~0.5 s audio delay with Steam Link on Fire TV Cube

[MadManniMan]

After finally buying a wireless XBox controller I sideloaded Steam Link (1.2.0) on our Fire TV Cube.

Although video has little to no noticable lag, audio is very much behind.

Input latency isn't a problem as well. I can use the XBox controller connected to the Fire TV Cube 2 rooms away next to my streaming host PC and receive no noticable lag ...

... only audio has about half a second delay on the client TV.

Any ideas?

[_I_]

sound travels at around 700mph, it will be delayed if its coming from across a room or two

or it may be due to using steam internet relays instead of direct connection

make sure windows network is set to private
if using wifi, make sure the routers wifi isolation is disabled
and steam -> settings -> remote play -> allow direct = my/auto/all, not disabled
and any vpn is also disabled
any of those will force remote play to use internet relays
host - isp - steam relay - isp -client

could be wifi issues, ping the router and link ip from host to see how much network delay there is between them

link should only be about 20-30ms behind the host, a tiny delay or echo if you stand between the host and client when both are playing sound

[MadManniMan]

I just won't comment that notion of the speed of sound, as it is obvious, that I meant the sound from the TV's speakers ...

As I said: The video signal has perfectly fine low latency, but the sound is asynchronous - and has the delay I was talking about.

Something weird and lag inducing is happening with the sound encoding, sending and decoding, what does not occur regarding the video.

[_I_]

check the streaming log, or enable stats to see how far it is behind from the host

..\steam\logs\streaming_log.txt

or the delay may be from the tv itself
check its menus, some older ones have audio sync delay settings
and make sure its in game mode if it has the option