Configure Your Hitorino Stream Settings and Schedule

Your stream settings control everything about how your broadcast looks, how your audience interacts with it, and when it happens. Getting these dialed in before you go live means fewer interruptions mid-stream and a more consistent experience for your viewers. You can adjust most settings while live without restarting your broadcast, but it’s easier to configure everything in advance. Access all stream settings at Dashboard → Settings → Stream.

Stream Quality Settings

Hitorino accepts any ingest resolution and bitrate within the limits below and automatically transcodes your stream into multiple quality levels for adaptive bitrate playback. Viewers see the highest quality their connection supports.

Ingest Limits

Setting	Maximum
Resolution	4K (3840×2160)
Frame rate	60 fps
Video bitrate	40,000 Kbps
Audio bitrate	320 Kbps
Keyframe interval	2 seconds (required)

Always set your keyframe interval to exactly 2 seconds in your streaming software. A longer keyframe interval causes choppy playback and delays in the Hitorino player. In OBS: Settings → Output → Streaming → Keyframe Interval = 2.

Recommended Encoding Presets

Choose a target output quality based on the type of content you stream. These are suggested settings for your encoder — not restrictions imposed by Hitorino.

Gaming (1080p60)
Just Chatting / Talking Head
Music / Art (High Quality)

Resolution:        1920×1080
Frame Rate:        60 fps
Video Bitrate:     6,000 Kbps (CBR)
Audio Bitrate:     160 Kbps
Encoder:           x264 (veryfast) or NVENC (Quality)
Keyframe Interval: 2 seconds
Profile:           High

Fast motion and particle effects in games benefit from the higher frame rate and bitrate headroom. Drop to 720p60 if your CPU or GPU struggles to maintain stable encoding.

Resolution:        1920×1080
Frame Rate:        30 fps
Video Bitrate:     3,000 Kbps (CBR)
Audio Bitrate:     128 Kbps
Encoder:           x264 (faster) or NVENC (Performance)
Keyframe Interval: 2 seconds
Profile:           High

Talking-head and low-motion content is much more efficient to encode. 30 fps at 3,000 Kbps looks clean and leaves CPU headroom for other applications.

Resolution:        1920×1080
Frame Rate:        30 fps (60 fps for performance streams)
Video Bitrate:     8,000–12,000 Kbps (CBR)
Audio Bitrate:     320 Kbps
Encoder:           x264 (slow) or NVENC (Quality)
Keyframe Interval: 2 seconds
Profile:           High

Music and digital art streams benefit from the highest available audio bitrate and a slightly slower encoder preset for better detail retention in fine linework and gradients.

For music streams, set your audio sample rate to 48 kHz in OBS (Settings → Audio → Sample Rate). Hitorino’s audio pipeline is optimized for 48 kHz input.

Latency Mode

Latency mode controls the trade-off between stream delay and stability. Choose based on how interactive your stream is.

Normal Latency

Delay: 10–20 secondsBest for pre-planned content, watch-alongs, or streams where real-time chat interaction isn’t critical. More buffering headroom means fewer quality drops and stalls for viewers on unstable connections.

Low Latency

Delay: 3–6 secondsBest for interactive streams where you read and respond to chat constantly — Q&As, multiplayer games with viewer participation, live coding, or community events. Requires a stable, high-upload-speed connection to perform reliably.

Change your latency mode under Stream Settings → Latency Mode. The change takes effect the next time you go live.

Low latency mode increases the chance of rebuffering events for viewers on slow connections. If your audience is global or you notice viewer complaints about buffering, switch to Normal Latency for a smoother experience across all connection qualities.

Chat Settings

Configure how chat behaves on your channel under Stream Settings → Chat.

Basic Chat Controls

Enable or Disable Chat

Toggle Enable Chat on or off. When chat is disabled, the chat panel is hidden from your channel page entirely and viewers see a message indicating chat is turned off for this stream.

Set Minimum Account Age

Choose how old a viewer’s account must be before they can chat. Options range from None (any account) to 30 days. This reduces the effectiveness of throwaway troll accounts.

None
10 minutes
1 hour
1 day
7 days
30 days

Require Email Verification

Enable Verified Emails Only to require that chatters have confirmed their email address. Combined with a minimum account age, this significantly reduces spam and harassment from new accounts.

Access Modes

Restrict who can send messages in your chat:

Mode	Who Can Chat
Everyone	Any viewer who meets the account age and email settings
Followers Only	Viewers who follow your channel
Subscribers Only	Active paying subscribers

Switch between modes mid-stream from the Chat Controls panel in Stream Manager — you don’t need to end your broadcast to change the chat mode.

