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.
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!
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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've been VPNing to San Francisco (from France) all of summer because of the abysmal Twitch performance from here (not helped by the ISP (Free) who is also causing problems with YT and Twitch...), but after a quick test, it seems like your extension helps quite a lot. I still got some pauses on the WCS AM stream on high, but few and far between. Which is clearly better than unwatchable lag on low... (and I got the same pauses from SF anyway)
Too bad there's not much to watch this week while waiting for Blizzcon, but it may clearly be a lot of help. I'm not disabling this anytime soon.
I stopped watching basically any stream for the last few months, except for DH and the live parts of WCS, all because of Twitch EU. Even if using a VPN connected to SF helps (a lot), it's still a huge pain in the ass. So since Twitch itself isn't doing much to fix the situation (remember the 3 new datacenters in EU that were supposed to help? Did someone see any improvement?), this extension may very well be *the* solution for now.
Clearly, connecting to Twitch's US servers is much better than going through their EU datacenters. No idea why. Via VPN I tried France, Switzerland, Sweden (in Stockholm, where one of the new datacenters was supposed to help), UK, Spain, ... unbearable lag everywhere. San Francisco? Always watchable, at least on high. I may be bad at geography, but I don't think SF is the closest city... Still, I hope that someday, someone (at Twitch, since ISPs won't ever care about this), will "officially" do something about this...
I'll be linking this to all my previously SC2-watching friends that simply stopped, in (a big) part because of Twitch (not only, but I'm still hoping Blizzard will take care of the other reasons ).
Seems to be working for me, sitting in Sweden. Currently watching a stream that's 720p 3800kbps and it's flawless. I have not been able to watch that stream on Source for months. Thanks a lot for this.
This worked for me in Australia. First time watching a source quality stream in months. so good. must be avoiding the singapore servers i guess? Or twitch just magically fixed itself the second i dropped this into my chrome :O
I used to buy HD passes to almost every event, but stopped a couple of months ago because of the poor Twitch service. With this fix it seems tournaments will be getting my money again.
Lets hope Twitch will truly improve their service in Europe and stop making excuses that it's the customers fault.
yeeaaa, if only it wasn't supporting a crappy browser
Also I still cant believe tournaments don't start using things like dailymotion or other sites more, since twitch has been crappy for soo long and only gets worse, at least for EU
On November 03 2013 19:18 Cinim wrote: Also I still cant believe tournaments don't start using things like dailymotion or other sites more, since twitch has been crappy for soo long and only gets worse, at least for EU
On November 03 2013 11:41 Maniak_ wrote: I've been VPNing to San Francisco (from France) all of summer because of the abysmal Twitch performance from here
I also use a VPN these days, connect to Chicago though. My own connection? Maybe High works. With VPN? Two Source streams no problem.
On November 03 2013 08:51 R1CH wrote: 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.
Used in conjunction with my "Experimental Twitch Proxy", 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!
Some downsides: non-partnered streams seem to be region-locked, so the US server won't allow you to connect. This will result in a 5-10 second delay when loading - the extension will detect that the server didn't let you connect, and send a redirect request so that you connect as normal. It is incompatible with any other PAC extensions (usually country bypass extensions). Also, this may not help at all for you, it's very likely ISP dependent.
That is very interesting because for me it is the other way around. I block the NA servers with a firewall to get a lagfree experience on EU ones. Kind of puzzles me, that it is the other way around for so many people.
On November 03 2013 08:51 R1CH wrote: 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.
Used in conjunction with my "Experimental Twitch Proxy", 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!
Some downsides: non-partnered streams seem to be region-locked, so the US server won't allow you to connect. This will result in a 5-10 second delay when loading - the extension will detect that the server didn't let you connect, and send a redirect request so that you connect as normal. It is incompatible with any other PAC extensions (usually country bypass extensions). Also, this may not help at all for you, it's very likely ISP dependent.
