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Marina Starr
07-02-2013, 05:34 PM
I'm sure it's happened to all of us at one point or another so keep your chin up!

I have had the strangest week on SM. TONS of people coming in and leaving without saying a word. People generally at least chat with me! What could be the deal? I check the cammmodels link to be sure nothing wacky was going on, and everything looks normal. I went from making almost a hundred bucks an hour to absolutely not a dime this week. Im freaking the fuck out!

Snowy0Star
07-02-2013, 06:24 PM
just logged on and saw this in my SM message box

Subject: Widescreen – Medium Quality Settings

We have introduced a new widescreen ‘Medium’ settings profile for the external encoder. You can find them by jumping to ‘Step 2’ on http://www.streamatemodels.com/HD/ .

This new widescreen profile is based on the old 4:3 ‘Recommended’ settings profile and will work with any machine, camera and bandwidth which did not have problems running the old settings. This will update you to the new widescreen format, and give you the same stream quality as the old settings.

For the best quality you should run the newest ‘Recommended’ settings whenever possible. If you have any problems, the ‘Medium’ settings are a great second choice, and the ‘Lower Quality’ settings will work with most older equipment.

VictoriaChaos
07-02-2013, 06:44 PM
Just saw that too.
Come on SM fairy, bring me luck tonight!

HollyStJohn
07-02-2013, 08:49 PM
Uuuuugh!! I get ready and go to log in.... and get nothing but the 'Loading Interface' screen, followed by 'If your problem persists, contact Support' because support has been sooo helpful. Gettin' reeeeal tired of your shit, SM.

VoluptiousBriadda
07-02-2013, 09:29 PM
I have had the strangest week on SM. TONS of people coming in and leaving without saying a word. People generally at least chat with me! What could be the deal? I check the cammmodels link to be sure nothing wacky was going on, and everything looks normal. I went from making almost a hundred bucks an hour to absolutely not a dime this week. Im freaking the fuck out!

Sylvie,when you say ppl coming in and leaving without a word,do you mean that guys are logging in sporadically,like maybe one here,one there,another 10 sec later,another 2 min later,one maybe 5 min after that guy til they all eventually trickle out of your room one at a time,without ever saying a word? OR do you mean that you start streaming,get a rush of viewers into your room all at once,you try to engage them but then they all leave your room almost at the same exact time,without ever saying a word?

If its the latter - go to page 230 on here and read the 2nd post from the top (this is assuming we have our settings the same,but if not,you'll find it regardless) from Nina Den.She posted a pic of her encoder log - the next time this happens to you,go check your log and see if it looks like what Nina posted or something similar to it,with lots of disconnecting/reconnecting going on.Several ladies responded to Nina so I'd def scroll down and read their input as well.

If you find your log similar,it's kicking all of the guys out of your room.You're disconnecting but not long enough for a disconnection notice to be sent to you,as the encoder is reconnecting you before it gets to that point.I kept having the same thing happen - it literally would look like a herd of members would FLOOD into my room,then not long after,they'd all disappear almost as quickly,with naught a word to be uttered by any of them.

I KNEW it wasn't just some stray hoard of lurkers randomly hitting my room then all of them silently skipping away holding hands together.Before I realized what was happening,I would check out my room through my cammodels link and everything would look just peachy keen,which just baffled the shit out of me.Eventually I started studying my log when the "wave" would come through,and realized that I was disconnecting over and over again.So even if you appear to look fine through your link,you still may be disconnecting regardless.I have no idea how that works,perhaps someone with the answer will indulge me but it's neither here nor there - the lesson would be to not always rely on your cammodels link for answers,and to instead learn to "see" your room through your encoder log (I myself am still working on that part)

Fallenangel2904
07-02-2013, 10:38 PM
Uuuuugh!! I get ready and go to log in.... and get nothing but the 'Loading Interface' screen, followed by 'If your problem persists, contact Support' because support has been sooo helpful. Gettin' reeeeal tired of your shit, SM.

