While it’s simple enough to bookmark your favorite Twitch streams or saved clips, sometimes you might have the need to store your digital copy. Many tools exist for downloading “vods” from Twitch, but Twitch Leecher is one of the smarter choices.
As the utility’s GitHub description explains, you can use FFmpeg to grab all sorts of online streams, but it’s not the most efficient way to go about it. Continue reading Easily Download Your Favourite Twitch Streams With Twitch Leecher
Ever since Twitch was first acquired by Amazon back in 2014 for $970 million, it was inevitable that the two websites would begin to merge features and build off of each other. We’ve seen that growth begin to take place with more stable servers and premium features present on Twitch, but this past weekend at TwitchCon, the yearly convention for — you guessed it — Twitch, the company announced a plethora of improvements and features coming to the website thanks to their partnership with Amazon. Continue reading Twitch Just Got Way Better with Help from Amazon
New settings tab for embedding chat in your stream!
Facebook.com Live Chat! Continue reading Restream chat got a major update – awesome embedding option, facebook live and a bot
TwitchCon 2016 just wrapped up in San Diego and the news coming from the convention has many gamers and viewers very excited about what’s to come from Twitch. From new services to cross-platform integration there seemed to be something for everyone in this year’s keynote address given by Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, and Director of Programming, Marcus “djWHEAT” Graham.
Arguably the biggest announcement is that of Twitch Prime, a new premium service available to all Amazon Prime subscribers. Along with discounts on pre-orders and new releases, it also features things like free digital games and in-game loot. To unlock all these premium perks just sign up for Amazon Prime (you can start with a 30-day free trial), or link your existing Prime account to Twitch by going to http://www.twitchprime.com. Continue reading TwitchCon 2016: Noteable News
Finally, after years of begging and pleading from the streaming community, Twitch is rolling out video uploads to the popular video game streaming site.
For years now, streamers at Twitch have been able to stream live content only. That means daily live-streams to create a viable audience, which can be pretty grueling.
The only place to upload video content was YouTube. In fact, on YouTube streamers could easily choose to either live-stream or upload video content. That wasn’t an option on Twitch, making YouTube more attractive to many.
Now all that’s changing. Continue reading Twitch Uploads Could Be A Game-Changer
