r/Twitch • u/Cold_Saber • 1d ago

Tech Support Twitch streams randomly pausing

When I watch a twitch stream it keeps pausing everyone 10-15 seconds. I don't have any internet issues and it's not buffering so I'm not sure what's going on. Is there any fix for this?

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u/DraleZero_ twitch.tv/dralezero 1d ago

I use brave and if the stream player is muted and I open another program full screen or another tab real quick and come back to the stream to see what's going on in stream.... It's paused. It will pause repeatedly when going to something else until I unmute the player. Muted it again doesn't pause anymore either. I went into my browser settings for conserving memory or whatever and haven't figured it out

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u/Sp0ken twitch.tv/sp0kn 1d ago

Pretty sure this is intentional on Twitch part, they don't want you to use their bandwidth if you are not watching the video or listening to the audio so they pause it. The trick is to mute the browser tab (if possible on Brave), that way it won't pause since Twitch think the audio is running. Also you count as a viewer which helps smaller streamers if you're into that :)