[bob1029]

It's funny you mention MPEG1. That's where my journey with all of this began. For MPEG1 testing I was just piping my raw bitmap data to FFMPEG and piping the result to the client browser.

I was never satisfied with the lower latency bound for that approach and felt like I had to keep pushing into latency territory that was lower than my frame time.

That said, MPEG1 was probably the simplest way to get nearly-ideal latency conditions for an interframe approach.