That is very interesting because for me it is the other way around. I block the NA servers with a firewall to get a lagfree experience on EU ones. Kind of puzzles me, that it is the other way around for so many people.
As far as I know, when the EU ones are "filled" twitch redirects you to east coast NA servers, that's probably why. Your ISP probably has decent routes to EU twitch datacenters.
Amazing plug-in. Thank u very much, finally with a 150mb connection I can watch Twitch as I am supposed to watch it. I wonder why 1 single man do it when a whole Twitch team cant fix the issues. Or maybe they just dont bother and focus on thinking of monetizing their website.
On November 03 2013 08:51 R1CH wrote: 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.
Used in conjunction with my "Experimental Twitch Proxy", 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!
Some downsides: non-partnered streams seem to be region-locked, so the US server won't allow you to connect. This will result in a 5-10 second delay when loading - the extension will detect that the server didn't let you connect, and send a redirect request so that you connect as normal. It is incompatible with any other PAC extensions (usually country bypass extensions). Also, this may not help at all for you, it's very likely ISP dependent.
That is very interesting because for me it is the other way around. I block the NA servers with a firewall to get a lagfree experience on EU ones. Kind of puzzles me, that it is the other way around for so many people.
As far as I know, when the EU ones are "filled" twitch redirects you to east coast NA servers, that's probably why. Your ISP probably has decent routes to EU twitch datacenters.
Well, not really. If you open a stream you initiate a connection to a Twitch server at 192.16.71.174 (in the US; probably their main datacenter). It then gives you (I assume via some sort of loadbalancing) a server to connect to. This can be anywhere depending on the result of the load-balancing. What I do is blocking NA ones, so if I get a NA server from a loadbalancer I can't connect and automatically send a new request for a server. It is basically like refreshing the browser window untill I get a server I want.
But that was not what made me wondering. I am just puzzled that for many people NA servers seem good and EU ones bad, while for me it is exactly the other way around.
6 months ago i could watch like 12 "source" streams without issues on my 1gbit connection, but lately anything above high just goes to shit... Not anymore! Source seems to run close to flawless! Thank you so much!
i tested it out, doesn' t seem to change that much. The lag usually appears in the first 30 seconds of stream connection for me, after that it stabilizes and goes away; in the end i would prefer waiting 10 seconds and have that go away. Stupid italian internet, i' m going to try this again
Works amazingly well. Thanky you very much for this miracle. I couldn't watch anything higher than medium during peak hours ,now I can flawlessly wathc Source.
I very appreciate it! I noticed that "source" doesn't have a fix value. low is always at 350kbps, medium at 800kbps and high at 1600kbps. source from artosis is 1623 kbps, elfi with 2372 kbps.
Any comments on twitch about this yet? A single (awesome) guy made their streams watchable again in Europe, while their whole tech team couldn't or neglected it for at least half a year.
All he did is re route all the EU people to NA servers, establishing servers is much more expensive, timely and complicated. Not saying that i'd be able to do what R1CH did, but compared to what twitch may or may not be trying to do to fix the current EU situation, it's not that difficult.
could you please do also the version that disables usa servers? required for those eu users who experience lag on usa servers. that's a common situation aswell.
Wow, that works unbelievably well. Just tried a stream without it, couldnt even watch on medium. Now with the extension, i can watch on source. Many thanks!
Small update, this thing actually works for me when I watch american streams (for example idra now), source quality nice steady 3mbps download. But any european stream lags just as much as without this extension.
On November 04 2013 05:00 aerial wrote: Small update, this thing actually works for me when I watch american streams (for example idra now), source quality nice steady 3mbps download. But any european stream lags just as much as without this extension.
Perhaps they are non-partnered streams(no quality selection) like R1ch described?
No, they were partners, any big stream, including major tournaments. I wonder how long will it take for them to fix it, so you can smoothly watch any quality you want if you have enough bandwidth. I'm having big problems with twitch for like half year already.
