With all the news around Twitch and there horrible delay's up to 60 seconds between caster and audience in this thread Twitch.tv update imposes delay up to 60s in streams, viewer interaction impacted
A gaffer posted this link from a new streaming service just 3 months old. Called Hitbox.tv.
I found a site to stream on. So far its way better than twitch. The quality of streaming is way better and there is no delay.
http://www.hitbox.tv/
*removed the link of the name but you can see it for your self. There still improving and i even posted on there facebook. And got a response that made me even more happy.
We are happy you enjoy our service. And we are actually working on lowering the delay even further
I tried it yesterday and a bunch of gaffers all ready made some channels. Pretty suprised also that with 1080p webcam and videogame are working flawless.
Here is mine :
www.hitbox.tv/Nokterian
Will add more streams to the list.
It is using OBS here are the guides how to make your own stream work.
How to Stream on Hitbox.tv
How to use OBS
Remember this is still in beta,i hope that they keep improving there service it could be very great. A good alternative from Twitch since they don't know what there doing at the moment there if you want a good stream.
Since people cannot read here is the blog post.
An introduction to our management
Hi folks!
This is Martin, CEO of hitbox. We have been online now for a few weeks with the beta of hitbox.tv, so I thought it was time to give you more insights into the management and the intentions behind hitbox.tv.
Our CTO, René, is our technical mastermind and has years of experience in the streaming business as he built up the core technology of own3D.tv and managed to create a platform which was considered one of the best at the time and delivered a service for thousands of streamers and millions of viewers. Being a hardcore gamer himself, his goal is to help eSports grow, to bring it in every livingroom not depending on where you are and to make it as big or even bigger than other sports. That was and still is his great vision.
Talking about myself, I bring a lot of financial experience to the table. I was working as a company auditor and as head of controlling in the headquarter of one of the largest financial institutions in Central and Eastern Europe. I was responsible for the whole planning and controlling processes, for the groups strategy and the competitive market analysis.
René and myself have been good friends for a long time. By the end of 2012 he approached me as he saw his life´s work endangered. He asked me to have a look into the figures of own3D and to restructure the company if necessary.
Being an eSports fanatic myself and given the opportunity to work in such a great project, I didn’t hesitate a second and became their CFO. However it didn´t take long to find out that the company was in trouble.
I think you guys know the main reasons why own3D failed. The company didn’t manage to scale its business and to grow with its viewers and size. What exactly does that mean?
Let me put it in simple terms: Having millions of viewers creating massive traffic brings you tons of costs. The company lacked funding and was stuck in bad contracts. That led to cost savings on the employers end and thus to a poor income management.
High costs + low income = a big problem
Given this situation the owners and investors of own3D tried their best to sell the company and to pay out all debts to its customers. We worked days and nights to get that deal done but our main target company surprisingly stepped away after 3 months of negotiations and due diligence. René lost his life´s work and a lot of streamers their money.
However, we still believe in eSports and our vision and just love watching awesome live content, so René and me decided to build up a new live streaming site putting together both technical know-how and business experience right from the get-go.
We believe that competition is good, even if we just give an impulse to the existing players to improve their service.
Still in beta and tons of tasks ahead, we love what we do and hope you give us a chance to prove that we know what we are doing. Having a great investor as partner and a super experienced infrastructure team on board, we are convinced that we can offer you a stable and reliable service, with great usability and some awesome new features.
So probably a few where from own3d.tv? I don't know never used it but at least their honest here. And i give them more credit at this point of making the streams work instead of the clusterfuck over at twitch.