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Re:Show HN: WebRTC implementation for Python using Asyncio by Immortalin on Monday October 08, 2018 @02:03PM (#18169744)
If you are trying to build e.g. Twitch or Discord, you want to have a server backend to handle processing, hide user IPs from each other for privacy etc. (the term you are looking for is single forwarding unit). If you just want to get something up quickly, I recommend OpenVidu.
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Re:Show HN: WebRTC implementation for Python using Asyncio by pmalynin on Monday October 08, 2018 @03:33PM (#18170582)
If you're hiding everything behind a server, couldn't you just use WebSockets? I thought the whole appeal of WebRTC is the whole peer to peer setup.
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Re:Show HN: WebRTC implementation for Python using Asyncio by gfodor on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:08PM (#18170862)
WebRTC provides audio and video streaming, as well as unreliable/unordered data transport through data channels, which is really great for games.
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Re:Show HN: WebRTC implementation for Python using Asyncio by plq on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:10PM (#18170873)
You can't use UDP with web sockets.
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