Possible Twitch Streaming Solution

Zassie

Zassie

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Hi guys,

So i recently started streaming to twitch now that i have fibre. But there has always been the issue of ingest servers just being too far away but more importantly having horrific throughput. This in turn would translate to low quality streams that constantly lose frames.

My connection to the EU is great yet to Twitch ingest servers it hard to come by anything with a stable throughput.
https://i.imgur.com/qyu8kry.png

Introducing restream.
Effectively a company that hosts it's own ingest servers that can then transfer your video to multiple platforms at once!
There list is huge and includes the likes of Twitch and YouTube.

Using the London ingest server i get speeds in the 40mpbs range which is perfect!
https://imgur.com/a/PGSJ7 (Using their built in speed test)

Naturally there will still be a bit of frame loss due to distance, however it is far less than i have ever gotten on twitch.
and yes, there will be a few seconds of delay added to your stream, but i would rather stream at a 4000 bitrate with a bit of a delay than have to deal with twitch and having more issues at an even lower bitrate.

Best part? The Service is FREE!

I would really appreciate if any of you streamers find this helpful to pop into my channel and give me a follow :D (Shameless plug)


Take a look:
Link (referral) : https://restream.io/?ref=vQ6N5
Link : https://restream.io
Twitch Channel: https://twitch.tv/zassie
 
That can be a solution did see it a while back. I find streaming to youtube waaay better. Not only can you stream in very good quality without any buffering you get more hits. I get random hits when I stream forza horizon from my xbox one.

Youtube suggest live streams to people that has viewing history of that content so you get viewers without even trying. You also get listed on the gaming.youtube.com page.

I suggest you give it a go :)
 
cavedog said:
That can be a solution did see it a while back. I find streaming to youtube waaay better. Not only can you stream in very good quality without any buffering you get more hits. I get random hits when I stream forza horizon from my xbox one.

Youtube suggest live streams to people that has viewing history of that content so you get viewers without even trying. You also get listed on the gaming.youtube.com page.

I suggest you give it a go :)
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I shall look into it ^.^ Remember re-stream can do both at the same time :D

P.S Thanks for the follow <3
 
The servers seems to be way better than even the youtube ingest server ;)

restream.io_speed.png
 
DJZassie said:
I hate you for having external fibre! xD
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On Aeonova 360 with their own fibre network and on their own ISP A360 and I must say wow. 100/100 line but it never goes less than 110Mbps up and down. They use Seacom as a bandwidth provider so my fibre goes straight to seacom cable and jumps overseas. 158ms to the UK from Centurion.

Very nice. I don't even have usage stats and it's just unlimited no matter what traffic. Very very nice. I have the option to switch to cool ideas with my fibre line staying on Aeonova360 but they been so good I decided to stay for now.
 
cavedog said:
On Aeonova 360 with their own fibre network and on their own ISP A360 and I must say wow. 100/100 line but it never goes less than 110Mbps up and down. They use Seacom as a bandwidth provider so my fibre goes straight to seacom cable and jumps overseas. 158ms to the UK from Centurion.

Very nice. I don't even have usage stats and it's just unlimited no matter what traffic. Very very nice. I have the option to switch to cool ideas with my fibre line staying on Aeonova360 but they been so good I decided to stay for now.
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Do they just use Seacom?
 
Soul Assassin said:
Do they just use Seacom?
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Are you talking about seacom cable or seacom as their upstream provider.

Aeonova360 fibre you can choose A360 their own, cool ideas, accelerit, greencom or a few others as ISP.

I'm with their own fivre network on their own ISP A360. They use seacom as their upstream provider and them I'm pretty sure they would use seacom cable as their main but I'm sure they might have a backup because my international does not go down when the cable is going for maintenance or has a fault so I would need to check where they route the traffic if the cable goes down but when it's working they only use seacom cable and seacom routes into EU from LON to NL it's all seacom peering that is why my latency is so good far into europe. Like from UK to NL is just a few ms more but the routing is all seacom.
 
cavedog said:
Are you talking about seacom cable or seacom as their upstream provider.

Aeonova360 fibre you can choose A360 their own, cool ideas, accelerit, greencom or a few others as ISP.

I'm with their own fibre network on their own ISP A360. They use seacom as their upstream provider and them I'm pretty sure they would use seacom cable as their main but I'm sure they might have a backup because my international does not go down when the cable is going for maintenance or has a fault so I would need to check where they route the traffic if the cable goes down but when it's working they only use seacom cable and seacom routes into EU from LON to NL it's all seacom peering that is why my latency is so good far into europe. Like from UK to NL is just a few ms more but the routing is all seacom.
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I was just about to say, I would never use a ISP that uses just Seacom, that cable loves breaking.
 
Twitch streaming is trash. We've been using restream for a few months, but are moving more and more to YouTube. The whole experience (for the watcher) is just way better.
But yeah, restream is cool, and I get my full upstream with it to their Russian server. We generally stream at 7000kbps (1080p 60FPS).
 
roguemat said:
Twitch streaming is trash. We've been using restream for a few months, but are moving more and more to YouTube. The whole experience (for the watcher) is just way better.
But yeah, restream is cool, and I get my full upstream with it to their Russian server. We generally stream at 7000kbps (1080p 60FPS).
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Yes the youtube ingest server is really good. I can do any bitrate no matter how high @ 1080p 60FPS without any frames getting dropped and the viewers have a good experience too as long as they have a decent connection.

Can't stream in 4K yet have to get the proper hardware but I think that would look really good.

I have not checked yet is the ingest server for South Africans local? Also when viewers view the stream within SA are the local CDNs used?
 
If anyone is still looking for a solution in 2019 (this is the first thread that came up when I was researching this issue), here are some tips as well as the details for the local SA twitch ingest server.
 
RecklessBrawler said:
If anyone is still looking for a solution in 2019 (this is the first thread that came up when I was researching this issue), here are some tips as well as the details for the local SA twitch ingest server.
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Nice video Bro well done
 
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