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can anyone suggest what's the best video and audio codec for streaming in HTTP or UDP? best means the fastest and most efficient.

for MPEG-TS, i've been using MJPEG and MP4a.

I am trying to reduce the delay of my webcam streaming. One solution I found from the forum is to reduce some parameters in the Preferences menu. In MPEG TS, PCR, the default is 70. I tried to reduce it down to 1. Well, it's ok. But when I checked the Debug messages, I got this: mux_ts error: invali...

here's my two cents to this:

stream out each of your webcams to particular ports in the server using unicast in vlc.

for each port in the server, you put vlc to listen and stream out the data using http.

then the clients (i.e. media player, browser) open the URL. then you're done.

Recently, I setup a video chat using vlc. I got an average of 3 to 5 seconds delay from a remote client. Is this the fastest speed that I can get? I am trying to emulate the speed when using x-box video chat which has a delay of around less than 1 to 2 seconds. Is this achievable using vlc? Thanks, ...

Hello. :D Basically, here's the setup: a remote server and a client behind a firewall. The client will be the source of the stream that the server will stream out. I can actually do this right now but I have to tweak my router's configuration and "bind" a specific port to my computer. But ...