On Monday, July 25, 2011, כרמל מגן <<a href="mailto:carmel.work@gmail.com">carmel.work@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I have investigated the matter some more, and it seems that the delay is exatcly 2 frames (its 80 ms when I use PAL 25 fps video and 66 ms when I use NTSC 30 fps video). Furthermore, it appears when sending frames 1,2,3 av_read_frame does not return with frame 1 before I start sending frame 3. Does anybody have an idea why this might happen and how I can prevent it?<br>
> Thanks<br>> Carmel<br><br>The stream has a setting of max b-frames. If you can control your source, simply set th his parameter to 0. Otherwise, you can work around the delay produced by libav, but when the b-frame actually arrives, you will have to wait, anyway. The behavior of libav is tuned to provide smooth playback with constant delay.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Alex<br><br>> 2011/7/19 כרמל מגן <<a href="mailto:carmel.work@gmail.com">carmel.work@gmail.com</a>><br>>><br>>> Hello<br>>> I have been integrating mpeg2 transport stream support into an application I'm developing using libavformat.<br>
>> After successfully transmitting my video (h.264 frames encoded by the calling application) and receiving it, I did some latency testing. <br>>> To my surprise, I calculated 80 ms between the time that I finished sending the frame in one process (av_write_frame returns) until I finish receiving it in the second process (av_read_frame returns and the packet contains the same frame).<br>
>> To identify the frame I used the pts field of the packet. (i.e I printed the time when sending together with the pts of the frame, and then the time of receiving together with the pts of the frame, and then calculated the difference).<br>
>> This was tested using multicast transmission between 2 processes on the same computer (on two different machines sitting on different networks) so I don't believe network latency can account for it.<br>>> Can anybody explain what might be taking all that time and how I can reduce it? My application demands very low latency.<br>
>> Thanks<br>>> Carmel