VLC as a RTP client with low latency

[robosara]

Hi all,

I am using VLC as a RTP/H264 client.
I would like to reduce observed latency, some skips time to time are not a problem.
I have tried with the :file-caching parameter, but I am not sure I am using the proper method.

My current command line is : vlc.exe --no-overlay toto.sdp :file-caching=100
If I try vlc.exe --no-overlay toto.sdp :file-caching=50, video is frozen.

What is the right way to reduce all caching to the minimum .

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

--no-overlay does not help with latency. And you should probably use --rtsp-caching instead of file-caching.

[robosara]

--no-overlay does not help with latency. And you should probably use --rtsp-caching instead of file-caching.

Sorry, I have forgotten to remove overlay parameter.

--rtsp-caching does not seem to change something while file-caching reduce a little bit buffering.. Strange...

[ipacker]

I have experienced the same problem.

If playing a stream initiated by an SDP file VLC does not respect the combo of --clock-jitter=0 and --rtsp-caching=200 or --file-caching=200

If starting the same exact stream but the SDP comes via an RTSP session VLC respects them both.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

That particular problem was fixed 7 months ago in VLC 1.2...