Delay time increased on HLS Streaming

Delay time increased on HLS Streaming

Support ForumCategory: Usage and FeaturesDelay time increased on HLS Streaming
Trang asked 10 years ago
We use HLS streaming for live video, we would like to decrease delay time to real time, so we choose chunkLength=2s in command to EvoStream.
Results : As long as it’s displaying stream video, it delays more.
For example, when it starts display, it delays 8s. After a while, it delays 14s -> 18s -> 26s -> 35s -> 55s … then the HLS player skip frames and back to delay 8s -> 14s -> … Could you help to check this issue more ?
I guess the issue comes from playlist.m3u8 ? It looks like 2 seconds in real video that will be displayed/created in ~ 3 seconds of TS files. So as long as it’s displaying stream video, the difference is longer. This also happen for different chunkLength 10s, 6s, 4s. We always set I-Frame Interval = 1s. More details about content of m3u8 file : Case 1 : chunkLength=2 chunkOnIDR=1 #EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE:NO
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:4
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:557
#EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME:2016-10-26T12:00:01.996+00:00
#EXTINF:3.167,
segment_1477481591484_557.ts
#EXTINF:3.050,
segment_1477481591484_558.ts
#EXTINF:3.117,
segment_1477481591484_559.ts
#EXTINF:2.717,
segment_1477481591484_560.ts
#EXTINF:3.050,
segment_1477481591484_561.ts
#EXTINF:2.667,
segment_1477481591484_562.ts
#EXTINF:3.050,
segment_1477481591484_563.ts
#EXTINF:2.800,
segment_1477481591484_564.ts
#EXTINF:3.017,
segment_1477481591484_565.ts
#EXTINF:2.800,
segment_1477481591484_566.ts Case 2 : chunkLength=2 chunkOnIDR=0 #EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:3
#EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE:NO
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:3
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:486
#EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME:2016-10-27T04:37:36.584+00:00
#EXTINF:2.000,
segment_1477542075837_486.ts
#EXTINF:2.000,
segment_1477542075837_487.ts
#EXTINF:2.000,
segment_1477542075837_488.ts
#EXTINF:2.000,
segment_1477542075837_489.ts
#EXTINF:2.100,
segment_1477542075837_490.ts
#EXTINF:2.000,
segment_1477542075837_491.ts
#EXTINF:2.000,
segment_1477542075837_492.ts
#EXTINF:2.000,
segment_1477542075837_493.ts
#EXTINF:2.000,
segment_1477542075837_494.ts
#EXTINF:1.800,
segment_1477542075837_495.ts
#EXT-X-ENDLIST



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