Amazon bought twitch, and amazon owns a giant music library and often mutes and shuts down streams or suspends for copyrighted music playing. Then their hypocrisy of their community guidelines see the yandere dev fiasco, shitty support that rivals steams old days where you would wait days to get a response email. The overpriced subscription models, their shitty video player that just doesn't work sometimes when it comes to embedding. Girls doing camwhore esq tactics and shit to get viewers and witch ignoring these people because they get a slice of their pie in revenue even though they breaking the rules. They can also ban games and completely destroy their chance of getting a presence hurting indys and development studios. Fucking hitbox is better than twitch, I just use youtube streaming because I already have an account setup and ease of acess.
Twitch has way better discoverability and you can start making money once you got 100(?) followers. I doubt that YouTube will be more tolerant concerning copyright violations, considering how they handle it with videos. Can't argue with that.
AND, twitch has a max bitrate of 5mbps, so you can't really stream 1080p 60fps with that. AND, to get VOD you need to be a twitch partern.
https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/2785927-joining-the-affiliate-program#FAQ3 https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/4umwoi/what_is_the_real_max_bitrate_allowed_now/ VODs are available for everyone, they are called highlights. Past broadcasts get deleted after a set amount of time, as per the first link.
Actually nevermind, it must have been processing by segments of 2 hours because now the entire livestream is available.
Unless there is some second-hand definition of video on demand circulating the web that I am not aware of, Twitch has full VOD functionality. Past broadcasts are kept for two weeks (and more if partnered), highlights stay archived forever, and you can upload your own videos to stay up until they're removed by hand too. This is basically what putting a small bit of time into researching the links I provided amounts to. But by all means, stay ignorant. The question of bitrates has been addressed by the Twitch staff member in that reddit thread in satisfying detail. As a sidenote, you can stream 720p60 with just 3500 bitrate and it will look very good. Viewing 1080p60 streams is still beyond the reach of many viewers, which is why big streamers are either sticking to 720p or trying slightly lower resolutions, like 900p60, to maximise quality but maintain lower bitrates.
Here, the 1st one has fucked audio. I diden't bother to check it and learned that mistake. The 2nd video I fixed and has ingame audio besides my reeee'ing. https://u.nya.is/tljyya.webm Here is the highlight.