Co-Streaming from a Viewer Perspective
I feel as though you really inhibit a viewer's experience when you don't make co-streaming something that viewers are automatically opted-out of.
For instance, if I am at mixer.com/qwik - I am there to watch Qwik, and support him. But if he decides to join someone else's co-stream, it takes away the feeling of support from his channel / stream. I should be able to decide whether I want my viewing experience to be impacted by co-streaming or not.
In addition to this - if viewers aren't auto-opted-out of co-streaming, then, at least let us re-arrange the video layout.
One other helpful feature would be to know which stream/channel someone is from (or at least the mods). I don't think this would be a very difficult thing, considering the consolidated stream chats can see when someone follows or hosts or Tweets a specific stream in a co-stream setup.
I hope this feedback resonates with your team and you can make positive changes.
Kinsbane
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EvilNotion
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Games like - Shellshock for example - or card games etc - do not need 2-4 videos of the exact same screen during Co-stream. I see having a 'Costream Chat Only' option as being an amazingly useful option.
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Streambritish
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This would be really good, I have a bunch of viewers who sometimes don't have the bandwidth for the co-streams, or dislike co-streaming. Giving those types of viewers a choice would be perfect.
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BigReaper
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Maybe an intermediate change could be that when you X out of one of the co-stream "windows", that instead of just sitting there blank, that it either shrinks down to a much smaller size or goes away completely (maybe leaving an icon behind so a user could reopen it if they wanted to), to let the other co-stream window(s) regain the usage of that space and resize themselves to be larger?
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DoctorFu
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Having as much control over the co-stream format as a viewer is best!
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GhostfromTexas
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I support this idea. I was about to post this myself but found this and it's pretty much what I wanted to see.
- Allow a co-stream to be setup where the secondary video is off by default, and viewers can opt-in to co-streaming if they want. So if Streamer "A" and Streamer "B" are co-streaming, and people join "A's" channel, then they will see that person's stream and can opt in to see "B's" stream if they choose to
- Allow viewers to set their own co-stream layout and save the options for future use. So instead of them being forced to view it as the streamer sets up, let them choose their layout
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KSores
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this would be really great, lots (most) of times when i am watching a co-stream i just want to watch one POV, i love the combined chat, but it would be amazing to be able to minimize/ rearrange the streams