Delay/lag in MJPEG live stream

[diafygi]

I have a live stream coming from a media server using mjpeg. Here's the example stream address:

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http://192.168.1.25/mjpg/video.mjpg

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?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

VLC has an important http cache by default.

[diafygi]

VLC has an important http cache by default.

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

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

http-caching

[diafygi]

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!

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vlc --http-caching=0 http://192.168.1.25/mjpg/video.mjpg

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]