Slow Mode

Slow mode adds a cooldown between messages per user, reducing the rate of chat during high-viewership streams so you can read messages without them flying past. Enable Slow Mode and choose a cooldown interval:

3 seconds
5 seconds
10 seconds
30 seconds
60 seconds (1 minute)
120 seconds (2 minutes)

Subscribers are exempt from slow mode by default. Toggle Apply Slow Mode to Subscribers if you want it to apply universally.

Emote-Only Mode

Enable Emote-Only Mode to restrict chat to Hitorino emotes only — no text messages. This mode is useful for high-energy moments in streams where you want collective expression without having to read text.

Stream Scheduling

Scheduling a stream creates a public listing on your channel so followers know when you’re going live next, and lets Hitorino send advance notifications on your behalf.

Open the Scheduler

Go to Dashboard → Schedule or click Schedule a Stream from the Creator Dashboard home panel.

Fill In Stream Details

Enter the same details you’d set for a live stream: title, category, tags, and thumbnail. You can update these later, even after the event is published.

Set the Date and Time

Use the date-time picker to set your planned start time. Times are shown in your local timezone. Hitorino converts and displays the time in each viewer’s local timezone automatically on the event page.

Set a Duration Estimate

Enter an estimated duration (optional). This appears on your schedule listing so viewers know roughly how long the stream will run. It doesn’t impose a hard stop on your broadcast.

Publish the Event

Click Publish Schedule. The event appears immediately on your channel’s Schedule tab and is eligible for follower notifications.

Scheduled streams do not start automatically. You still need to go live manually using your browser or streaming software at the scheduled time. If you’re running late, the event listing updates to show a “Starting Soon” badge automatically 30 minutes after the scheduled time.

Follower Notifications

Control when and how Hitorino notifies your followers under Stream Settings → Notifications.

Go Live Notification

Send a push notification and email to followers who have notifications enabled when you start a broadcast. Toggle this on or off globally, or disable it for individual streams from the Stream Manager before going live.

Scheduled Stream Reminder

Hitorino sends a reminder notification to followers 15 minutes before a scheduled stream. This is enabled automatically for any published schedule event. Disable it per-event in the Schedule settings.

Video Upload Notification

Notify followers when you publish a new video to your library. Configure this per-upload during the upload flow, or set a default under Notification Defaults.

Notification Cooldown

If you go live multiple times in a day, Hitorino enforces a 4-hour cooldown between go-live notifications to prevent over-notifying your followers. Scheduled stream reminders are exempt from the cooldown.

VOD and Replay Settings

Control how your streams are saved and displayed after they end under Stream Settings → VOD.

Auto-Save Streams as VODs

Enable Auto-Save Streams to automatically save every broadcast as a VOD without a prompt when you end the stream. If disabled, you’ll be asked whether to save each time you end a broadcast.

Set Default VOD Privacy

Choose the default privacy level for saved VODs:

Same as Stream — VOD inherits the privacy setting of the live stream.
Public — VOD is always public regardless of who could watch the live stream.
Subscribers Only — VOD is always subscriber-gated even if the live stream was public.

You can override this per-VOD after saving.

Set VOD Expiry

Choose how long Hitorino stores your VODs:

Plan	Max VOD Storage
Creator Starter	14 days per VOD
Creator Pro	60 days per VOD
Creator Studio	Unlimited

After the retention period, VODs are permanently deleted. Download any VODs you want to keep before they expire from Library → VODs → Download.

Enable Highlight Clipping

Toggle Allow Viewers to Clip to let your viewers create short clips (30 seconds – 3 minutes) from your live stream or VODs. Clips appear in the Clips tab on your channel page. You can review and delete any clip from your Library.

​Stream Quality Settings

​Ingest Limits

​Recommended Encoding Presets

​Latency Mode

Normal Latency

Low Latency

​Chat Settings

​Basic Chat Controls

​Access Modes

​Slow Mode

​Emote-Only Mode

​Stream Scheduling

​Follower Notifications

Go Live Notification

Scheduled Stream Reminder

Video Upload Notification

Notification Cooldown

​VOD and Replay Settings

Stream Quality Settings

Ingest Limits

Recommended Encoding Presets

Latency Mode

Chat Settings

Basic Chat Controls

Access Modes

Slow Mode

Emote-Only Mode

Stream Scheduling

Follower Notifications

VOD and Replay Settings