This has been happening to me for a week. Are you using Firefox? No matter what I do I can't get it to work in Firefox so I have resorted to opening it in Internet Explorer which I HATE HATE HATE but otherwise I wouldn't be able to get on. No idea why. And I emailed support and they were very little help. Sigh.

gingerstripper
07-02-2013, 11:20 PM
erm I dont know whats going on...but does updating take a bit after you done a gold show. I said 128 the last time i check, then i was like okay so its updating cause i saw the pledges didnt show up yet. I go take a break and shower, and come back...and look to see on the streammatemodels.com page..not the broadcasting one...that i only have 116 but nothing is showing up...my last show isnt

gingerstripper
07-02-2013, 11:22 PM
OMG IM SO RETARDED
LOL


it says July 3rd...well its still the 2nd here...so i was like wha...i found my monies

Billabong
07-02-2013, 11:33 PM
Uuuuugh!! I get ready and go to log in.... and get nothing but the 'Loading Interface' screen, followed by 'If your problem persists, contact Support' because support has been sooo helpful. Gettin' reeeeal tired of your shit, SM.


This has been happening to me for a week. Are you using Firefox? No matter what I do I can't get it to work in Firefox so I have resorted to opening it in Internet Explorer which I HATE HATE HATE but otherwise I wouldn't be able to get on. No idea why. And I emailed support and they were very little help. Sigh.

Turn off your Ad Blocker and then reload SM.

Fallenangel2904
07-02-2013, 11:45 PM
Turn off your Ad Blocker and then reload SM.

It worked! THANK YOU SO MUCH BB!! I HATE using Internet Explorer!

HollyStJohn
07-03-2013, 12:38 AM
Turn off your Ad Blocker and then reload SM.

Oh my god, I freaking love you!

naughtycamgirl
07-03-2013, 01:36 AM
We are all wondering why streamte is dead lately ? I just realized that they started charging 21% VAT on top of our rates !!
So if you charge 4,99$/min, client is paying 6,03$ !!! and our share is even less than 35% now 34149

Snowy0Star
07-03-2013, 02:50 AM
We are all wondering why streamte is dead lately ? I just realized that they started charging 21% VAT on top of our rates !!
So if you charge 4,99$/min, client is paying 6,03$ !!! and our share is even less than 35% now 34149

this MIGHT (sarcasm ) be why were getting all those say ok i go pvt bbs then we see them exit our free chat then not to go on pvt and we never see them again.

Missymissdemeanour
07-03-2013, 04:11 AM
We are all wondering why streamte is dead lately ? I just realized that they started charging 21% VAT on top of our rates !!
So if you charge 4,99$/min, client is paying 6,03$ !!! and our share is even less than 35% now 34149

We do get 35% of the prices we charge. SM has to add the VAT at that % but they then have to pass that onto the treasury so they are not making more money. But yes I can see how this could put guys of even though it is nothing new, VAT is chargable/payable on all/most luxery items. I believe it also depends on where the customer is in the world, but I could be wrong on that.

AliceFun
07-03-2013, 04:21 AM
Does this apply to all members no matter where they from? Or maybe just for certain nationals? The member account u logged in to show us, where is registered? europe maybe?

~Carmen~
07-03-2013, 04:27 AM
Alice, only for certain nationals. I believe the UK but not totally sure.

naughtycamgirl
07-03-2013, 04:38 AM
Yes Europe, We didn't had this VAT before, I think it is not fair if it is only applicabile on european members as they already pay more since it is in € / £

Does this apply to all members no matter where they from? Or maybe just for certain nationals? The member account u logged in to show us, where is registered? europe maybe?

AliceFun
07-03-2013, 05:31 AM
Actually on SM members do not pay same numbers if they are paying in euros/ pounds, $1 does NOT equal 1 pound or euro, SM converts other currencies into dollars.
Talking about greedy LiveJasmin, they charge european/ other nationals members with 1 euro or pound for a dollar credit which is not fair and on top of it they pay models in US dollars so the difference is in their f***g pocket. Go figure.

Not sure why they add the VAT now, yes it could be a real turn off for members buying shows. I am thinking about asking my european members/ UK guys about it but well, i dont like to talk about 'money' haha, dont wanna make them aware of the situation more than they are already and make them change their minds about buying my shows ehhh

naughtycamgirl
07-03-2013, 05:50 AM
I've just tried to log in to my member account in order to screenshot where it say 1 gold is = 1UNIT = 1$/ 1 € / 1 £ and I realized they banned me lol
I can't even retrieve my password it says :The site could not find any user with that email address.