On November 03 2013 09:01 RiSkysc2 wrote: If enough people use this, surely NA will suffer the same problems EU does?
Also, will this work on my phone?
Probably not, I'm not positive but I imagine the twitch lag is because of the lack of servers in EU to handle the load, while NA surely has more which should balance the load better.
I need to do more tests but it seems it blocks most of my utorrent traffic, when I close chrome/the stream tab my torrent traffic is back to normal and it stops again if I watch a stream. I didn't test that much tho so it could be a coincidence.
this is so good. i havent been able watch almost any streams without constant lag. dunno what twitch have been doing during all this time. thanks a lot rich!
It's working pretty good for me, but right now is the first time I'm having problems. dreamleague lags terribly even with the plugin.I assume it's not working at all cause it takes a very long time to actually start the stream, and I assume thats the behavior you desribed when the stream isn't partnered. Then again the stream I'm speaking of is partnered (you can select a wide range of stream qualities).
edit: might be a stream issue, as it works perfectly on high. It says "High" and not High (720p, x kbps etc.)
Yeah, some partnered streams are still region locked. Not sure what the exact criteria is for when a stream is region locked or not, that's something only Twitch knows. I can confirm that dreamleague is region locked.
anyways for anybody wondering if the plugin is working: If it says Source, High etc. only then the plugin is not working. If it works than it will show more details about the selected quality (resolution, bitrate and another option)
So depressing having two streams open side by side and the one, where the plugin works runs perfect on source and the other, region locked stream, lags on medium.
I also dont understand why twitch employees on their forum keep saying its not twitchs fault and that people should talk to their ISP's. Which is obviously bullshit.
Is your server in Chicago going to be able to handle all this user traffic ? Anyway, this fix working just proves how bad the Twitch service is. I'm trying to understand how this could make sense but I don't since they said that when EU was saturated they already loadbalanced you to NA servers. Twitch, it's time to buy some F5's.
On November 05 2013 04:04 RouaF wrote: Is your server in Chicago going to be able to handle all this user traffic ? Anyway, this fix working just proves how bad the Twitch service is. I'm trying to understand how this could make sense but I don't since they said that when EU was saturated they already loadbalanced you to NA servers. Twitch, it's time to buy some F5's.
It only needs to handle the server selection logic, which is a few KB per connection. You still receive the stream directly from Twitch, just from their US servers.
Work perfectly on streams coming from USA, I'm watching D2L on Source for the first time and it runs smoothly without any hickups. But I still cant watch streams coming from Europe on source, earlier today the stream from GD studio was stuttering, but I guess this extension doesnt fix European streams. Still, a great extension, thank you so much!
hmm, it works great but it seems to block some of the facebook features like messages and alerts. the page just wont load. if i open it in firefox, it works again. any way to fix that?
On November 05 2013 03:52 exoduas wrote: So depressing having two streams open side by side and the one, where the plugin works runs perfect on source and the other, region locked stream, lags on medium.
I also dont understand why twitch employees on their forum keep saying its not twitchs fault and that people should talk to their ISP's. Which is obviously bullshit.
With livestreamer you can watch source quality twitch streams without lag on your vlc player. I been watching it like this for a long time because I refuse to install flash player on my computer.
Just type in cmd > livestreamer - twitch url - source (without the - obviously).
On November 06 2013 03:15 Technique wrote: With livestreamer you can watch source quality twitch streams without lag on your vlc player. I been watching it like this for a long time because I refuse to install flash player on my computer.
Just type in cmd > livestreamer - twitch url - source (without the - obviously).
'livestreamer' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
So the instruction is incomplete. I assume it should start at install VLC, install... go to certain place on computer in cmd...
On November 06 2013 04:13 Yurie wrote: This doesn't work for me any longer. Worked great the first day. Since then I can't load any streams at all with it enabled.
The same streams work (with normal lag) after disabling this extension.
-- Ads still work just fine.
