Diablohead
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The word Mixer makes me think of music before anything else.
Blog Post
https://blog.mixer.com/welcome/?ocid=Evergreen_soc_omc_xbo_tw_video_lrn_5.25.1
Xbox E3 will be streamed in 4K on there.
Just open the Twitch app?
Should be a settings button on the stream itself.I was watching a Overwatch stream and the quality was shit. On Twitch you can easily change between quality. How do i do that here?
I was watching a Overwatch stream and the quality was shit. On Twitch you can easily change between quality. How do i do that here?
Should be a settings button on the stream itself.
I'd assume that was on the streamer, partnered streamers have the ability for you to switch quality but not non-partnered streamers (at least that I've seen). If it was there should be a cog you can click when highlighting the stream if they have the option.
On Twitch they allow non-partnered streamers to have quality changes now also, but only if you have so many viewers. It's still not 100% and is still something Twitch needs to get fixed too.
Honestly, I don't really like the order of the Tabs:
I really hope they change the order so I can have Home, Community and Store as the first 3 options. Or just give me a toggle to get rid of OneGuide and Mixer.
I visited the mixer webpage to see what was up and viewing a stream took about 3 minutes because the webpage was forever loading something along the top and well, not doing much, once I did get in an overlaying popup box was asking me to sign in or sign up every time I clicked my mouse on the page.
The layout reminds me of youtube gaming which is bad.
For all the stick I have given twitch over the years they are in a very good position right now and I can usually load up a stream in a matter of seconds from my follow list.
Yes, found it!
It's called low latency and was enabled. I turned it off and it was crisp.
But it really seems you can't hide the chat, that sucks.
I wonder how long it will be till twitch integrates these features. It will and then all mixer will be left with is a terrible name.
But...there's nobody on it. That's the big problem. The platform itself seems solid with some pretty great features, but without the people there behind it it's all worthless. And there's no real incentive to switch - why would you stream on a platform with a much lower chance of views than one which has hundreds of thousands of visitors a day.
Why do Microsoft buy brand names (nokia being the main one) and then change the brand, seems bizarre to me
Beam makes much more sense!
Why do Microsoft buy brand names (nokia being the main one) and then change the brand, seems bizarre to me
Beam makes much more sense!
Why do Microsoft buy brand names (nokia being the main one) and then change the brand, seems bizarre to me
Beam makes much more sense!
And this is the biggest problem. MS need to start doling out the cash to big streamers.
OR ME!
Again, legal reasons. Do people not read the thread? Bizarre.
I always read your posts as Jack Black. Fits perfectly.
BEAM or now Mixer, absolutely decimates Twitch imo.
Its super fast, intuitive, no lag and just effortless to use all round.
With these features, its on another level.
So the Bing of streaming? MS should learn that the XB brand isn't enough to push big services.
https://watchbeam.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000638643-Streaming-With-OBS-FTL
was the pre-Mixer page about it but the Github link to get OBS-FTL is broken right now it seems
Are you using OBS-FTL with the low latency settings on?
Microsoft is really knocking it out the park lately with renaming their stuff with shit names.
Guess Scorpio being The New Xbox or Xbox 2 is a given.
And then Mixer will come up with more features to copy. Competition 101.
I don't understand the naming change, and their email's just like "this allows more people to enjoy it." Is Beam an offense in Albanian culture or something? Why, exactly, is Mixer better than Beam? I liked Beam.
Yeah but as has been said, the public consciousnesses of this service is non existent and I don't see that changing
So all 2nd place companies out there who aren't as well known to the public as their competition should just quit now?
Yeah but as has been said, the public consciousnesses of this service is non existent and I don't see that changing
So the Bing of streaming? MS should learn that the XB brand isn't enough to push big services.
No not at all, I am just saying that its a distant third to youtube these days for live streamer and the name will not really change that opinion because mixer sounds like a damn dating app.
It's somehow is getting missed very often. They couldn't use Beam and grow the brand. Also, you don't need to be the most popular to be profitable. Otherwise, iOS would be considered a failure globally.
I mean at one time MS tried to buy Yahoo and failed. People considered Bing a dumb idea. Now Yahoo is a distant third. Bing was powering stuff like Siri. Grew at a rapid rate due to Windows 10. It also meant they were able to make Cortana more competitive with Google's voice search since data powers these virtual assistants. I'm not saying this as someone who thinks Bing is better than Google. I'm just saying they made a lot out of the second place search.
Beam/Mixer doesn't have to beat Twitch. It simply has to benefit Microsoft. The interactive stuff and low latency tech could be used to stream games/apps to future devices. They can use it as a broadcasting platform for non-gaming streams. They can integrate it with Hololens to stream from the headset, etc. So again, I'm not saying Mixer/Beam will ever beat Twitch or become a household name but there is more to the acquisition sometimes than what is right in front of us.
Do you have flash enabled? If so, try disabling flash in your browser and letting it run with HTML5 instead and see if that works any better. Also, there seems to be some bugs/stability problems with the new layout change so it could just be some growing pains at the moment. Hopefully they get things sorted out quickly.
You can hide chat (at least on PC) by mousing over the chat just to the right side of the stream's scroll bar (not chat's scroll bar) and some blue lines should appear that let you resize the chat window.
Microsoft really blows at naming products. Beam sounded better than Mixer.