What can I do to make connecting and start playing faster

[nathvela]

The average time it takes from page load to seeing a picture in the video is 7 seconds on my end. How can I lessen this? Is there a setting to fine tune the create session pang play video process so it loads faster?

 

[Max]

Good day.
According to you previous posts, you're publishsing stream from RTMP encoder, In this case, you should set interval for keyframes to be sent more often. For example, in OBS settings:

You can also switch to TCP transport for WebRTC playback to reduce packet loss

session.createStream({
    name: streamName,
    display: remoteVideo,
    transport: "TCP"
}).on(STREAM_STATUS.PENDING, function (stream) {
...
}).play();

Additionally, please check if publisher and player channel bandwidth is enough for stream reolution and bitrate (using iperf for example as described here)

 

[nathvela]

hello,

Thank you for your reply.

Just to clarify, I am publishing using webrtc using your websdk in this case. We are experimenting on different scenarios. But this one case if using webrtc not rtmp.


Nat

 

[Max]

Just to clarify, I am publishing using webrtc using your websdk in this case.

For futher questions, please clarify your case when starting a new forum thread.
While publishing WebRTC from browser, there's no settings in browser to change the keyframe interval. This can be done on server side only with the following parameter in flashphoner.properties file

periodic_fir_request=true

In this case, server will request keyframe from browser every 5 seconds (by default), so pause between page load and picture displaying will be no more than 5 seconds. To reduce this interval, use the following parameter

periodic_fir_request_interval=3000

In this case, keyframe interval will be 3 seconds.