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Server time adjustment

All the streaming functions are extremely sensitive to local server time changes because timestaps are used for:

  • setting a data packet arrival time for a publishing streams
  • audio and video synchronization in a stream
  • stream bitrate accounting
  • stream mixing
  • and so on

Therefore it is recommended to use permanent NTP time synchronization on the server where WCS is running. If this is impossible (for example, on intranet server with Standalone license), and the server time is adjusted periodically (for example, by hypervisor), WCS must be stopped when server time is changing.