[rtcweb] Status of realtime/live streaming to large audiences
Basil Mohamed Gohar <basilgohar@librevideo.org> Thu, 15 August 2013 15:11 UTC
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Subject: [rtcweb] Status of realtime/live streaming to large audiences
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This question may be naïve relative to others' knowledge to how rtcweb is intended to work, but I would like to bring up the issue so that a discussion exists on this list exists that unambiguously addresses the question, and can be referred to at a later date when the topic comes-up elsewhere. My apologies if this, too, has already been done! My question involves the usage of rtcweb in single-broadcaster/multiple listener scenario, such as streaming a real-time/live event that includes either audio or audio/video content, with a large audience. Imagine, for example, a setup that is related to distance learning, with one teacher and many students. I know that theoretically, rtcweb should support this, but I wanted to make sure that such a setup is actually explicitly allowed and even designed for, because it is a usage case that is currently unavailable to a large portion of users that would like to use a free software-only solution. The previous best case was Icecast, but that is not meant for low-latency streaming by design. rtcweb, I understand, is exactly for that. With that out of the way, I am also interested in knowing what solution implementing rtcweb already exist that can manage and/or handle this usage scenario (one broadcaster, many listeners). The previous solutions seem to use almost exclusively a Flash client using rtsp-based solution. The quality is variable and late packets are usually dropped so as to ensure the user is only seeing real-time data, even at degraded quality momentarily. I am interested in further discussion on this topic, so I welcome any insight anyone may have into using rtcweb in this manner. Thanks for indulging me! -- Libre Video http://librevideo.org
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