-- Tried it using both built in flash player and adobe flash player, disabling them separately.
Any suggestions?
I have the same problem as you, 20 minutes ago it was working fine, now it doesnt load
Sometimes it loads, but not longer with the quality information and with lag (i guess it conected with eu servers).
Doesn't work anymore Got my old lag back. And indeed, now you mention it, ads are lag free, always have been actually.
It worked so great until now. My guess is twitch doesn't want all those Europeans using the wrong server and did something to prevent it and kicked us back to our laggy servers?
With the partnered streams where this doesn't work, it doesn't seem to be based on location. I have watched a lot of EU streams where this works. It just seems like WCS, Dreamleague and maybe a few other don't work.
On November 06 2013 03:15 Technique wrote: With livestreamer you can watch source quality twitch streams without lag on your vlc player. I been watching it like this for a long time because I refuse to install flash player on my computer.
Just type in cmd > livestreamer - twitch url - source (without the - obviously).
'livestreamer' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
So the instruction is incomplete. I assume it should start at install VLC, install... go to certain place on computer in cmd...
On November 06 2013 04:29 MetricYAO wrote: With the partnered streams where this doesn't work, it doesn't seem to be based on location. I have watched a lot of EU streams where this works. It just seems like WCS, Dreamleague and maybe a few other don't work.
Yeah it's very weird. Newly created channels even when partnered seem to have region-locked tokens, that's the only kind of pattern I've seen.
Insane how well this works. I could never watch Twitch streams on "source" (1080p), and I knew it was not due to limited bandwidth on my part. Non-partnered streams have no quality options and mostly stream this quality by default, so I could basically never watch any non-partnered streams. Now it all works without any problems.
I will love you forever!
I use it on Firefox btw.
edit: Nvm just found it doesnt work with non-partnered streams. Still great though.
First of all, thanks a lot R1CH this is amazing and has allowed me to watch 3 streams on "source" during eu primetime although I couldn't even watch 1 stream in high lagfree without it.
Is there a way to get an icon on the topright extension bar to manually enable/disable it for when i need it? Because it fucks with my other proxies (proxmate, hola unblocker) which I use to watch things like youtube, netflix etc which are blocked in good ol germany.
On November 06 2013 03:15 Technique wrote: With livestreamer you can watch source quality twitch streams without lag on your vlc player. I been watching it like this for a long time because I refuse to install flash player on my computer.
Just type in cmd > livestreamer - twitch url - source (without the - obviously).
'livestreamer' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
So the instruction is incomplete. I assume it should start at install VLC, install... go to certain place on computer in cmd...
Can watch Source without lags now, at least on some random stream. Tried with and without it, without the addon the source quality dropped a few frames here and there but with addon enabled it was smooth.
Thanks!
It's stupid the way it is, but I imagine this is at least partly because transit bandwidth (transatlantic, for example) costs and arm and a leg whereas peering with ISPs is free (generally). So, obviously Twitch would prefer if all the major European ISPs peered with their EU datacenter. This way, they only need to send one stream to this DC and everyone in the area gets served by that DC for a very very low cost per mbps. When all of us are using Twitch US servers, they are sending orders of magnitude more data across the pond and will get charged for it by their upstream provider. I assume this is why they ask you to "contact your ISP".
On November 06 2013 17:09 AsnSensation wrote: First of all, thanks a lot R1CH this is amazing and has allowed me to watch 3 streams on "source" during eu primetime although I couldn't even watch 1 stream in high lagfree without it.
Is there a way to get an icon on the topright extension bar to manually enable/disable it for when i need it? Because it fucks with my other proxies (proxmate, hola unblocker) which I use to watch things like youtube, netflix etc which are blocked in good ol germany.
Try one of the following extensions: Extensions Manager One-Click Extensions Manager
I had some issues in the beginning. Like the sound would work flawless, but every 20s or so, it would lag. After I closed Chrome and retried. Everything now works smoothly on Source. DAMN! Thank you R1CH. Blizzcon here we come.
