Stream: Vs ffmpeg:

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Hi,

Have a read of this for a more thorough explanation of why this is happening

I tried all the camera platforms so you don't have to

When I started with Home Assistant a couple years ago, one of the main use cases was making a nice dashboard which included my cameras. Unfortunately this simple desire has been far from easy to achieve. In my quest for something reliable and real time, I think I have now tried every option that is open to me and realized that none of them is really perfect, but I’ve learned enough that it’s at least worth sharing so that other people have some better idea of their options and which one might fi…

If you just want to view the stream RTSP2WebRTC may be for you but there are some limitations

Realtime camera streaming without any delay - WebRTC

Home Assistant custom component for viewing IP-cameras RTSP stream in real time using WebRTC technology. Why WebRTC: works in any modern browser, even on mobiles the only browser technology with minimal camera stream delays (0.5 seconds and below) works well with unstable channel does not use transcoding and does not load the CPU support camera stream with sound

Hope this helps,
Cheers