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WebRTC: Control Playout Delay

Discussion in 'Unity Render Streaming' started by JoseDuSv, May 23, 2022.

  1. JoseDuSv

    JoseDuSv

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    Hello, we are using Unity WebRTC package to broadcast and receive video stream (without sound) between Unity apps and low latency is quite crucial for us.

    Is there any way we can set the Playout Delay WebRTC parameter to 0 to ideally play the frame as soon as possible in the receiver app?
     
    JoseDuSv, May 23, 2022
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  2. kazuki_unity729

    kazuki_unity729

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    I have not heard Playout Delay. It looks interesting. We don't support the feature but I would add it into the schedule if it is important.
     
    kazuki_unity729, May 24, 2022
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  3. JoseDuSv

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    Thanks for the clarification that it's not currently supported. As it's mentioned at the bottom of the documentation, being able to set some lower value can be handy for some scenarios. For example like our case, when low latency is more crucial than possible increased number of dropped frames.
     
    JoseDuSv, May 30, 2022
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  4. kazuki_unity729

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    Thank you for your situation.

    Playout delay has not been standlize by W3C yet.
    https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-pc/issues/2213

    Maybe almost browsers don't support the feature. We need to check that many developers keep to support the feature for long term.
     
    kazuki_unity729, May 31, 2022
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  5. JesperSmith

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    I noticed Unity adds about 100ms delay over what I see in chrome/firefox (rough estimate with same stream, two connections, displaying timestamps in the video and making a screenshot).

    Is there any way to control playback delay if there is no audio?
     
    JesperSmith, Aug 3, 2022
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  6. kazuki_unity729

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    We are making the new version of Unity Render Streaming which contains availability of configuring of video streaming.
     
    kazuki_unity729, Aug 9, 2022
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  7. JesperSmith

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    Will this also be available int he raw webrtc package? We do not use render streaming, we're piping camera images direclty into Unity for a mixed reality application
     
    JesperSmith, Aug 11, 2022
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  8. kazuki_unity729

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    kazuki_unity729, Aug 22, 2022
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  9. billwenchao

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    Interested in this feature too
     
    billwenchao, Oct 19, 2022
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