Higher Quality on iOS App

crogers16

Whenever I attempt to watch streams on the Twitch.tv iPhone app, i notice that the quality of the video is very low regardless of the quality the person is streaming. Will there possibly be an update for higher quality? Any people who agree with this should help to bring this topic to the Twitch.tv developers. Thanks :)

Fire

The player automatically chooses quality based on your phone's available bandwidth. As for manually selecting a higher quality:

TwitchTVzach:

Unfortunately, no, it isn't possible to manually select a video quality. The video players that Apple provides on iOS are all a bit of a black box when it comes to quality, and don't offer any option to have control over it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ncosm/we_are_twitchtv_the_worlds_largest_video_game/c383l2b

crogers16

Well, the quality for me never seems to change and i have an upload of 15mbps and download of 14mbps and i seemingly get v
240p..i guess i'll just have to cope though.

slivirs

I just wish I could select a "do not auto-change" option as I hate when I bring my iPad from room to room and the video pauses as the quality is adjusted up or down based on WiFi signal of the next room ...

Fire

@slivers , from that same post:

TwitchTVzach:

Trust me, I hear you loud and clear that its beyond annoying when the stream is jumping back and forth between qualities. I use the app a lot on my bus ride into the office, and theres one block where my phone's connection all but dies and the quality skips a lot. This is one of the problems that I'm always thinking about how to fix.

So the problems are known, they're just kind of limited with what they can fix.

darthsoma

I watch twitch a LOT on my iPhone, and I pretty much have this issue constantly.  It definitely happens when I am driving, but the thing that bothers me is that it happens just as much as when I am on wifi at the house.  Moving around within the house doesn't seem to change anything.  I get this over and over again when I am just sitting in the same place.  The worst thing is that when it attempts to sync up it jumps backwards and forwards say 30s or so which means that if the timing is bad I can miss some major things in a game.  I really hope you guys can figure this out soon.  Thanks.

nazgard

On ipad picture quality is terrible. Please change the picture quality of the ipad. My Feed allows you to upload up to 40 Mbit / s

fazzig

When the iPad app works correctly it's great. Work is infinitely better when I'm able to distract myself. I've noticed that when I log onto a stream that requires a subscription- the stream tries to go to a higher quality (usually over 480p) and then goes to black or is blocked with a weird green scrambling.

If you could fix it so that you could chose your iPad resolution, that would terrific. Thanks for all the hard work.