title: Low-latency broadcast video with minimal client installation issues
body: <p>I am creating an application for remote-auctioneering a live auction.  Key to the application is that there is minimal latency between the actual sale and the end-viewers.  I understand that there are alot of factors in latency - but buffering needs to not be one of them.  The  client needs to not buffer at all.  Here are the priorities for what we need:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Low-latency (less than 2 seconds) from the point of recording to the end-viewer</li>
  <li>web-based client that requires as little installation as possible.  This means if it runs on a solution most people have installed (flash, java) that is great.  Custom active-x (ie) and plugins (firefox) are less desirable.  I know that amongst streaming clients quicktime and wmp both do not work well with the idea of low-latency or zero buffering.</li>
  <li>A server solution for receiving a single stream and broadcasting it out.  The most important thing about the server is that it works with item 2.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Here are some things we have tried or looked at.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Adobe flash media server with a flash client - Adobe media server seems to have little support for low-latency streams.  Something over UDP would be great.</li>
  <li>Wowza media server with a flash client - We actually tested this and found that the latency was pretty low.  However, we did see latency grow with poor bandwidth, etc.  Instead of seeing the latency grow, I would prefer the client to drop frames to keep things current.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any other suggestions?</p>