[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.