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by noxToken 3806 days ago
Please don't take this the wrong way, but why would I want to watch 3 streams at once?

I imaging that this is supposed to be similar to a sportscast that multi-boxes games occurring at the same time. The issue I find is that the control isn't automated, so I'd have to actually be paying attention to all three to see which is most deserving of my attention at the moment.

I suppose that there are certain games in which multi-boxing is useful, but none of the ones I watch would have much benefit. What are the games you stream that benefit from a setup like this?

Also, you're serving all of the images over HTTP.

4 comments

The other 2 stream might be boring at the moment(streamer afk, in a game queue, etc)
Certain kinds of events and tournaments (e.g. dreamhack) will divide their games across multiple streams. If you wanted to keep tabs on all the games, this is one way to do that.
If I'm watching 2 streams and #1 is on intermission, I can watch #2 without worrying about missing #1 the instant it returns.
one application may be streams of multiple POVs of the same game.