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Stream Live Event has a 50 second delay
I see roughly 65 seconds of delay. If I stream thru Azure Media Services directly, that drops to roughly 40 seconds. I agree, its way too long. I'd love a low latency option similar to YouTube.
-Loren
We are also seeing this in Australia (If that matters) And again we are wanting to move our meetings to this platform from Zoom however the Delay makes it impossible to engage remote people is live conversations via the chat functions.
Even Youtube is < 5 seconds delay.
That's a bummer, but thanks for correcting me. I was hoping that this would lower the latency. I guess the recent update for Azure CDN is for the rest of the office suite then. Hope one day this will be fixed.
Well according to this article, Live Events are using Azure CDN's. On-demand content does not yet.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/network-overview#cdn-used-for-video-playback
"Live events from Stream and External app or device live events from Yammer/Teams will automatically use Azure CDN."
So not sure why their latency is worse than YouTube. I haven't tested all 3 flavors on YouTube but am assuming that the ultra-low latency setting lowers the buffer time at the cost of quality, while normal adds to it to ensure high quality delivery?
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7444635?hl=en
There's no solution other than working around the delay for now. They did make an announcement that they were going to switch to the Azure CDN soon, but no mention if that would help the issue.
