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# \&preloadbitrate

Can be used to change the pre-load target bitrate for scenes

Viewer-Side Option! ([`&scene`](/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/scene.md))

## Options

Example: `&preloadbitrate=500`

| Value           | Description                                    |
| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| (integer value) | specified video bitrate in kbps                |
| `0`             | disables preloading the scene                  |
| `-1`            | allows for unlocked bitrates during preloading |

## Details

The `&preloadbitrate` flag can be used to change the pre-load target bitrate for scenes. You can set this higher or lower, or set to 0 to disable pre-loading all together. I'd strongly *avoid* setting this to 0, as it can cause the video to stall out all together.

Videos not yet added to [`&scene=1`](/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/scene.md) will have the audio bitrate drop to 16-kbps. Scene 1 has always been special, as the video pre-loads there, so the quality ramps up immediately and guests appear immediately. Other scenes (>1) or custom scenes will need to ramp up from 0 bitrate, which can take some time to load and ramp up, but this is needed - can't have every scene pre-loaded else things get overloaded.

You can override all this logic I'm using for pre-loading bitrates of videos in scenes now with `&preloadbitrate=500` or whatever, where the value is in kbps.\
`0` disables preloading the scene.\
`-1` allows for unlocked bitrates during preloading.

## Related

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MZdvjAL58404IcgJBTn" %}
[\&scene](/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/scene.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/RCNp9IITQpR15x9Em5dS" %}
[\&hiddenscenebitrate](/advanced-settings/mixer-scene-parameters/and-hiddenscenebitrate.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}


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