How to reduce broadcast latency?

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Hi @Robot,

Regardless of how small the delay can be between the streamer and the viewer, there are a variety of contributing factors to the process:

  • Delay introduced by composition software like OBS
  • The streamers encoding chain and settings
  • The geographical location of the streamer, the viewers, the ingest server, and the viewing CDN endpoint
  • The client used to view Twitch (Web, mobile, Chromecast, console, etc.) and their supported latency features.

Understanding how Twitch (and streaming services in general) work is important when considering developing games that run using these platforms. You cannot rely on latency as a factor - either in amount or in consistency (for fairness between clients).

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