Developer Creates PyroWave, a Low-Latency Video Codec for Game Streaming
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Summary
The article discusses the development of PyroWave, a custom-designed, ultra-low-latency video codec for game streaming. It emphasizes the importance of minimizing latency in streaming gameplay and compares PyroWave to existing codecs like H.264, HEVC, and AV1. The author highlights the technical challenges and optimizations required to achieve sub-20 ms latency.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledStreaming gameplay from one machine to another over a network is a reasonably popular use case these days.
Every millisecond counts here. We need to minimize latency as much as possible.
Modern video codecs like H.264, HEVC, or AV1 are often used, but PyroWave aims to outperform them in latency.
The goal is to achieve all of this in roughly ~20 ms.
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