Vertical video syndrome is a serious affliction.
Twitch is getting vertical livestreams
Submitted 4 days ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Mobile users are a cancer.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Are you really using Lemmy from a desktop? You sat in front of some high powered PC and THIS was the best thing you could find to do?
Sincerely, Guy on a toilet
simplejack@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Looks like this is an opt-in, supplemental crop mode, for streamers who have stuff that would work well for vertical orientations. Talking head stuff, live solo-artist music, etc.
The existing content experience is still there, but if you’re standing on the subway, and you’re watching a streamer react to a press release about a game, you can turn your phone and watch them babble in landscape while you hold the poll.
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh, yeah, that makes sense. I kinda assumed they already supported it, like YouTube Shorts adopting the vertical format for shorts after Ticktock blew up.
WereCat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ll just leave this video guide here to cure world of this cancer
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I’ll just leave this video guide here to cure world of this cancer
Fixed that for you.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 4 days ago
We’re getting vertical streams before 21:9 aspect ratio support. Come on
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ultrawide is extremely niche compare to vertical resolutions/aspect ratio. It’s not even close.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
Ah, yes
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dinckelman@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I understand that the overwhelming majority of people will still continue streaming at 16:9, or the vertical equivalent. It’s not just about ownership of ultrawide displays. It’s about support for such output format, for people who do want it. But even going by your own example, a ton of phones are 19.5:9, with some models straight up being 21:9
Glitchvid@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Getting vertical video before modern codecs (AV1∨HEVC), and the same bitrate limitations since it was justin.tv.
It’s impressive how stagnant Twitch is, and how expensive it’s purported to be.