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Re:We built a video conferencing app using JavaScript in hours by XCSme on Friday September 04, 2020 @09:16AM (#24374637)
> central server scales linearly

Assuming that the server combines all the incoming streams into a single output stream, otherwise it still has to broadcast N-1 streams to each of the N users.

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Re:We built a video conferencing app using JavaScript in hours by i-am-curious on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:56PM (#24379284)
But why would you not combine them? In fact, I can easily see people being lazy and combining just on N sized stream to reduce server overhead especially if there is compression on top.
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