How to stream media using WebRTC and FFmpeg, and why it's a bad idea

Re:How to stream media using WebRTC and FFmpeg, and why it's... by kuter on Saturday January 30, 2021 @02:21PM (#25972055)

For the purpose of one to many type of live streaming you would probably want to use HLS.

Twitch uses it's own transcoding system. Here is a interesting read from their engineering blog [0]

[0] https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2017/10/10/live-video-transmuxing-...

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Re:How to stream media using WebRTC and FFmpeg, and why it's... by Feoj on Saturday January 30, 2021 @03:41PM (#25972793)

If you want to acheive something approaching the latency advantages of WebRTC with HLS its well worth checking out the low latency HLS work by Apple and the wider video-dev community.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/http_live_streamin... https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis-08

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