[jsheard]

> and your 6Mbps is likely bit high IMHO

6Mbps is Twitches recommended ingest bitrate, and their highest quality just serves the ingested stream back to viewers without transcoding. In reality the storage would actually be a little higher still because they have to store all the transcoded lower resolution versions as well.

[littlestymaar]

> 6Mbps is Twitches recommended ingest bitrate, and their highest quality just serves the ingested stream back to viewers without transcoding.

Interesting, I wouldn't have guessed that it would make sense for them with regard to bandwidth cost. TIL, thanks.

[jsheard]

It's a trade-off between bandwidth and encoding capacity. Twitch actually only guarentees transcoding for "partnered" streamers above a certain viewership threshold, so when watching a smaller streamer you might only be able to view the "source" quality if there isn't enough encoding capacity to go around.

[littlestymaar]

That makes sense.