Actually on SM members do not pay same numbers if they are paying in euros/ pounds, $1 does NOT equal 1 pound or euro, SM converts other currencies into dollars.
Talking about greedy LiveJasmin, they charge european/ other nationals members with 1 euro or pound for a dollar credit which is not fair and on top of it they pay models in US dollars so the difference is in their f***g pocket. Go figure.

Not sure why they add the VAT now, yes it could be a real turn off for members buying shows. I am thinking about asking my european members/ UK guys about it but well, i dont like to talk about 'money' haha, dont wanna make them aware of the situation more than they are already and make them change their minds about buying my shows ehhh

Nina_Den
07-03-2013, 06:13 AM
Why did they ban you?

Snowy0Star
07-03-2013, 06:20 AM
^ they do that sometimes they'll ban custie accounts that belong to models for some reason they dont like it money is money they take 65% of what we make so if some of us want to give them even more of a 'percentage' and put it back into the site by helping other girls out id think theyd be happy about it but nope model+custie account = banned custie account.

AliceFun
07-03-2013, 06:27 AM
Maybe giving GOLD is different than pvt's? I dont know, maybe they changed things?! But i know from one good regular member in UK how he paid, this was some time ago tho.
Still, when i was watching random rooms and gold show countdowns recently i saw guys pledging lets say the minimum amount which was 5 gold ($5) and other members pledging 2.5 pound or 3 euros so their money were converted.

AliceFun
07-03-2013, 06:30 AM
I assume they dont want models to know too much about how they do things on site with genuine members, they want us in dark somehow. Like if models dont know certain things they cant give out the infoes. Go figure.

naughtycamgirl
07-03-2013, 06:30 AM
It seems they don't like models to have a member account

Why did they ban you?

Nina_Den
07-03-2013, 06:44 AM
It seems they don't like models to have a member account

34150

naughtycamgirl
07-03-2013, 07:09 AM
I've had a member account since last summer , I never had any problem, I've used it once for a gold show (they sent me a discount for my first purchase) so I tried a gold show and I wasn't charged for any VAT, I used the account rarely, only to figure out something from member's point of view.
Actually, I didn't logged in to my account for ages, I did it today when I saw on another board girls talking about this VAT
and I reported it here, are they spying on me/us? and know that I informed you about it ? Weird LOL


I've had a members account for almost a year and I've been fine ... I've tipped my friends but haven't used it for much else. You need to call them and let them know that you're a model and a member.

xxtinamariexx
07-03-2013, 07:25 AM
I had my member account closed but when I called the customer service line, it was because I was signing in using a proxy.. I was asked if I had been to where ever and I was like nooo. So it was more or less a little protection. they did put the account back as soon
as I was able to prove it was mine :) I just told them I didn't know you couldn't do that. Also have had custies tell me the same thing

Nina_Den
07-03-2013, 07:30 AM
Could any of you with a member account try to tag me (doesn't matter what, could be anything random)? I haven't seen any new tags/comments on my account since one week now and it's really weird. I wanna see if it's a glitch. You could PM me and I'd give you my SM name. I'd really appreciate that.

bigbootyjudy1
07-03-2013, 08:38 AM
The new medium setting SM sent yesterday is so not working for me.SMH.Is anyone having luck with the new setting?

gingerstripper
07-03-2013, 10:10 AM
The medium setting....is weird. I looked at mine and i guess it was already based on the medium setting... im not sure...kinda blurry at times.... but they said i was clear..so i dont know.

AliceFun
07-03-2013, 10:15 AM
^^^ What is not working more exactly? What they do new is crop the image to look wide, the rest are usual settings like frame rate, bit rate, etc, if u know how to configure it manually it should work w.o a problem. Look on SM site in ur profile at HD tutorial how to configure encoder manually, u need a little knowledge tho but its not rocket science :)

gingerstripper
07-03-2013, 10:31 AM
anyone feel like a chunk a dunk with the settings, im sure i look fatter on sm than mfc

VictoriaChaos
07-03-2013, 11:28 AM
UGH.
Getting so discouraged with you streamate!

