Question / Help Stream Delay? minor question

[Official_TTG]

Im a bit new to streaming, being the Lead of TTG i decided to start streaming the guilds events and other random gameplay. I have 3mb/s Upload and have my system running on 1080p, everything looks/sounds great on my stream but i noticed a slight 3-4 second delay from what i do, to when it shows up on Twitch. Is this a upload/resolution issue? or is that pretty common and i should just continue on??

Honest Answers and small tips appreciated, thanks =D

 

[Cloudwolf]

it's common and 3-4 seconds is negligable. Think of it this way you need to send your data to twitch. twitch then recieves and deals with the data. They then send it out to people watching the stream who then have to recieve and deal with it this take some time. 3 to 4 seconds isn't much. If it was something like 30 seconds i would be concerned.

 

[dodgepong]

This is completely normal and there is no way to reduce it further than what you are doing.

 

[rincewind]

I've managed to reduce the delay to 2 seconds with my own server.
flash player that plays the stream has the buffering delay, can be set to 0 with custom player, but all flash players suck at h264 decoding and there is always 1-2s delay.
Using VP6 is lowers delay to about 0.3~0.5s, but OBS does not supports it. (or is there any way to change the codec?)

 

[Jack0r]

You would have to add a new encoder that can work with VP6. I think the x264 encoder cant do this.

 

[dodgepong]

I've managed to reduce the delay to 2 seconds with my own server.

With your own server, that would work, but for streaming to any decent amount of people, using your own server would be impractical for bandwidth reasons. If you're only streaming to a small handful of people, fine, but it sounds like OP streams to many more than that.