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copied!<p>I am creating an application for remote-auctioneering a live auction. Key to the application is that there is minimal latency between the actual sale and the end-viewers. I understand that there are alot of factors in latency - but buffering needs to not be one of them. The client needs to not buffer at all. Here are the priorities for what we need:</p> <ol> <li>Low-latency (less than 2 seconds) from the point of recording to the end-viewer</li> <li>web-based client that requires as little installation as possible. This means if it runs on a solution most people have installed (flash, java) that is great. Custom active-x (ie) and plugins (firefox) are less desirable. I know that amongst streaming clients quicktime and wmp both do not work well with the idea of low-latency or zero buffering.</li> <li>A server solution for receiving a single stream and broadcasting it out. The most important thing about the server is that it works with item 2.</li> </ol> <p>Here are some things we have tried or looked at.</p> <ol> <li>Adobe flash media server with a flash client - Adobe media server seems to have little support for low-latency streams. Something over UDP would be great.</li> <li>Wowza media server with a flash client - We actually tested this and found that the latency was pretty low. However, we did see latency grow with poor bandwidth, etc. Instead of seeing the latency grow, I would prefer the client to drop frames to keep things current.</li> </ol> <p>Does anyone have any other suggestions?</p>

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