Nina_Den
07-03-2013, 12:21 PM
The new medium setting SM sent yesterday is so not working for me.SMH.Is anyone having luck with the new setting?

Doesn't work for me either. When I tried it the other day, I looked blurry and my placement dropped. I'm always using the old encoder settings that Snowy0Star (:heartbeat) posted a while ago.

sylvieblue
07-03-2013, 12:40 PM
Sylvie,when you say ppl coming in and leaving without a word,do you mean that guys are logging in sporadically,like maybe one here,one there,another 10 sec later,another 2 min later,one maybe 5 min after that guy til they all eventually trickle out of your room one at a time,without ever saying a word? OR do you mean that you start streaming,get a rush of viewers into your room all at once,you try to engage them but then they all leave your room almost at the same exact time,without ever saying a word?

If its the latter - go to page 230 on here and read the 2nd post from the top (this is assuming we have our settings the same,but if not,you'll find it regardless) from Nina Den.She posted a pic of her encoder log - the next time this happens to you,go check your log and see if it looks like what Nina posted or something similar to it,with lots of disconnecting/reconnecting going on.Several ladies responded to Nina so I'd def scroll down and read their input as well.

If you find your log similar,it's kicking all of the guys out of your room.You're disconnecting but not long enough for a disconnection notice to be sent to you,as the encoder is reconnecting you before it gets to that point.I kept having the same thing happen - it literally would look like a herd of members would FLOOD into my room,then not long after,they'd all disappear almost as quickly,with naught a word to be uttered by any of them.

I KNEW it wasn't just some stray hoard of lurkers randomly hitting my room then all of them silently skipping away holding hands together.Before I realized what was happening,I would check out my room through my cammodels link and everything would look just peachy keen,which just baffled the shit out of me.Eventually I started studying my log when the "wave" would come through,and realized that I was disconnecting over and over again.So even if you appear to look fine through your link,you still may be disconnecting regardless.I have no idea how that works,perhaps someone with the answer will indulge me but it's neither here nor there - the lesson would be to not always rely on your cammodels link for answers,and to instead learn to "see" your room through your encoder log (I myself am still working on that part)

Yes that's exactly whats happening. Yesterday I had a solid wall of customers logged in and logged off within a few seconds. Thank you SO much for the encoder tip. Ill check it out when I log on tonight.

tinydancer23
07-03-2013, 12:56 PM
after a six-month sabbatical (due to serious trauma), i'm baaaaaack. working f/t vanilla and p/t on sm (and about to start up again on cams.com). missed y'all.

okay, so i played with the new settings yesterday (high and medium).

i have a 1.5yr old lenovo laptop with an i5 at 2.4ghz, 6gb ram, running windows 7 64-bit. logitech 9000. my eventual goal is to upgrade to an i7 desktop (probably in a few months). i have around 7mb upload with very little bounce.

but - when i was on streamate before, streaming in hd with the encoder at 800 and an fps of 15-30, it only took up about 30% of my cpu power. now BOTH the high and medium settings take up 95-100% of my cpu, no matter how much i play with the settings. i've managed to adjust the settings to push my placement a teeny bit higher than it was when i first started back (getting reset to four stars BLOWS), but i still cannot get it to stop overwhelming my cpu. the settings are not that different than the old ones, the only difference is the image size (and what the hell is up with the image size in input being different than in output in sm's default settings?).

so why is it killing my computer? and how do i make it stop?

roast
07-03-2013, 01:01 PM
(WELCOME BACK tiny!)

bigbootyjudy1
07-03-2013, 01:06 PM
You guys if the encoder is not working for you.try using a different web broswer. Before i was using Mozilla and it kept making my encoder freeze up .Also Mozilla kept not responding everytime i was in a gold show.All i can say is my stream is perfect from what i see ,since i switch over to the chrome browser.

