lowLatency's small per-part buffering window has very little tolerance
for B-frame reordering (common in typical OBS encoder presets) — a real
test stream crashed the muxer twice in ~2 minutes with "too many
reordered frames" / "unable to extract DTS", tearing down and rebuilding
HLS output each time (visible to viewers as buffering/stalls).
Standard HLS buffers a full segment before finalizing instead of
near-real-time parts, absorbing that jitter. Confirmed via a live test
stream afterward: zero muxer crashes over several minutes, vs. two in
the first two minutes before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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