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I have a live stream coming from a media server using mjpeg. Here's the example stream address: When I open the stream in Firefox (just type in the url), the stream displays with almost no delay (<20ms). However, when I open the stream in VLC, there is about a 1 second delay/lag in the stream. Is this because VLC is transcoding the stream? Is there a setting that I can use to reduce this delay?

The reason I'm not just using Firefox is because I'd like to have the stream display at fullscreen. Any ideas?

VLC has an important http cache by default.

VLC has an important http cache by default.

Ok, is there an option to reduce the http cache? I'm ok with dropped frames.

http-caching

I just wanted to follow up and confirm that I did get rid of the delay/lag in the stream by setting http-caching to zero. There is no time difference between the stream in Firefox and the stream in VLC. Thanks j-b!