# RTMP playback delay on vlc increases overtime

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-playback-delay-on-vlc-increases-overtime/49636>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [September 7, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-playback-delay-on-vlc-increases-overtime/49636 "2017-09-07T02:05:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ahmed\_alaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@ahmed\_alaa](https://community.wowza.com/u/ahmed_alaa)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-playback-delay-on-vlc-increases-overtime/49636/1 "2017-09-07T02:05:43Z")

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please help …

i’m trying wowza to send a RTSP stream from an android device to other LAN clients

i’m using VLC to play the RTMP stream as a client

when starting a playback … the delay is \< 1 second and that’s really really great

but overtime the delay keeps increasing … sometimes when i leave the streaming ON … for about an hour or more …  
the delay reaches 5-7 seconds !!!

but when i stop the VLC playback and start it immediately the delay return back to it’s first state (\< 1 second)

i almost tried everything

- i tried setting cache to low value in VLC but that decreases the instant delay … not that accumulating dela

- i tried to decrease the bitrate of encoding … i even set it to 10 kbps !!!  
i knew that the quality would get so bad but i wanted to test the theory that it’s just a  
bitrate vs bandwidth issue … also didn’t work … it’s barely the same

- i tried setting the stream type to (live-lowlatency) in the conf of live application (application.xml)

- i tried a tip that was mentioned before in another question … by adding those properties in the xml too

instantOn true Boolean

instantOnBufferTime 3000 Integer

but all leads to the same issue … i can’t get rid of that accumulating delay please if anyone can help

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**Author:** ![Peerasan\_Buranasanti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/peerasan_buranasanti/32/2017_2.png) [@Peerasan\_Buranasanti](https://community.wowza.com/u/Peerasan_Buranasanti)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-playback-delay-on-vlc-increases-overtime/49636/2 "2017-09-10T02:20:20Z")

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try to setup buffer = 0

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**Author:** ![Puneet\_Jhingan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Puneet\_Jhingan](https://community.wowza.com/u/Puneet_Jhingan)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/rtmp-playback-delay-on-vlc-increases-overtime/49636/3 "2018-09-19T10:54:20Z")

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Ahmed, did you get any solution yet? I am also interested in this issue.