Question / Help speed delay

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maen abu arra

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dear sir;
we are trying to use your OBS as streaming software to stream to wowza server .
we noticed steady delay of up to 8 -10 sec ;
we tried all setting options ,but no results.
please advise.
thanks
 
There will be alway a delay even with tuning the complete setup. Those are the laws of nature. (not a figure of speech btw).
But keep in mind that you almost give no information about your setup so i can only give some general advice.

Personally im not familiar with a wowza server and how it works but i managed to reduce the latency in a gigabit lan setup to about 4 secs with a nginx server (from broadcast to viewer)
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You could try to use some advanced x264 encoder settings like lowlatency but please be informed that those settings come with a quality reduction.
I would advide to read up on that on internet before you endavour into those settings as it can give unexpected results if you dont know what you are doing.

Hopefully someone else can help you specificly about a wowza server setup. or contact their support to see if they can help you on the server side settings.
 
Most of the delay in streaming video comes from buffering in the player. The player is attempting to ensure that it has enough data to stream without stopping or stuttering. The amount of data it needs is a function of the frame size (bigger pictures have more bits), and the speed of your connection. Different players optimize in different ways. The wowza server needs to do the same thing. Depending on how you are connected to it, it will buffer more or less. In some situations delays of 30 seconds or more are possible.

If you're watching an OBS stream through a Wowza streaming engine, then there are two different systems (Wowza and the player) that are both buffering. 8 to 10 seconds is actually shorter than I would expect in most situations.
 
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