On November 08 2013 03:20 hoop1 wrote: Can someone make a FF addon please?
You can configure it yourself. If automatic keeps resetting download one of the various proxy programs and set it up the same way as the text file .pac that is in the OP. You would need to update when/if the IPs change though.
I'll be damned, it is actually working. Im using .pac file in firefox. Super simple solution to incredibly annoying problem. Now I can watch any stream in source quality without stutter. Thanks R1CH !
Between this and proxy with some refreshes and quality changes to change server (easier with text near quality to ID them etc), first stutter/freeze free event day since i can remember. Proxy tool helped a little, but not consistently, this seems to work really well so far. Thanks!
I must thank for this great thing R1CH created. Had a "barcraft" at my house yesterday, invited couple of friends to watch WCS finals on TV. Had a lag, so i tried this extension... No lag at all at source quality. Great evening. So, THANK YOU R1CH!!!
I would not advise to use a pac file off an untrusted external url. Just download the pac file and run it offline. This way you will know it can't be modified to do something else.
Hi, the fix is definitly working for me on firefox... but actually i still have big lags ; the quality of stream doesn't matter. Of course it doesn't help i'm suscribed to the french provider "Free.fr", and even with optic fiber connection, streams are like unwatchable at "big hours" for me, even on low settings...
Still, thanks R1CH for trying ! U're definitly the best !
I've encountered some sort of bug where the extension will stop working until I remove the old installation and reinstall it from the chrome store. Kinda annoying to have to do it every few days. Anyone got this bug as well and found a permanent solution so you don't have to reinstall it every now and then?
On November 11 2013 03:37 Kraazor wrote: I've encountered some sort of bug where the extension will stop working until I remove the old installation and reinstall it from the chrome store. Kinda annoying to have to do it every few days. Anyone got this bug as well and found a permanent solution so you don't have to reinstall it every now and then?
I think I've got the same problem.
It suddenly stopped working yesterday, then today it worked for a while (maybe 30 min) and now it stopped again. I just reinstalled like you said and now it's fine again. I guess I'öö have to wait and see for how long.
Hey, the Experimental Twitch Proxy never worked for me, but this one oh man!
I am using the plug-in for nearly one week now and it's working great, when I could only watch a lagy medium/high before, I can now watch any stream in source mode no matter how high the bitrate is, and with zero lag, this is just GREAT. Thanks.
My internet provider is Orange by the way. (100/50 Mbps fiber)
I find it really helps me watch streams on twitch, but it doesn't seem to work on embeds like "salty bet"'s website. Is there a workaround to getting this to work on embedded streams, or does the way it handles the stream make this not possible?
Most embeds use a really old version of the Twitch player which doesn't like the proxy. Sites like TL which use the new embed code should have no problems.
As of today Chrome crashes instantly when opening a stream when Twitch proxy and Twitch.tv Europe Lag Fix are active. When I don't run Twitch proxy there are no crashes.
Twitch is not lagging just cause of the german servers, its also lagging cause of the overload on the Telekom-network. for example: if you watching with internetproviders like Unitymedia or Kabel BW/Kabel Deutschland you will have less laggs than watching with telekom network or provider who just rent the Telekom-network like 1&1.
Also the german Twitch-server is running with Telekom-network, i think.
I had it running on HSC stream one and it was working. I opened stream b where it didn't work... And I refreshed both and now it works nowhere... what to do?
The program still runs and it does the text thing, but the stream doesn't show the odd numbers at the bottom where the Low, med, high and source are. And streams lag.
On November 14 2013 21:30 Shinobi1982 wrote: As of today Chrome crashes instantly when opening a stream when Twitch proxy and Twitch.tv Europe Lag Fix are active. When I don't run Twitch proxy there are no crashes.
