Ask HN: How to convert a WebRTC stream to RTMP?

Posted by dardien on Friday October 09, 2015 @11:00AM
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Hello,

We are developing a streaming web application that needs to broadcast a WebRTC stream to ~5K people.

But we have found that WebRTC has a theoretical limitation of 1000 users per stream. So, alone it will not work for our purpose.

We can either: A) Implement a solution that can increase WebRTC's number of viewers limitation. Do you know any solution for this? B) Use a transcoder to transcode WebRTC to RTMP, and then use a service such as UStream to broadcast to the audience. Do you know any WebRTC to RTMP transcoder service?

Thanks

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Re:Ask HN: How to convert a WebRTC stream to RTMP? by arnaudbud on Friday October 09, 2015 @03:18PM (#10362629)

Hi,

The solution really depends on the details of your use case and the acceptable delay it would require. You can go for a P2P mesh topology, or you can just use streaming media servers in the backend ; in that case you will use WebRTC from your web app to the server, then the server route/transcode/optimize the distribution of the stream to the clients.

A few resources: - https://tokbox.com/platform/beta-programs/ - http://www.streamroot.io - https://www.peer5.com - https://webtorrent.io - http://www.dialogic.com/en/landing/webrtc.aspx - https://jitsi.org/Projects/JitsiVideobridgePerformance

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