Ask HN: What's preventing us from achieving seamless video communication?

Re:Ask HN: What's preventing us from achieving seamless vide... by rixed on Sunday May 12, 2019 @08:57AM (#19891598)

Since you seems to be very familiar with that topic, do you know if most popular video chat applications stream voice and video directly between peer, or do they have to go through some central server? And if so, how much latency does that cost us?

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Re:Ask HN: What's preventing us from achieving seamless vide... by rlyshw on Sunday May 12, 2019 @09:10AM (#19891650)

WebRTC is direct peer to peer. There’s a reliance on a STUN/TURN server to provide signaling for things like NAT traversal but other than that it’s all p2p.

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Re:Ask HN: What's preventing us from achieving seamless vide... by tehlike on Sunday May 12, 2019 @09:43AM (#19891845)

The answer might be a mix, if video conference involves more than trivial amount of participants.

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