Same here. Using the proxy instantly crashes Chrome for me too.
i dont know why but the extension seems to have stopped working for me. Worked perfect yesterday but today i get the same lags i used to get before the extension. I already tried reinstalling it but nothing seems to work.
Source (1080p, 2537 kbps, video9-1.ord01) => Medium (480p, 800 kbps) => High (Twitch-button)
Refresh:
High (720p, 1600 kbps, video9-1.ord01) => Source (1080p, 2571 kbps, video6-2.ord01) => Low (360p, 350 kbps, video 15-2.ord01) => Source (1080p, 2368 kbps, video 15-1.ord1) => 720p, 1600 kbps, video 18-2.ord01)
Strange, in the morning I only could switch the quality one or two times before it was back to normal, so I had to refresh the stream. Also the lag is now gone, maybe just a hiccup.
The plugin doesn't seem to be working for me neither. In the past 2 days i've been lagging a lot on twitch, thought it was my computer so i tried on my laptop and it's the same with or without the addon. It still shows the info in the bar but after changing quality 2 times it doesnt show anymore. Just registered here to give you some feedback, if you need anything else just ask, is the least I can do.
Just posting to say I have been using this for roughly 2 weeks now and it has been working perfectly. The past 2 days however it feels like it doesn't work anymore, I often get buffering where I didn't before on multiple streams. The bitrate is still being displayed so I guess maybe twitch changed something on their end?
Same as above, the extension does not seem to work anymore. It says "disconnected" when I start it and not the usual rambling of kb's, so this leads to source lagging for me.
what is it that makes the firefox connect trough the proxy? is it only the http://r-1.ch/twitch.pac in the automatic proxy config? it only works sometimes on twitch which is quite frustrating and i don't know why.
edit: i just figured out that it was my antivirus(bitdefender) that blocked http://r-1.ch/twitch.pac. now it works thank you.
This worked perfectly for me until last night. Now the lags are back although I can see the extension work, the additional numbers next to the resolution indicator are displayed properly. I hope this gets fixed in case other users experience the same and it's not something on my end only.
The chrome extension stops working when you install another proxy extension, such as any youtube unblocker or a "VPN" extension.
Is there any solution to this? Is there an easy fix to restrict those extensions to i.e. youtube.com?
Edit: Found a workaround, for those wondering. All those extensions seem to reset all proxy settings on every page load to "system" settings, so I just went to their reset function and replaced that with the content of twitch.js from OPs extension. Not very pretty but works for now at least.
Extension worked perfectly until last weekend. Before there was lag on medium without extension, with extension lag-free on source. Now it's the other way round, any idea why ?
Same here. Since today i'm having heavy lag to the point where the streams don't even load when i have the extension active. Had to deactivate it. Seems like maybe twitch did something to prevent the extension from being used?
I just published version 2.0 of the extension which works without requiring a proxy autoconfig file, meaning it's fully compatible with other PAC extensions such as Mediahint, Hola Unblocker, etc.
On November 26 2013 05:34 hrsmntford wrote: Same here. Since today i'm having heavy lag to the point where the streams don't even load when i have the extension active. Had to deactivate it. Seems like maybe twitch did something to prevent the extension from being used?
Had a similar experience today will test it the next couple days again. Lag was so bad it was impossible to watch anything.
Not sure what happened, but the last day or 2 my Hola VPN-thing has stopped working. It can't seem to work while your extension is enabled. Is there a way to fix this, other than turning it off manually every time I wanna switch VPN?
Does not seem to work for me anymore. I can see the videostream adresses in the player, so I'm guessing the plugin is working, but I'm still having trouble streaming high and source streams (dreamhack).
My connection is 50mbit down, and streaming on a macbook air i5 1.7ghz, 4gb ram, 256gb ssd.
edit: strange, it works fine in Firefox (source that is..)
Not sure if this question was asked before, but can you please make pac file for firefox that would allow us to use mediahint and this fix at the same time?
