Twitch compared to YouTube
"Twitch" is the newbie of the Online video platforms and mainly intended for games. The focus is on live streams, and not, as in other portals on the Videos, which are available at any time.
- Videos: At the Twitch Videos will be recorded by streaming this live. You can save Videos for up to 90 days, in order to make it available to users. A regular Upload of Videos is not possible. As a Streamer, you have the opportunity to have recorded Videos afterwards on YouTube.
- Quality: Since the Videos are not in any of the quality of the upload, the quality is always dependent on the connection speed of you as a Streamer. If a live stream problems occur, you can see these later in the stored Video. A big weak point of the portal storing the Videos as FLV files is also. Although these are relatively small and so space-saving for the Portal, the quality is much worse than the other portals.
- Community Features: On Twitch, you can log in as a user to stream to yourself, or leave comments to other Videos. To miss no Video, you can follow other users and be notified by E-Mail when they start a new live stream.
- Advertising: Prior to each Video on Twitch, you have to look at an ad spot. Continue to make money live streamer and the Portal with extended subscriptions.
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YouTube compared to Twitch
"YouTube" is the largest video portal in the world and offers you many ways to Publish your video projects.
- Videos: to make a Video available on YouTube, you can upload it just as a user of the portal. Furthermore, it is possible to stream Videos on YouTube live. In Germany, but can be, for legal reasons, no live stream is viewed, so this Feature makes no sense here. All uploaded Videos are saved in different qualities and can be retrieved at any time.
- Quality: YouTube has theoretically no limits to the quality and size of Videos, the settings you can but on the basis of Video presets to optimize. In the video player, you can set the quality between 240p and now also 4K in steps. Videos are saved in the efficient MP4 Format, the outstanding quality with a space-saving provides compression methods. The Download of Videos from YouTube is not provided, programs such as "jDownloader" remedy the problem.
- Community Features: Since the Videos without time limitation are available, are the video reviews and comments from the users in the foreground. You can subscribe to different channels, and then can go under "My subscriptions" with the latest Videos in chronological order.
- Additional Features: YouTube offers an Online video editor as well as a very large database of royalty-free music tracks. You can download these to use at your convenience in your Videos.
- Advertising: As the Creator of the video, you can decide whether or not a Video advertising should be or not. You can also decide on overlays during video playback. Most of the commercials you can click away after five seconds, depending on the size of the channel, it may also be that you are a complete advertising spot must see.
YouTube Videportal
Twitch vs. YouTube: Which Portal you should use?
YouTube offers you much more possibilities than Twitch. The gap that is created through legal problems with the live stream, however, will be filled by Twitch.
- Twitch is limited to the Stream of Play and thus offers no great legal attack surface. While on YouTube many music videos are uploaded, is this on Twitch not possible. The only reason why the live streams are allowed there at all.
- Except in the case of live streams, video projects, YouTube is for all the other preferable. You want to stream your formats live, you should upload them to YouTube to make them available for the long term.
- YouTube is not the only Alternative to Twitch. Which Video portals are still recommended , read in a different article.
YouTube quality and Abooptionen
In a further practical tip we will show you what you can do if Twitch game.
