I’m new to all of this. I’ve encoded several videos using ffmpeg. I’m using a -framerate of 29.97 and a -g value of 60 which should give me a keyframe internal of 2. I’ve set up HLS in Wowza Engine Manager via SMIL files. I’ve verified that playback works great, and the various qualities are shown (1080, 720, 480, etc) and adaptive bitrate switching occurs when I use bandwidth throttling to test this. I see the .ts files coming in when I check the network console in Chrome. All good.
My only issue is that it takes about ~10 seconds for playback to begin. Is this normal, or am I doing something incorrectly? As a comparison, when loading a YouTube HD, playback starts almost immediately (I’ve also tested MPEG-DASH in Wowza and the same delay time exists with it, too). My connection is 24mbps.
Thanks for any insight!
-Brian