Damn i just had fiber yesterday, i had some lag with my previous dsl internet, but now it's out of control. I have fiber 100/50mbits and it's working flawlessly everywhere else.

I just tried Mark West youtube video and R1ch twichproxy program, but none seems to fix my problem. I am pretty sure a vpn would fix it, do you guys know something free/cheap and working well with twitch i could try?

Yesterday i was streaming and watching my stream while streaming, it was super lagy but no viewers complain, after i stopped i watched my VOD and there was no lag. How crazy is that i can stream fine, but not watch my own stream without lag... xD

Cyro

United Kingdom20319 Posts

August 02 2013 20:04 GMT

#224

ROG unwatchable for me with/without this now, i get two or three frames per engagement (over 10 seconds or more) often

ahswtini

Northern Ireland22208 Posts

August 03 2013 16:26 GMT

#225

I've been having problems connecting to streams, there's like a 25% chance that a stream will load. This is with and without the Twitchproxy script. I keep getting the client: disconnected line. Any idea what's up?

Sevre

Ireland619 Posts

August 03 2013 18:38 GMT

#226

Just started having problems with this, Twitch seems to disconnect me and refuse to load streams if I'm running Twitchproxy.

MCMXVI

Norway1193 Posts

August 03 2013 18:40 GMT

#227

^ Guise, its your internet, mkay!

MaxViktory

Sweden136 Posts

August 07 2013 07:45 GMT

#228

This worked really well for like two weeks but now, when I start it I get an error message saying "can't open app for code injection". I have tried downloading it again. R1CH, what should I do?

Dracolich70

Denmark3820 Posts

August 08 2013 08:27 GMT

#229

On August 07 2013 16:45 MaxViktory wrote:
This worked really well for like two weeks but now, when I start it I get an error message saying "can't open app for code injection". I have tried downloading it again. R1CH, what should I do?

I get the same message as well. My best and unqualified guess is that Twitch fixed this fix. All I am waiting for is a bigger dog to eat this smaller dog, as I have grown tired of lagging on a 50/50 connection. Twitch was acceptable until Own3D closed its doors.

Edit: There might be a solution, but I think that would flip the bird to a bunch of sites, including this one, and we wouldn't want that.

Ropid

Germany3557 Posts

August 08 2013 10:26 GMT

#230

You get that message if you start the program without Google Chrome being open. If Chrome is already open, there's no error message and it works.

Dracolich70

Denmark3820 Posts

August 08 2013 13:27 GMT

#231

On August 08 2013 19:26 Ropid wrote:

Show nested quote +

You get that message if you start the program without Google Chrome being open. If Chrome is already open, there's no error message and it works.

It used to work with Opera, but now I get this message. But I see that you are correct when it comes to Chrome, though I assumed he would know, since he had been using it for 2 weeks.

scottyyy

United Kingdom796 Posts

August 08 2013 20:01 GMT

#232

Thank you R1CH, this works amazingly for me. Twitch has been so frustrating for me recently, I haven't been able to watch barely anything in the last week or two. Not one bit of lag since I've used this proxy.

Eirin

Norway12 Posts

August 08 2013 20:10 GMT

#233

On July 09 2013 04:35 R1CH wrote:
So there's been a lot of complaints about twitch's poor performance recently. While they are to blame for some of it (lack of European data centers and other POPs), I suspect a lot of the problems stem from Flash player and poor TCP/IP tuning. I wrote a program to analyze how fast Flash player is able to receive the data and it did appear to stall from time to time, which may affect how TCP RWIN tuning over higher BDP connections (ie, Europe to US) works, potentially causing too small of a window size.

This program will intercept RTMP connections and handle the networking separately from Flash player using an event based system for maximum performance. If Flash player is unable to read the data fast enough, it will be buffered (up to 4MB). Additionally, a larger initial receive window is attempted.

Fortunately / unfortunately my own connection rarely lags, so I have limited data to see if this has any effect, but from my sample size of kollin, it appears to improve things a little so why not give it a try!

Requirements:
Visual Studio 2010 Runtimes
Google Chrome
Pepper Flash (Chrome's internal flash player, unless you change it this is the default)
Windows 7

Download:
http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/R1CH/TwitchProxy.zip

Put both files in a folder somewhere and run Chrome, then run TwitchProxy. You can tell if it works by watching the console, when a stream is open you should see it spamming away about buffers. If it breaks and you can't browse anything, just restart Chrome - all changes are applied in-memory only. If you restart Chrome completely, you will also need to restart the proxy for it to apply to the new Chrome process.

Note that this program is pretty much an experiment so treat it as such.

Thank you. Seemed to work great while watching WCS Europe. Will recommend it.

Occy

United States1 Post

August 10 2013 00:08 GMT

#234

Made an account just to say this works very well. I still get lag spike about every 5 min but that is better then what it was. On busy twitch nights/days the lag is unwatchable. Thank you!

ReactoR

Sweden72 Posts

August 10 2013 19:35 GMT

#235

Doesn't seem to help me much. TI3 has been unwatchable on 1080p for me this week. Decided to try your fix. However I seem to be at mercy of the server I get routed to. I refreshed until I got one that seemed to work decently but it went crappy after 5-10min or so.

It never buffers more than ~20KB and it's normally 1-10 even when it lags. I'm on a gigabit connection (Sweden) so my net should be a non-issue.

Print of some numbers: + Show Spoiler +

cool_slowbro

Sweden97 Posts

August 11 2013 01:57 GMT

#236

1080p is literally unwatchable (constant video stutters, sound still working) despite having 100/10 fiber interwebs. Not sure what the file in OP does but I'll give it a spin.

Dundercover

Sweden1 Post

August 11 2013 15:00 GMT

#237

Cannot get it to work, the console doesn't log anything when i start the .exe with Chrome open. I'm using the default flash player but cannot install the Visual Studio 2010 Runtimes as I already have a newer version of it installed.

Would be nice to try this out as I always experience stuttering on twitch (I have a very nice and stable 100/100 connection but I live in Sweden).

Ropid

Germany3557 Posts

August 11 2013 15:21 GMT

#238

On August 12 2013 00:00 Dundercover wrote:
Cannot get it to work, the console doesn't log anything when i start the .exe with Chrome open. I'm using the default flash player but cannot install the Visual Studio 2010 Runtimes as I already have a newer version of it installed.

Would be nice to try this out as I always experience stuttering on twitch (I have a very nice and stable 100/100 connection but I live in Sweden).

It hooks into the Flash that comes with Chrome, not the one that's installed by Adobe in C:\Windows.

YounKa

Poland23 Posts

August 12 2013 21:48 GMT

#239

Seems like something is blocking the connection for me or twitch just denied the proxy. Getting connect failures and twitch video is not loading at all

. Bummer, was excited for that no lag experience.

Ropid

Germany3557 Posts

August 12 2013 22:08 GMT

#240

On August 13 2013 06:48 YounKa wrote:
Seems like something is blocking the connection for me or twitch just denied the proxy. Getting connect failures and twitch video is not loading at all

. Bummer, was excited for that no lag experience.

works for me (just tried with the WCS_America stream)