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Twitch EU Lag Fix - Chrome Extension

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R1CH
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Netherlands10342 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-02 23:07:40
November 02 2013 23:51 GMT
#1
UPDATE: This extension has been discontinued. As a result of Twitch changing their video system to HTTP instead of RTMP, this extension does not help nearly as much and will actually cause problems for some people instead of improving things.

+ Show Spoiler +
In my quest to reduce the amount of lag I experience on Twitch streams in Europe, I discovered that the European Twitch servers seem to perform worse than the US servers for me. So I developed a Chrome extension that uses some proxy trickery to try to redirect your connection to a US Twitch server. This has resulted in a massive improvement in my ability to watch Twitch lag-free. Maybe it will for you too! Give it a try!

Version 2.0 (2013-11-25):
No longer conflicts with any other proxy extensions such as Mediahint, Hola, etc. Yay!

Install:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twitchtv-europe-lag-fix/hkoehmlkhjgaboegkondkciclminpjof?hl=en

+ Show Spoiler [FireFox Instructions] +

Firefox is no longer supported.


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RiSkysc2
Profile Joined September 2011
696 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-03 00:02:01
November 03 2013 00:01 GMT
#2
If enough people use this, surely NA will suffer the same problems EU does?

Also, will this work on my phone?
Flaiker
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany235 Posts
November 03 2013 00:01 GMT
#3
Seems to be working great for me. Couldnt watch WCS America before at all.
...
WhizPower
Profile Joined June 2013
Netherlands33 Posts
November 03 2013 00:03 GMT
#4
Trying it out right now

Your Experimental Twitch Proxy stopped working like 2 months ago for me though.
tomastaz
Profile Joined January 2013
United States976 Posts
November 03 2013 00:09 GMT
#5
Thanks man!
No church in the wild --- @tzhang0126
FlukyS
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Ireland485 Posts
November 03 2013 00:24 GMT
#6
Thank fuck this came before the WCS finals. Thanks R1CH.
zYwi3c
Profile Joined November 2010
Poland1811 Posts
November 03 2013 00:49 GMT
#7
You are truly a wizard R1CH !
I'm getting the derection.
seodoth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands319 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-03 00:57:35
November 03 2013 00:56 GMT
#8
in the twitchproxy.exe i keep getting a "connect request to" followed by "connect failure, 10060" and "--- disconnected ---"
KeksX
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany3634 Posts
November 03 2013 01:04 GMT
#9
Works like a charm so far! GJ!
calippo
Profile Joined March 2011
Sweden2525 Posts
November 03 2013 01:28 GMT
#10
well done R1CH, a single person doing a better job then twitch. I hope they are happy with the new datacenters they put up in europe that didnt do shit, well spent money when they could have hired you
in it for the game not for the .... - PMS Army. [WUFC-SDK. VIM. PMS]
Wiggins8
Profile Joined October 2013
Germany107 Posts
November 03 2013 01:29 GMT
#11
Firefox... ???
Thalandros
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
Netherlands1151 Posts
November 03 2013 01:38 GMT
#12
Not sure if this is supposed to be the result and if this is even possible but I can watch in 1080p whereas I usually had to scale it down to ''high'' (mostly 720p i assume). Thanks a bunch, R1CH!
|| ''I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.'' ||
bogderpirat
Profile Joined April 2011
Jordan66 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-03 01:38:35
November 03 2013 01:38 GMT
#13
shouldn't it be possible to ship the pac file with the extension and link it internally? a possibly arbitrary proxy configuration script based on some url isn't something i'll trust entirely.

and who is running that proxy? are they collecting the subscription tokens of people who have a subscription?

aside from all of that, it doesn't seem to help me in particular; still getting the usual lags.
if khaldor had boobs, i'd hit him
icydergosu
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
528 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-03 03:01:34
November 03 2013 01:41 GMT
#14
Does anybody know which domain does the actual geochecks?

update:
www.twitch.tv
usher.twitch.tv
I am the Punishment of God. If you had not commited great sins, god would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
EpeenKingPrime
Profile Joined February 2012
Netherlands61 Posts
November 03 2013 01:52 GMT
#15
Which ISP do you have Rich? Mine is UPC living in Eindhoven.

I have used the vlc mobile_high fix and that sometimes helps, not always since when VLC starts being more than 20 sec behind real time it starts lagging way more.

Thanks, trying the proxy extension right now.
chrippa
Profile Joined September 2007
Sweden15 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-03 01:58:57
November 03 2013 01:58 GMT
#16
You may want to add a disclaimer that this should only be used if you trust R1CH. Since this is a proxy all your cookies are sent to his server and could be used to hijack your user session.
bogderpirat
Profile Joined April 2011
Jordan66 Posts
November 03 2013 01:58 GMT
#17
mobile streams were great until everyone started using them D:
if khaldor had boobs, i'd hit him
Suede
Profile Blog Joined September 2013
Sweden9 Posts
November 03 2013 02:00 GMT
#18
For some reason the stream is lagging more on high than before, although Source is almost lagfree.

Thanks for the great add-on, will definitively be used!
Noocta
Profile Joined June 2010
France12578 Posts
November 03 2013 02:19 GMT
#19
How telling it is about Twitch EU infrastructure that I get better viewer experience by using servers that are thousands of kilometers away from my place than the one next door...
" I'm not gonna fight you. I'm gonna kick your ass ! "
Liquid`Ret
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Netherlands4522 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-03 02:27:19
November 03 2013 02:27 GMT
#20
This fix made all twitch streams watchable again for me, whereas before I could not watch anything without lag, even on some of the lowest settings...

so awesome, r1ch!!! <3
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