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Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay
The broadcaster can't control the ad that plays when a user loads a stream on Twitch. As a result, you get high school and middle school kids watching a Call of Duty ad where someone gets tortured. This is the issue I ran into last year when I was running NE FIRST's webcasts.
If you don't have enough viewers, Twitch will also disable transcoding, forcing users to watch the stream at its source resolution regardless of their internet speed.
Additionally, FRC is technically not a video game and Twitch has removed FRC streams (and accounts) in the past for that reason.
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FYI, all of these concerns [disabling or offering control over ads, full transcodes, special categorization] are solvable and are things that Twitch takes care of for partners and special events on a regular basis. All totally solvable.
The stream for Chezy has really shined when things are working well but uptime has been wanting. Venue internet can be a struggle for sure.
One thing I miss is being able to watch on my phone or tablet; with the Twitch/YouTube apps this is very easy. But the embedded player is Flash, not HTML5, so I haven't been able to watch on mobile. I haven't tried to grab the manifest and play it back in another video player.