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11 months ago Not sure, but maybe the setting "Cache for streams" (under Preferences-Performance-Cache) is related and should have some effect on the delay, if you set it to lower values (e.g. 512 kB)!?
It translates to the mpv-setting "--demuxer-max-bytes=...", which can be confirmed from the MPV-log. Might be introducing some stuttering in the playback though. You can test it.
When I play a stream twice in SMPlayer (with 512kB or 2048kB Cache) and in Streamlink with your settings from above:
streamlink.exe https://www.twitch.tv/[some channel] best --player mpv --twitch-low-latency --hls-live-edge 1
, then I have a delay of ~+6s in SMPlayer/MPV compared to Streamlink/MPV [Stream: 1080p60].
Both use the same mpv.exe and with both cache settings it's the same result.
raszpl
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Just by accident I ran smplayer.exe https://www.twitch.tv/beagsandjam and discovered its working :o I think smplayer just passes url to mpv and mpv leverages ytdl. Yay! Still that gives us stream delayed by ~4 seconds.
Describe the solution you'd like streamlink has a solution for that: https://streamlink.github.io/cli.html#cmdoption-twitch-low-latency
SMPlayer\mpv>streamlink-5.5.1-2-py38-x86_64\bin\streamlink.exe https://www.twitch.tv/beagsandjam best --player mpv --twitch-low-latency --hls-live-edge 1
this actually gives you lower latency than the real twitch website in low latency mode :o No idea how this works, but would be neat if it turned out easy to implement and smplayer replicated it.