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Wedneddays are now becoming slow with an insane amount of time wasters. Anyone agree or is it just me? Where are u bb? Gold show? Show me Pusey bb x1000
Laptop processors can be throttled and features turned off that actually make them worse than their posted specs. This is to help save power (even if you use "full power/plugged in" settings) and save on heat because the heat control on laptops generally sucks.
If you feel the need to walk around with a laptop, you can actually run the encoder on the desktop computer separately if you copy the broadcast code over to it. There's a number of rare situations that you might find this useful.
I also just went back to the old settings and set up I was using before the new settings were released to see if it'll make a difference. It went from tumbleweeds to a few old regulars chatting, I'll rock it tonight and see how it goes. After 4 days of silence and feeling like I should work at McDonalds instead, I need to do something. /:
^^^ Does this mean SM cant support the new settings properly & is better to lower them? Cause many of my regulars came in, talked a bit and left all of a sudden or they did not talk at all and i knew these guys were good spenders?! Hmmm, i will for sure lower my settings to see if i do better with them, just for the case.
^^ that's what I'm getting at... With new setting in my i7 I had a a dead room and no money...now I at least get traffic if it's dead
I'm honestly starting to think this way..... I checked over my earnings and time online in pvt vs what I was making before the switch, vs what I'm making since the switch and it's grim. This week I don't even KNOW what's going on! From 60% time online in pvt prior to the new settings.... To 30-40% time online in pvt with the new settings..... To 10-20% this week. Sure my cam looks amazing in hd (who doesn't?) but it's not amazing if I'm the only one or a few others that can see it. I'm going to run the good ol, 800 bitrate 864x480 settings the rest of the week and see how it goes. I'll Letcha guys know.
Also to add to that, today for the 20 mins I logged in in the old school non hd settings... I had a lot of people pop in and talk to me right away, whereas before they would cycle in and out like they couldn't connect or talk to me... Quite honestly I'm getting tired of talking to myself and the occasional asshat, even putting them down isn't making me feel any better. I'm sitting there like... Hi, guys.. I just got new extensions, took a bomb ass main pic, my hair looks freaking incredible, and you are NO WHERE to be found..... I log in on non hd, feeling like my cam looks like crap... 4 old regs pop up as I'm leaving... hey chelle you look AMAZING! So good to see you again! And I'm sitting there wondering like... Where have you been the last month? I mean it would make sense if they couldn't connect to my room, right? Let's hope my theory crafting works out, cause if that is the case I'm ready to get back to 'looking amazing' with a shittier image and making bank, then sitting around being frustrated all damn day.
I haven't streamed yet tonight, but yesterday was kind of weird for me. I had the most traffic I've ever had, but only a couple shows. I have no idea what my placement is, but my hours are pretty low so I usually have around 4-5 people in free chat at once. Last night, I averaged 10-15 people in free chat at once. Tons of them begging and/or being rude. I only made $30 yesterday and I was on from 3pm-8pm!!! It just felt so weird to me. I wasn't doing anything different than I normally do. Hopefully tonight goes better. I did have one guy on a tablet say a bar on the screen was covering me...?
Bar on the screen could be the blue banner at the bottom on the mobile app to go to pvt or give gold, so they can't see what's under it. Sometimes when I have my cam all the way up while getting dressed, custies on computers can see me from eyes up, tablet n phone guys can see the top of my head only cause of the blue bar in the way.
I made as much money on Streamate tonight (my first night of the week) as I did during all of last week. Oh, camming. You are a fickle mistress.
I wouldnt blame the new settings but the traffic being shitty.Guys I never seen before ,being rude and demanding makes me wonder where is SM advertising recently.I dont get any glitches except the bitrate drop once in a while and only ONE guy who said he gets a black screen.Couple weeks ago,for two days, I was getting a 5 sec delay or so ,always solved by restarting encoder.But it doesn`t matter that my room is glitch free because anyway past two days I only got douchebags in my room and very few paying customers.
welppp tonight I've had multiple people say they can't see me. One guy left private because he said the screen froze. The same people keep coming in and out over and over again like instantly. I guess it's my turn for glitches :( Just going to stick it out anyways and see how it goes.
With how; many customers and models have complained about the site and have stated that they've complained to SM, they seem to be ignoring us, and they obviously haven't fixed the glitches which have been a problem for more than a month maybe even 2 months (I'm not even sure how long these seriously glitches have been going on for at this point) I'm starting to believe that SM just doesn't care and that they may not fix these serious glitches. Its starting to seem like these serious glitches maybe just another thing we have to get use to.
