# WebRTC latency limit

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/webrtc-latency-limit/55174>\
**Category:** Wowza Video (Formerly Streaming Cloud)\
**Tags:** webrtc, low-latency\
**Created:** [May 14, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/webrtc-latency-limit/55174 "2020-05-14T14:16:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Bohdan\_Klochko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Bohdan\_Klochko](https://community.wowza.com/u/Bohdan_Klochko)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/webrtc-latency-limit/55174/1 "2020-05-14T14:16:22Z")

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What is the lowest latency that Wowza Streaming Cloud can provide for WebRTC stream? As I know, when you check reduced latency checkbox or set low\_latency to true with REST API, it will set the latency to 5-6 seconds, but is there a way to make it 1-2 seconds?

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**Author:** ![Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/rose_power-wowza_com/32/431_2.png) [@Rose\_Power-Wowza\_Com](https://community.wowza.com/u/Rose_Power-Wowza_Com)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/webrtc-latency-limit/55174/2 "2020-05-14T15:39:54Z")

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Great question @Bohdan Klochko! The answer is no you cannot get it to 1 -2 seconds because Wowza Cloud is converting the WebRTC to HLS and for HLS playback, it requires at least 3 segments for playback. We can reduce each video chunk or segment to 2 seconds, but again since a player needs 3 segments, that still gives you about 6 seconds of latency.

With Wowza Streaming Engine, we support WebRTC ingest and WebRTC playback and that is where you’ll see sub-one second latency.

But, in Streaming Cloud, we ingest WebRTC and tranxmux it to HLS so you can scale and deliver your stream to a greater audience.

Cloud does not yet offer WebRTC playback- just the ingest.

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**Author:** ![Taylor\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Taylor\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Taylor_Johnson)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/webrtc-latency-limit/55174/3 "2020-09-13T18:24:35Z")

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Hi,

We have implemented webRTC ingest and webRTC player using – [https://github.com/WowzaMediaSystems/webrtc-examples](https://github.com/WowzaMediaSystems/webrtc-examples) on wowza cloud. The latency we see is 5-6 seconds. Is this expected? (stream id: m3j0dfpv)

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**Author:** ![Taylor\_Johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Taylor\_Johnson](https://community.wowza.com/u/Taylor_Johnson)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/webrtc-latency-limit/55174/4 "2020-09-14T07:06:52Z")

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Hi,

We have implemented webRTC ingest and webRTC player using – [https://github.com/WowzaMediaSystems/webrtc-examples](https://github.com/WowzaMediaSystems/webrtc-examples) on wowza cloud. The latency we see is 5-6 seconds. Is this expected? (stream id: m3j0dfpv)