HTML5 Chat is Live on Twitch.tv

[nixter1029]

 

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:

• Speed: Chat loads nearly 4x faster on average
• Efficiency: Chat uses fewer CPU resources, especially in busy chat rooms
• The Future: This is a big step towards a complete HTML5 Twitch experience

 

To our users who don’t use a WebSockets-capable browser or prefer using IRC, don’t panicBasket! Older browsers that aren’t WebSockets-capable will still connect using Flash and our existing IRC support isn’t going anywhere.

What do I need to do to get HTML5 chat? Absolutely nothing. As long as you’re using a Websocket-capable browser, HTML5 will start working automatically. Please note that we’re gradually introducing HTML5 chat to everyone throughout the day, so if you haven’t seen it yet – don’t worry. It’s coming.

 

Source: http://blog.twitch.tv/2015/06/html5-chat-is-live/

[nixter1029]

Now we wait for the player itself to move over to html5. It's ridiculous how sometimes watching a stream uses more CPU than actually playing the game would. 

Ughh... tell me about it.

[SirSquid]

how long is the delay in the chat now?

[Xorbot]

• Speed: Chat loads nearly 4x faster on average

 

4x the speed means 4x the dongers. ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ

[jbslayer]

Anyone know if using Better Twitch TV would have any effect on this new update?

[evilarceus]

4x the speed means 4x the dongers. ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ

I'm not going on Twitch for a while

[evilarceus]

I do notice a speed difference when loading chat.

[Yog]

Now we wait for the player itself to move over to html5. It's ridiculous how sometimes watching a stream uses more CPU than actually playing the game would. 

Seriously. If I'm playing a game while listening to a stream I have to make sure twitch isn't the active tab, otherwise whatever game I'm playing is super laggy.

[AlexGoesHigh]

Anyone know if using Better Twitch TV would have any effect on this new update?

if it does, they will fix it in less that a day, those guy patch the add on very fast, it took them only 2 days to fix it after the last major update to twitch, which pretty much broke everything that was third party

[Techhog]

Now we wait for the player itself to move over to html5. It's ridiculous how sometimes watching a stream uses more CPU than actually playing the game would. 

Not gonna happen for a long time because ads. 

[nims0c]

Now we wait for the player itself to move over to html5. It's ridiculous how sometimes watching a stream uses more CPU than actually playing the game would. 

 

Tell me about it. My laptop gets so hot with the Flash player that I would use the /hls URL to watch in HTML5. To view the chat I have to open a separate popout window. So ghetto.

[mvitkun]

streaming isn't quite there yet

What?

There's hitbox, and it can stream in 1080p60 just like twitch via html5 perfectly fine.

Not to mention Youtube does HTML5 streaming.

[Colonel_Gerdauf]

Not to mention Youtube does HTML5 streaming.

 

The last I checked, YouTube's streaming service was still highly reliant on Flash.

[Alurit]

Now we wait for the player itself to move over to html5. It's ridiculous how sometimes watching a stream uses more CPU than actually playing the game would. 

so that is why my laptop ramps up the fans when watching twitch

[harrynowl]

I just plain don't use websites that only have the option to use flash player anymore... I don't want it on my machine although I do miss out on some things I guess.

[AxelRantila]

Now please give us an HTML5 player. Don't care what the chat uses.

[PortentousLad]

not that I care much for twitch chat but cool.

[TroubleKlef]

Good to see this. Flash sucks.

[mvitkun]

The last I checked, YouTube's streaming service was still highly reliant on Flash.

Meaning what?

[Doobeedoo]

Good but, hurry up with player update. About time it receives an modern update.

[Kodiack]

Well, it's certainly a step in the right direction. I have a feeling that Twitch will suddenly start "finding" ways to improve now that YouTube could provide some beefy competition.

It'll be a nice day when Twitch has HTML5 for everything and when (if?) they manage to roll out more servers for viewers outside of the United States. Watching Twitch streams from Australia, New Zealand, or pretty much any other country that isn't the USA or Canada seems to be an exercise in futility. 

 

*EDIT: Looks like connecting to chat from New Zealand is still horrifically unreliable. This has been a problem since I moved here over a year ago. I've seen this issue across multiple systems, and across multiple ISPs, and heard complaints about it from multiple friends.

 

 

C'mon, Twitch, ya can do better than that. And don't you dare blame my Internet connection!

Edited July 1, 2015 by Kodiack

[Colonel_Gerdauf]

Meaning what?

When I, for example, visit the Tech Talk stream, the video frame tells me that the video does not support the player (HTML5), and then quickly jumps to using Flash Player.

[mvitkun]

When I, for example, visit the Tech Talk stream, the video frame tells me that the video does not support the player (HTML5), and then quickly jumps to using Flash Player.

I have no idea what tech talk is, and the channel that came up when I googled it had it's most recent video 3 years ago.....so I'd assume it's not that.

  

I do know however that I've watched at least 4-5 different channels stream on youtube multiple times and it was always in HTML5

[VortexS]

Finally, now let's get rid of those annoying kids and trolls and chat will be amazing. I especially hate those people that keep crying about CSGO skins they gamble when "their" team is losing.

And I guess that a full html5 Twitch is coming pretty soon then.

[FakezZ]

Why can't flash just freaking die...