Looks like a combination of low traffic AND some people not supporting our HD streams, that's what i get here cause seriously, what use to stream in true HD if our guys cant see us? There are places in the world with low internet speeds still, like in the UK, i have a regular from there who says he lives in western midlands and that's the best connection he can get and i know for a fact the UK is not 'developed' enough for high speeds, my internet here in EE is top notch compared with what u can get there.
Also there are people with slow pc's still and slow internet even in the US so yea, a lot of them might not be able to see us & get or stay connected.
Also i get old regulars saying "wow did not see u for a while, where have u been?" when i was here on cam regularly, for some reason they dont get to see me online?! Cant be all of them lie to me all at the same time, there must be 'something' else going on.
I'll try the old settings next time i go on cam cause seriously, i dont care to stream in true HD if most guys cant see me.
Also, is really demotivating to see how demanding, entitled & rude some of the guys are on SM, i swear this is my biggest turn off on cam lately, it was not like this years ago, i am not kidding, people used to be more respectful, say please & thank you, now they bark orders, throw insults & demand free performance, if u dont 'comply' they find something to pick on u & call u names or throw insults, i used to be treated like a princess, now .... the opposite, this is what i dont like about camming lately. SM changed soo much regarding members quality over the last few years :(
Also, must be SM is low on funds for buying proper traffic, maybe they overspent on the new things & now we got all shitty traffic, i really wish they sort things out there asap, from my years on site i figured out october is the month when things pick up after summer slump but well, u never really know how things are going to work this year?!? SM is pretty unpredictable i can say.
^^^ I think you might be misinformed about the uk's internet (or at least not up to date). I am camming from the west midlands just fine. I just testing my connection speed (locally) and got this:
I can get better if I am willing to pay more too. Also in some parts of the country here you can now get 1Gbps down and 1Gbps up.... an upload of 1000Mbps 8)
I definitely agree, because if they broke the site when they were implementing 720HD streaming (the site went down the Saturday after it was said the 720 streaming was going into place soon when Vanessa wrote in the forums here stating anyone who wanted the new settings early to email her to get them), then said they were holding off on the 720HD streaming being mandatory, perhaps the site cannot support it and thats why there is glitches after they fixed it? Then again why would they tell us to revert back? They're so shady and never reply to emails properly and keep us in the dark, so how would we know if they aren't supporting it and its not working properly? I'm not saying its 100% the reason why, but I am going to cam with the settings I used to use and hope for the best, I'd rather be off colored or not as clear resolution and making money then sitting here wondering why my stream is lagging 2-4 mins behind, pixelated, and no one is talking to me and dropping and leaving all of the sudden! When they implement it and make it mandatory and it is working right, then I will change back. I'm tired of giving my encoder the evil death glare when I see the bitrate or buffer going crazy, and I never had those problems streaming at 800bitrate ever. Can't hurt anything, thats for sure, hit the lowest of the low this afternoon... so we'll see how it goes.
Update with streaming back to the non-720HD settings.
I had no issues tonight, my RTT was constant and stayed within the 'good' range, my bit rate did not go up and down like crazy, no lag complaints, no lag from what I could see viewing myself, no buffer issue or dropped frames with the encoder, had a lot of nice traffic and hit my low goal within 2 hours online which I haven't been able to do within 4-5 hours these days. So, for me, its a win, and I know it won't completely fix 100% of the glitches I've been having, but it definitely is better than the 10/hr I was averaging for the past 4 days (literally) so I'll stick with this! Will keep posted for the next few days what I've noticed but I think it might have been my issue with all my lagging on my cam (even with the encoder using less than 40% resources with the 1280x720P settings and looking fine on my end). Im happy, regardless nice to finally make something worth a sh*t I started to feel like I needed to get a new job or something!!
What I've found out so far:
1) The 1280x720 video causes issues for users with older computers and slower connections (i.e. MOST users): the video looks all jumpy and laggy on my old laptop while looking just fine from the gaming one I'm using for work 2) The mobile version barely works with the old HD settings (tested with a tablet and a smartphone, the 1280x720 didn't load on either). 3) The streaming servers clearly can't handle the bandwidth needed.
I REALLY hope SM has it all sorted out before we are forced to use the new HD settings for better placement.
Can someone send me the older settings? I cannot seem to find them on my system... I want to test this theory out.
Bumping This ^^^ I'd love the old encoder settings too. I upgraded from a 10 years old 64-bit over heating mess of a computer to a super fast brand new i5 last week but somehow I'm doing worse?