R1CH_TL, i asked you this on twitter so sorry to repeat but i'm not sure if you noticed it and i would really love to know the answer to this question: was there some "specific change" done to the .pac file like around a week+ ago? (i'm using the firefox manual address .pac file thingy) since before that i was always/mostly getting the "ord" (Chicago according to you) servers as default.. and it was back when u needed to wait a few seconds before stopping/starting the stream again to reconnect/get a new server since if u did it too fast it would just not use the proxy u made (now u can do it instantly i guess) but it all changed like i said a week or so more ago, now its "dfw" servers which work so much worse for me (im from israel) and it almost negates the entire purpose of the twitch proxy that worked so well before for me it really feels as tho the proxy got a new "priority" in terms of which US server of twitch to connect to... previously it being "ord" with sometimes different ones when ord was full/under heavy stress and now its dfw with almost never being able to get another servers (really rarely getting "lax" which isnt better for me either) i would literally even pay a monthly fee if there is a way for u to make another pac file or something that prioritizes "ord" based servers, your "eu twitch proxy" was that much of a solution and a bless for me before this thing happened.
i really hope they recomission it or at least split it between the two... coz for some countries (i assume not just for israel) its a huge difference between the dallas ones and the chicago ones nonetheless thanks for the quick reply..
Lag..lag everywhere! The chrome addon doesn't seem to be working, never had lag with the previous fix in firefox, even on source. But now after installing the chrome addon it still lags. Please fix the fix for firefox!
With the firefox fix out of work, my whole twitch experience is jus terrible now i heard about the VPN, but not experienced at the area. Wouldn't it slow down my whole connection/load times abit when i surf around?
Could you upload the old chrome version, or is that non operational now? I just reinstalled windows yesterday, and either the new version does not work as well or the twitch american servers are getting hammered at the same time, but it's just as bad now as watching without the plugin . thanks
This is getting pretty ridicolous, people need to use plugins and programs like livestreamer to be able to watch a stream. Twitch get your shit togheter ffs.
For a few days now I get exclusively .sfo01 servers, I guess from San Francisco, which lag just like the European servers. No matter how often i refresh or change qualities I can't get .ord or .jfk servers like before.
I believe those servers are no longer serving traffic or are completely overloaded as I haven't seen them in a while either. Note that if you are watching HLS streams (indicated on the status bar), you are probably better off without the extension.
Yeah this fix worked great for me until the recent changes from Twitch's side. Now it works better without the extension, although still pretty spotty.
On November 03 2013 11:27 Liquid`Ret wrote: 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
I'm in my father in law's home for holidays, I cant watch the stream in medium quality, just low and jumping... I got 10 megas here, I think this is not normal.
I still have the extension active in my Chrome, and it still works perfectly fine for me.. without the extension I get the circle of doom every other second...
would be nice, if you could add the extension once again!
Also, I'd love a Firefox version again :p (hate the cpu load flash content produces in chrome)
please add it again! I had to clean completely google chrome and now I can no longer use it... I could use it before you removed it perfectly.. Now streams are unwatchable
Is there anyway to download this again? I reinstalled windows and now my twitch is lagging again. It worked perfectly for me before even if you say it shouldn´t
On January 19 2014 21:29 alexffd wrote: I just reinstalled my windows. that addon always helped me a lot! Can I still download it anywhere ?
Same thing for me, can't watch a single stream without lagging like crazy (and I have a 100 mbit download connection). Wish I could download the extension again
The thing worked perfectly, but today twitch decided to block people using it. Great, back to LOW quality streams with buffering issues on higher sources!
Update: Today is spoke to someone from german telekom and he recommend me to try Opera for twitch.tv ... i just installed it and it's running now for 15 minutes on source quality without any lags .. maybe it's a solution for you guys too ?
something that worked for me. right click in the stream screen, go to settings, then click on the folder of Adobe and set the amount of data to 1MB or 10MB. Did it and it works flawless now
EPT
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