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> I could be completely wrong but my gut is telling me that MPEG1 is basically independent, slightly-modified JPEG frames.

Not that simple, but not that far off.

Basically MPEG1 has key-frames (“JPEG” frames) and (forward) delta-frames (diffs).

From my understanding H264 has many improvements, including reverse delta-frames.

My guess is that disabling those in the encoder will improve real-time capabilities.

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Ah gotcha, I think I was mixing up MPEG1 and MJPEG in my head.

I didn't realize that you could disable those features in the encoder. I'll have to look into x264 tunables that lower latency. Might be interesting.

Bingo, that's one of the tuning you can use for real-time communication. There's a lot of ways to tune an encoder, and getting optimal setting for each use case is always tricky.

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