Twitch, YouTube y Facebook are the 3 streaming video platforms that allow content creators to broadcast their games live. While it is true that there are other platforms on the market, these are hardly used and are not as popular as these three, which is why these are the ones that concentrate the most popular streamers.
If we have to highlight one, that is Twitch, the true queen of streaming video games. Since Amazon compared it in 2014, the platform has only grown to become an industry benchmark. If you want watch multiple Twitch streams jointly, you cannot do it directly from their website.
While there are users who like to install any application, no matter how useless it may seem, to many others, they conscientiously study which applications and which applications not to install, since, in the long run, the equipment will begin to show signs of weakness and we we will be forced to restore it completely from scratch.
If you've ever had the need to watch more than one Twitch stream together, you may have used two different tabs in your browser and placed them next to each other.
Although it is not a comfortable solution, is perfectly valid. However, on the internet we have at our disposal other much simpler solutions that do not require the installation of any application since they are web pages.
Through these web pages, you can jointly view from 2 to 9 streams simultaneously, ideal for following a competition between several streamers without having to go through the official broadcast.
The problem with these platforms
Streamers who broadcast through Twitch have several sources of income:
- People who subscribe to your channel using one of the 3 subscription types you offer.
- The advertising that is shown in video format during the broadcast.
- Bit (Twitch money) and real money donations.
- brand sponsorships
Since advertising is one of the main sources of income for streamers and Twitch, the company continually monitors that users are accessing its platform from its website, without using third-party pages or applications that may interfere with the advertising they show.
When we use any of these platforms, Twitch detects it and regularly, it will show us on the screen with a purple background, with a message that invites us to stop using it.
This message is displayed for 30 seconds every so often and there is no way to remove or block it.
The web pages that allow us to enjoy several streams at the same time, prevent advertising from being displayed, which is why they harm both the streamer and Twitch financially.
This is the only price that must be paid to be able to use these platforms, platforms that are totally free and that do not include any type of advertising.
A powerful team is needed
Another aspect that we must take into account and with which we are going to face you in all the options that we show you in this article, is that it is necessary to have a very good Internet connection in addition to a fairly powerful PC and a lot of RAM, as long as when we want to see more than 4 streams simultaneously.
Natively, Twitch broadcasts the signal in 1080p. There are four different signals that the browser and our team have to channel in order to view the content without interruptions.
If your intention is to watch two streams together, you will not have a problem, even if you have an old computer. If, even so, the image stutters, the only solution left to us is to reduce the resolution of the streamings.
In this way, we are going to reduce the graphic load that the equipment has to support in addition to the amount of bandwidth necessary to be able to reproduce the content with sufficient fluidity.
It is useless to see two streams at 1080 when they are not being shown in full screen. 720 is more than enough. If instead of 2 you want to see 4, the ideal is to reduce the resolution to 480. You will hardly notice the difference in quality in such a small image.
twitchtheater.tv
TwitchTheather.tv is one of the most complete solutions available on the internet to watch various Twitch streams in a browser tab. This web page allows us to jointly establish the resolution we want the videos to show, so we can quickly check if our equipment is powerful enough.
The maximum number of streams that this platform offers us is 9, distributed in three rows and columns of 3. It also allows us to mute all the streams together, so that the chat is shown (which will occupy the space of a stream).
multistre.am
Multistre.am allows us to enjoy up to 8 streamins together, reserving the last space to show the chat of one of the 8 streamins that are being played through this platform.
Using this platform is very simple. In the available spaces on your web page, we must paste the URL of the channel of the stream we want and press enter. When we have entered all the channels, we can choose the distribution we want and press the Watch Streams button.
MultiTwitch.tv
Although this platform does not offer us any type of interface to interact with it, it is the best option if we want to enjoy different streams and interact with the chats of each channel.
It allows us to play up to 9 different streams (in 3×3 format), reserving the right part of the screen to show all the chats separated by tabs.
To use this platform, we must write multitwitch.tv followed by the names of the channels and separated by slashes.
Example: To see the makina and axozer channels, the URL that we must write in the browser is
multitwitch.tv/axozer/makina
Rare Drop Multi to watch streaming from different platforms
Rare Drop Multi is a platform that allows us to enjoy streaming from different platforms together. The maximum number of streams is 4.
Before adding each of the URLs of the channels that we want to see, we must previously select the platform to which it corresponds, be it Twitch, YouTube, Facebook...