Originally Posted by
amanda121
Hi! I started camming on SM in february, but later took a break for a couple of weeks until I upgrade my internet speed and computer. Right now I have only 0.35 mbps upload speed and I tried to use HD encoder just to see how it is going. For me is not much worse than without it(I have extremely bad stream even without it-freezing, showing private chat message, black screen etc.).
At the very begining, when I started camming without the encoder and I had a bad resolution cam without audio, I was placed somewhere 10-13th page. There were always around 2-3 pages of girls behind me, excluding the girls in private chat(as I noticed when you go in pvt placement drops at the end of the row). Than I tried streaming with the encoder and then I was on page 6 or 7.
Last week I bought better resolution cam with mic and went on just to check my placement. I was on page 4(top or bottom, depending on other girls online). Yesterday I was checking placement again and I noticed I'm on page 4 only if I use the encoder settings as they are when I open it, but if I use "lower quality settings"(file from their page), my placement drops to 13-15th page! Which means lower as I ever was! Isn't encoder supposed to be for better placement? HD button and mic is showing by my picture in both cases, so I don't know what is the problem. And I tried to check which settings in the encoder are different in "lower quality", but could not find any. Is it possible that SM somehow doesn't detect I'm using encoder in this case or is it normal? I'm using 3.1 version.