# Anyway to reduce upto 5 secs latency in HLS

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/anyway-to-reduce-upto-5-secs-latency-in-hls/43043>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [May 14, 2014, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/anyway-to-reduce-upto-5-secs-latency-in-hls/43043 "2014-05-14T16:36:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![small\_erik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@small\_erik](https://community.wowza.com/u/small_erik)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/anyway-to-reduce-upto-5-secs-latency-in-hls/43043/1 "2014-05-14T16:36:52Z")

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Hi,

By using properties listed [here](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-apple-hls-packetization-cupertinostreaming%28cupertinostreaming%29) i reduced my latency from 30secs to 12 secs in HLS. But client required \<5 secs :(. Any idea/suggestion?? Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![Tim\_Dougherty](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/tim_dougherty/32/596_2.png) [@Tim\_Dougherty](https://community.wowza.com/u/Tim_Dougherty)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/anyway-to-reduce-upto-5-secs-latency-in-hls/43043/2 "2014-05-15T15:11:37Z")

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Erik,

It sounds like you’ve optimized your packetization settings, which is the best approach for Apple HLS streaming. Achieving \<5 seconds over HTTP streaming may prove a very difficult task.

-Tim