YouTube Live Stream Issues

[dosxuk]

• Give up worrying about latency - your staff at home don't (shouldn't!) care if the video they are seeing is delayed by 30s from real life. Once you enable low-latency mode on streaming stuff you're telling everything that you're less worried about a stable/reliable stream than you are about getting it to your audience as quickly as possible.
   
  
• Use OBS rather than the web browser streaming options - they're designed for quickly throwing something together and for mobile phone pop-up streams - not 24/hour continuous feeds.
  

[abbotsmike]

• Give up worrying about latency - your staff at home don't (shouldn't!) care if the video they are seeing is delayed by 30s from real life. Once you enable low-latency mode on streaming stuff you're telling everything that you're less worried about a stable/reliable stream than you are about getting it to your audience as quickly as possible.
• Use OBS rather than the web browser streaming options - they're designed for quickly throwing something together and for mobile phone pop-up streams - not 24/hour continuous feeds.

 

Interestingly, the low and ultra low latency options used to only be available within the browser, not as an rtmp stream. I assume it was doing a webrtc session or similar.

[TomHoward]

We use low latency as RTMP from OBS - you set up the session in the browser, then use the stream key to send from OBS - low and ultra low latency seem to be available for us when scheduling the stream?

We used Normal for most everything but still find Low stable. However we are mostly running internally on a decent connection, I think the low latency buffer may cause more problems for playback buffering at the recipient end if their connection isn't amazing.

 

About the only other thing (but it doesn't look like it makes a difference) is our streams are pretty much always scheduled, not via the "Stream Now". The actual scheduling time makes no difference (it's only when it's advertised to start but you can start/stop it whenever) but it may give you more options possibly.