live stream through media server is pretty delayed, how can i reduce it?

hey,
i have a scenario, where live stream is little more engaging - the presenter would run surveys along with the live camera feed or pop up quizes, sort of thing. and this ofcourse needs to be very timely (perhaps not more than 2-3 seconds delayed). To do all that i have used Media Encoder SDK 9 to encode the stream from camera, add the forms/quizes instructions and push them out to my custom player (on silverlight) through Media Server 08.

But now when i run it, i experience a delay over the LAN of like 15-20 seconds which is really long. comparing this delay with other sites like mogulus.com, this looks fairly huge and makes the whole idea impractical. This delay is when i have already done following

- have setup encoder profile to just do 1 second buffer
- have disabled buffering on the publishing point on media server
- have set buffering time in the silverlight medialpayer to just 1 second

as i said, somehow still getting that 15-20 seconds delay. To see if it's taking longer during the encode i had my encoding application show me the PostView from my video source, directly (rather than through stream server), which is almost instantaneous. I really need help on this. Following is some related information

My encoding profile specs are

Frame size = 320 x 240
FPS = 20
Total Bit rate = 145kbps approx (100 video + 32 audio + 4 script + 8 overhead)
Video Codec = WMV 9
Audio Codec = WMA 9.2

The encoding machine is a 2.0 duo core 64 bit with 3 GB RAM laptop. Stream server is a quad core 2.8 ghz 64 bit with 4 GB RAM.

Best regards,
Farooq Khan

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