Billabong
07-03-2013, 01:19 PM
anyone feel like a chunk a dunk with the settings, im sure i look fatter on sm than mfc

Can't stand widescreen. I do look weird and with my cam positioned normally all you have room to see is my neck and boobs.. It makes my feed pixely too. I keep signing on without encoder and putting it back to standard. I hope they don't take that away!

kittykrane
07-03-2013, 01:43 PM
I like the new WS...I have a hard time seeing as it is, so the bigger the better. When I switch back to the lower quality settings, it's a bigger difference. My placement seems fine and my traffic seems the same. When I can afford to, I'm upgrading to a 28" monitor! 22" is too small...

temptingmodel
07-03-2013, 02:28 PM
I am seriously thinking about hooking the HDMI up to the TV lol
I like the new WS...I have a hard time seeing as it is, so the bigger the better. When I switch back to the lower quality settings, it's a bigger difference. My placement seems fine and my traffic seems the same. When I can afford to, I'm upgrading to a 28" monitor! 22" is too small...

Nina_Den
07-03-2013, 04:46 PM
After almost a month of using the encoder without any issues, during the last couple of days, everytime I use it and for a couple of hours afterwards, my processor/fan/god-knows-what starts randomly making kind of a... hiss? It proceeds for a couple of seconds, then stops, then reappear. My CPU usage never exceeds 60%, though.

Does using the encoder ruin my computer? O_o

AliceFun
07-03-2013, 05:12 PM
I am seriously thinking about hooking the HDMI up to the TV lol

I tried to do this but for some reason is not working, cant tell why, both my flat tv and desktop pc support hdmi connection but for some reason i could not get it to work, i sent my son to return the cable to the shop. why the heck was not working? samsung tv and HP pc booohhh, i soo want a huge screen when i work!! my monitor is 17 inches regular size (not wide).

SoloDesire
07-03-2013, 09:06 PM
Super slow for me tonight. Maybe the holiday is the cause...maybe it's my face. Either way, I'm done in an hour.

Fallenangel2904
07-03-2013, 09:10 PM
Super slow for me tonight. Maybe the holiday is the cause...maybe it's my face. Either way, I'm done in an hour.

Slow for me too. I think its the holiday...or its my face too lol. I think people must have started partying early...fuck them all! lol

SarahTime
07-03-2013, 11:09 PM
Shit. During the best night I had in a while, I noticed that while I look normal to myself on the encoder, the same members kept on going in and out of my room for 10 minutes, without saying anything, over and over again. I realized something MUST be wrong, so I looked at my encoding log, and noticed this has been happing for the latest minutes -

34101

Umm, yeah. What's going on? I've never had any problems with the encoder before. I tried restarting my computer, but it didn't help. Anybody knows what it is? :(

EDIT: Yeah, I just realized my Windows username is there, but nevermind, I'll live through it.

This happened to me several times tonight (the thing showing in the encoder log)... I'm going to poke around and see what I can do to get it to quit happening... it's never happened before now.

Happened at the end of a gold show too!!!!! Everyone said it cut out at the very end and I thought I wasn't going to be paid but then FINALLY the earnings started showing up but it took MUCH longer than usual.

If I find out any way to fix it I'll let you know.

Cam_Model_Jess
07-03-2013, 11:13 PM
I tried to do this but for some reason is not working, cant tell why, both my flat tv and desktop pc support hdmi connection but for some reason i could not get it to work, i sent my son to return the cable to the shop. why the heck was not working? samsung tv and HP pc booohhh, i soo want a huge screen when i work!! my monitor is 17 inches regular size (not wide).

Did you choose "duplicate screen" on monitor settings? I use my TV sometimes.

Snowy0Star
07-03-2013, 11:42 PM
I am seriously thinking about hooking the HDMI up to the TV lol
thats what i did before my laptop broke. i had 32inch led flat hooked up and i used to split on mfc and cb and when i was on sm i used to watch anime on the 32 and use sm on the laptop screen

Snowy0Star
07-03-2013, 11:43 PM
Did you choose "duplicate screen" on monitor settings? I use my TV sometimes.

its the extend screen option using duplicate screen would make everything on ur monitor show up on ur computer screen and the tv

temptingmodel
07-04-2013, 10:24 AM
I had a dude set mine up last year. my problem is volume.. how do I do the volume, it will not go through :(