Windows Media doesn seem to be NetMeeting – how can I reduce latency?
It definitely is not NetMeeting and isn’t really meant for perfectly live broadcasts. This article and this article address latency and how to reduce it. Rob’s additional Steps to Reduce Latency are: • On the server publishing point, go into the Properties tab and select Networking. Disable the buffering. • On the player, you can reduce the buffering time from the default. This setting is in Tools->Options->Performance->Network buffering for the 9 series player. Try setting this to a lower value. • On the encoder, make sure that your “preroll” setting (sometimes referred to as the “Buffer window”) is set as low as you can. Regardless of how low you set the networking buffer in the player it will always buffer at least the “preroll” amount + 2 seconds (or the buffer setting, whichever is greater). Per Rob, “Note that making these adjustments, while lowering the end to end latency can also greatly lower playback quality and performance.” In general, you will get the smallest latency usin
