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My ancient latency claims of at most ~200ms (in practice ~100ms) are based around this test:

https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime

Yes. Me clicking the mouse, the software transmitting the mouse click to a datacenter, software rendering the web browser using AVX2, software encoding the stream, sending it to the local browser and decoding it on the screen, shining photons in my eyes, me clicking the button a second time (which also needs to be transmitted to the datacenter), gets me around ~400ms over WebRTC on the reaction time benchmark vs ~200ms on the local computer. I'm not even trying. It's a janky as hell solution that is about to fall apart the moment you look at it funny.

Also, I hate ffmpeg for streams that last longer than a day. The latency creep of streams lasting weeks is horrible.



I've had streams lasting years without any latency creep using professional encoders




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