am aware, there is only this part of the forum for live event discussions. it kinda made sense for me to place my enquiry here.

and what does my tshirt have to do with twitch being unable to handle more than about 5000 viewers before it starts to struggle with new people coming into the stream? i mean, yeh it is pretty, but i dont think it could take down the network potential of such a service :P

edit : again, another thing that shows this is more likely to be a twitch issue. its not uncommon http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/questions/842162-video-buffer-and-lagspikes - http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/questions/717769-choppy-videos - http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/questions/785451-audio-and-video-on-all-streams-stuttering-as-of-today-
DragonGrace
Voyeur Vanguard
#7 - 2013-04-25 13:09:08 UTC
once again, i was watching the 720p stream for the even today. great event.

was fine for about 90minutes, and then i started to get lag spikes. i checked my bandwidth monitor and my downstream traffic was erratic. so i tried a LoL stream at 720p, consistent traffic coming down my line. this feed had 2800 viewers.

the eve fanfest (as of just now) is sitting at jsut over 4500 viewers, and its stuttery at 480p. This is a stream issue. Maybe not CCP's, but Twitch's. This is not an unknown thing for them, and the forums on their site are full of this kinda issue.
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#8 - 2013-04-25 21:42:17 UTC
Moved to General Discussion. And locked, as there is already a stickied thread on the subject.

ISD Ezwal Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)