Question / Help Viewers are 6 seconds behind my stream

[Rabiator]

Helo guys,

whenever i try to stream, my viewers moan about having a delay about 5-6 seconds although i didnt put any delay on the stream.

is that normal? if not, what can i do to reduce the delay to a minimum?

thanks in advance,

Rabiator

 

[Kharay]

You could try experimenting a bit with a lower bitrate and/or a different streaming server, for starters.

 

[alpinlol]

thats the internet ... therefore you got a ping or delay

 

[dodgepong]

6 seconds is a fairly normal delay for streaming.

 

[FerretBomb]

Yeah. 6 seconds for you to receive their message, have the video captured, composited, encoded, buffered, uploaded to your service's intake server, processed, redistributed across the backbone to a local sub-server, buffered again, downloaded by them, decoded and displayed?

That's pretty damn fast. Tell them to manage their expectations.

Some freaking people just don't understand exactly how ridiculously, insanely fast 6 seconds is for all of that work.

 

[alpinlol]

nono ... some people just dont understand how the internet works

 

[Kharay]

Just as an example:

102p, 100 Kbps... and the roundtrip still took 3.1 seconds. So, yeah... some delay is inevitable. Although it does tend to increase with high bitrates and resolutions. At a more normal resolution and bitrate, the roundtrip increased to 4 seconds.