Hey eterm, this is not the case, we are not blocking chromecast on purpose. Can you send me an email at [email protected] and I'll happily gather the error data to ease troubleshooting.

I had troubles recently too with Twitch and Chromecast. I was trying to watch Heroes of the storm Mid season brawl, and it was always saying that it could not display the stream. Other channels were fine. Would it be a case of encoding like others comments are suggesting?

I'm pretty sure this is an isolated instance as I've just watched twitch on Chromecast last week. Jumping out and blaming Tiwtch based on one instance and forming a conspiracy theory about amazon promoting fire stick is as unhelpful as it can get. Why is this so high in the comments?

I've watched Twitch via my Chromecast as recently as a few days ago, so it's certainly not true in general that Twitch blocks Chromecast. A few reddit threads suggest that some streams might use an encoding that Chromecast doesn't support, though.

I have a fire stick (gifted to me) and the twitch app on it is awful. Bad enough that even I noticed. As far as I can tell there is no way to filter the videos by language/region like I can on the desktop. The videos are displayed in 'current viewers' descending order and I have to scroll for a while and hope that the stream title has enough info to guess at the language (I don't have favorite streamers, I will watch whoever).

I haven't found a way around this in the months I have had it and half the time I use the youtube app and watch a pre-recorded game instead.

I only watch Twitch on Android TV (with their awful that decides to log you off periodically), but seriously, WTF Twitch ? Why block Chromecast ?

BTW, did you try any technical workaround?

My chromecast works perfectly.

TIL there are hacker news readers who use such awful garbage as chromecast and Android TV...

Not all HN readers/commenters are in the Bay Area ;-)

Really? https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1691460-chro...

WTF Amazon ? I also did that, but only in summer (for architectural reasons). I'm already pissed I won't be able to do that this summer. Thank you for the heads up.

I only run into this issue when I try to watch replays (previously streamed content). Which sucks... frankly. I hate navigating through content on YouTube.