Question / Help Best host/procedure for low latency?

[vocalnick]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to figure out how to get as low latency stream as possible. I do video editing work and I may have to work from interstate for some time, so I'm trying to set up a process where my business partner and I can collaborate while he "looks over my shoulder". I've tried various desktop sharing apps, but the video quality is uniformly terrible. OBS lets me get a very nice looking desktop stream going, but I'm finding the latency hard to bring down,

I have two separate internet connections here, so I've been able to test the real world lag from sending to receiving, I tried a free onyxservers RTMP trial, and saw around 30 seconds delay. YouTube Live gets me about 12 seconds delay, which is way better, but still higher than I'd like.

Of course I realise that some overhead is inevitable and I'm not going to get instant transmission, but faster would be better. Is there a silver bullet?

BTW I'm on OSX, but I could reluctantly use a Windows or Linux version on a second machine if it's a platform specific issue.

 

[Harold]

There is no silver bullet and 12s is going to be pretty close to the limit of what you're going to be able to do with RTMP based solutions.

 

[vocalnick]

Cool... thank you for the response.

Not entirely what I'd hoped to hear, but at least now I can concentrate on finessing a workflow rather than chasing an impossible ideal :)

 

[Narcogen]

If you absolutely need the lowest latency possible, look at beam.pro and OBS-FTL.

https://github.com/WatchBeam/obs-studio-ftl/releases

With RTMP you're not going to do much better than 7 seconds of latency, in my experience.

With Beam's FTL protocol you can get that to under 1 second.