Can you twitch stream ROMs?

It is perfectly fine to use an emulator on Twitch. The use of emulators is very popular, especially within the speedrunning and retro game communities. The real issue lies in the use of playing specific game ROMs. It is not only against Twitch TOS to play a cracked version of a game, but it is also illegal.

What language is twitch coded in?

Ruby

Does twitch use UDP?

Generally, ‘real time’ connections (e.g. VoIP, online gaming, video streaming) will use UDP, because it has less overhead. What confuses me is I just did a wireshark capture of a live twitch.tv stream, and noticed it uses RTMP – which is carried by TCP.

Does twitch use AWS?

AWS is used to host and deliver content for its main site (Twitch.tv), streaming and mobile sites it owns. Here is the spending breakdown of AWS products used by Twitch, with the most money being spent on Amazon EC2: Amazon CloudFront — $1 million/month.

Is twitch a CDN?

CDN: Twitch CDN (Probably) However, it’s fairly well known in the industry that Twitch runs its own CDN – I checked other streams coming off Twitch and they seem to be coming from similar hostnames within the same IP ranges as the one I recorded while watching Thursday Night Football.

What is Livestreaming CDN?

As the name suggests, a content delivery network (CDN) is a system of geographically distributed servers used to transport media files. This removes the bottleneck of traffic that could result from delivering streams with a single server, as only a single stream is required for each rendition of an outbound video.

Is YouTube live a CDN?

Basically a CDN is nothing more than a bunch of globally distributed computers that are directly connected and move data from one end to another. A good example of this is YouTube. There are more than 6 billion hours of video each month watched by YouTube users.