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Low-Latency Live Streaming for your Desktop using ffmpeg and netcat:

Preamble:

In this post I will explore how to stream a video and audio capture from one computer to another using ffmpeg and netcat, with a latency below 100ms, which is good enough for presentations and general purpose remote display tasks on a local network.

The problem:

Streaming low-latency live content is quite hard, because most software-based video codecs are designed to achieve the best compression and not best latency. This makes sense, because most movies are encoded once and decoded often, so it is a good trade-off to use more time for the encoding than the decoding.

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	import java.util.Iterator;
	import java.util.Map;
	import java.util.UUID;
	import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;

	import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
	import javax.annotation.Nullable;

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	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>Page Title</title>
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	<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/reset/reset.css">
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