[FFmpeg-devel] Live streaming of VP8

[James Zern]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Andy Bell <allbabel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 June 2012 23:20, James Zern <jzern at google.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> It was attached to the mail thread, but has been pulled into the main
>> repository, so a git pull will include it.
>>
>>
> Thanks. I have updated to latest from git but I now have an encoding
> latency of around 24 frames.  I am capturing a live stream at around 7 FPS
> so the latency on my 'live' stream is now around 4 seconds.  I haven't
> changed any of the codec options from before the update to the latest on
> git.
>
> How can I lower the encoding frame latency?
>
Set rc_lookahead to 0, it's probably picking up a default that only
makes sense for offline encoding.