[Libav-user] Video latency and GOP size

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Paul Roberts <paul_e_roberts at ...> writes:

> I am encoding live frames from an IP camera to H.264 
> but have found that it takes at least as many frames 
> as the GOP size to be passed in before anything 
> comes out of the encoder.

Did you already read the following?
http://mewiki.project357.com/wiki/X264_Encoding_Suggestions#Encoder_latency

Carl Eugen