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I just found "multicat" may be sufficient for my needs. But as far as I can
tell (since there is no software API) for switching the camera this would
mean to kill a running multicat process and to create a new one for the new
camera. This would not be very elegant.

Hi, I'm using vlc/vlm as streaming server. Vlc/vlm introduces some latency of approximately 1 to 1.5 seconds. Do you have a hint how to reduce this latency? In more detail: I have several IP cameras and one decoder with an attached monitor. A java application controls which of the IP cameras is disp...