FFmpeg live streaming to ffserver delay at start

Question

I'm trying to achieve a simple camera streaming using FFMpeg and FFserver. I have two slightly different systems acting as source, both Debian OS:

the first one runs ffmpeg 3.4.8, as indicated in figure 1

First system FFMPEG version

the second one runs ffmpeg 2.8.17, as indicated in figure 2

Second system FFMPEG version

The ffmpeg command used to send the stream to to ffserver is the following, identical for both systems:

ffmpeg -re -f v4l2 -s 640x360 -thread_queue_size 20 -probesize 32 -i /dev/video0 -threads 4 -fflags nobuffer -tune zerolatency http://myserverIP:myserverPort/liveFeed.ffm

In order to see the stream result I access the live stream from a third system using openCV pointing to the server URL:

VideoCapture videoCap = new VideoCapture("http://myserverIP:myserverPort/liveFeed.flv"); 
...
videoCap.read(imageInput);

and start grabbing the incoming frames from the stream.

The wierd thing happens here:

with the first system the video stream visualized through openCV is pretty much real time, with 1-2 seconds of delay from the original source.
with the second system the video stream is affected by a variable delay which is comparable with the elapsed time between the start time of the stream source and the start time of the stream acquisition with openCV (for example: if I start the source stream at 12:00:00 and wait 30 seconds before access the stream with openCV, I have a delay of about 30 seconds shown on the third system)

The ffserver configuration is the following

HTTPBindAddress 0.0.0.0
MaxHTTPConnections 2000
MaxClients 1000
MaxBandwidth 6000
CustomLog -
#NoDaemon
<Feed liveFeed.ffm>
    File /tmp/SCT-0001_3.ffm
    FileMaxSize 5M
</Feed>
<Stream liveFeed.flv>
    Format flv
    Feed liveFeed.ffm
VideoCodec libx264
VideoFrameRate 20
VideoBitRate 200
VideoSize 640x360
AVOptionVideo preset superfast
AVOptionVideo tune zerolatency
AVOptionVideo flags +global_header

NoAudio

</Stream>
##################################################################
Special streams
##################################################################
<Stream stat.html>
    Format status
    # Only allow local people to get the status
    ACL allow localhost
    ACL allow 192.168.0.0 192.168.255.255
</Stream>
Redirect index.html to the appropriate site
<Redirect index.html>
    URL http://www.ffmpeg.org/
</Redirect>

Any help to spot the problem would be great! Thanks

FFmpeg live streaming to ffserver delay at start

Special streams

Redirect index.html to the appropriate site

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