To give the international and multilingual users a more cohesive chat experience, we’ve launchedBroadcaster Language Mode. Turn on Broadcaster Language Mode to let your community chat exclusively in your preferred language with other native language speakers. Continue reading Twitch Launches Broadcaster Language Mode
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Make a video. Win an all-access Purple Ticket to TwitchCon!
Do you love Twitch? Want to celebrate video games and broadcasting at the ultimate Twitch convention? You’re in luck!
Twitch is offering to fly out one special fan (and their friend) to San Francisco with an all-access pass (that means VIP party access, meet and greets with top broadcasters, tour of the event with Twitch staff, & more!) for TwitchCon, but we want to learn more about you before we pick somebody. Here’s the challenge: Continue reading Make a video. Win an all-access Purple Ticket to TwitchCon!
Video game streaming service Twitch is ditching Flash and switching to HTML5
Video game streaming powerhouse Twitch is becoming the latest big-name company to ditch Adobe’s ageing Flash in favor of better alternatives. The streaming service today announced that it was rolling out a redesign to its video player controls, replacing the old Flash versions with new Javascipt and HTML5 options. This isn’t the end for Flash on Twitch just yet — for now the site’s videos still use the software — but the streaming service says this is a step toward releasing its “much-anticipated” full HTML5 player. Continue reading Video game streaming service Twitch is ditching Flash and switching to HTML5
Video Player Controls Now in HTML!
As you may have already heard, we’re beginning to roll out a redesign of our video player on web.
Today’s redesign moves half of the video player – specifically the controls – from Flash to HTML5 and Javascript. The video itself is still in Flash underneath the controls. However, this is an important step to releasing the much-anticipated full HTML5 player.
Keep an eye out for the new player controls, and stay tuned for more HTML5 updates.
Originally posted on Twitch Blog
HTML5 Chat is Live!
Since the dawn of the time, our users have yearned to connect to chat using HTML5 instead of Flash – we’re pleased to announce this is now a reality. HTML5 chat is rolling out today.
With our shiny new WebSockets chat implementation, you’ll experience: Continue reading HTML5 Chat is Live!