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WebRTC for the Curious
> despite WebRTC mostly being about client/client communication
This is actually kind of a misconception, though it’s an understandable one given that WebRTC is almost always pitched as a peer-to-peer protocol.
In practice, most people using WebRTC for video are sending their video to a server, not directly to another client. It’s pretty safe to assume that most people who use your app are going to need TURN, and at that point, you’re not really doing peer-to-peer at all, so you might as well just have your browser-based app talk to a server that’s pretending to be another browser.
These servers (called Selective Forwarding Units or SFUs) can operate like a TURN server in the case of a one-on-one call, but they can also multiplex everyone’s feeds in the case of a larger conference (peer-to-peer 5 person calls would require each participant to send 4 copies of their video) and often have extra features like the ability to record calls, transcode streams or convert to other protocols.
The one I’ve used a lot is called Janus[0], it’s open source and has good docs, I recommend people check it out if they’re interested in getting deeper into WebRTC or other video streaming tech.
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OpenTalk meeting software with Rust back-end open-sourced under EUPL
OpenTalk is a young project for creating online meeting software similar to Jitsi or BigBlueButton. It is a completely new development, and while it is not a fork of an existing open-source project, it integrates with other projects such as the Janus WebRTC server, Redis for volatile state, RabbitMQ for communication between server instances, and PostreSQL for persistent state.
- Jitsi: More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing
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What are good self-hosted WebRTC video solutions today?
I've been looking into Janus WebRTC Server due to the ability for Uv4L to join Janus rooms (I'm building a RaspberyyPi doorbell)
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Looking for self hosted screen sharing/streaming solution
A related answer to the above is to check out Janus. It's a general purpose WebRTC server that has RTMP and FTL ingest support. I think it's also batteries not included, but I think it's what Glimesh is based on.
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Low-latency audio streaming (local network)
I've been using Janus gateway for similar. Pretty easy to setup.
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Live video calling - the Dyte way
A number of open-source projects also exist, which give developers a great head start if they're looking to build their own infrastructure - the most popular of these include Jitsi, Mediasoup, Janus, and Pion. These projects provide a layer of abstraction and expose a number of helper functions to perform various tasks, such as creating transports, etc. They have helpful guides on how to get started, but you would still face the aforementioned issues regarding scaling, resources, etc.
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Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
Yes, there are many self-hosted options out there. https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway works well for multi-party video with up to about 15 users in a room assuming everyone has a reasonably reliable connection.
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WebRTC over Asp.Net Core - Any examples?
- Janus (C / C++)
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Building a customer support solution focused on video calls
You can also take a look at https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway which can help you implement the video call part (as well as more traditional rtc scenario)
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Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue
> Tell me another platform that is free, has realtime chat, voice and video, has stable service, allows sharing images and other media, with good ownership management... and is open source.
Mattermost: https://mattermost.com/
Rocket.Chat: https://www.rocket.chat/
Nextcloud Talk: https://nextcloud.com/talk/
Self hosting and some assembly required. I've run all of them on cheap VPSes to explore a Slack/Discord replacement, neither was mindblowing but all of them seemed okay (Nextcloud's offering was rather barebones, though).
Audio and video support varies because getting those right is challenging, at best you'd just integrate with something like Jitsi, that one's actually pretty good for meetings and such: https://jitsi.org/ and has a cloud version too: https://meet.jit.si/ (yet people still go for Zoom and it's odd UI/UX choices)
I actually rather liked forums back in the day, but I guess nobody will be setting up that many phpBB instances in the current year, though projects like Discourse also seem promising: https://www.discourse.org/
I don't think many people at all will be leaving Discord, due to how entrenched the platform is (network effect): if you want people to help you with what you're working on, you go where they are, not vice versa.
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How to copy a file between devices?
To add to this, it's reasonably easy to run, and has many different plugins, from a calendar and contacts list, to an online document editor (like Google Docs, except it can be pretty slow and/or resource intensive: https://nextcloud.com/office/), to a simple clone of Slack (https://nextcloud.com/talk/), a mail client (https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/mail) and other things.
That said, I've had updates (across major versions) break things on multiple occasions, one out of two servers running the exact same version has random crashes and in addition to that the file locking by default (if enabled, but not using Redis: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/config...) has broken and prevents me from deleting a file that just sits there and takes up a few GB of space. Oh and their Android app fails to upload files if I use the share option, instead of the file picker from within the app.
On the other hand, sure beats storing data on third party clouds and is free, so I'll still keep using it.
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Remember Microsoft Small Business Server? It was a full suite of tools for a small office. Is there an open source alternative?
Internal chat/communication
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Nextcloud Talk (version 15.0.3): Have private video calls and chat using your own server.
- Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?
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What are good self-hosted WebRTC video solutions today?
Nextcloud Talk
- Best alternative for Zoom / MS teams for video calls?
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Best way to host groups calls/chats for family members?
Nextcloud with the Talk extension can do exactly what you are looking for! https://nextcloud.com/talk/
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Nextcloud Talk (version 14.1.0): Have private video calls and chat using your own server.
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Zulip – Threaded real-time chat for distributed teams
Both of those also seemed serviceable, decently familiar and usable. I guess even Nextcloud Talk could work if that suits your environment better https://nextcloud.com/talk/ though personally it felt a little more barebones in comparison.
Has anyone extensively used any of them and can share what details/differences jumped out at them? Admittedly, i probably missed most of those myself and just saw them as similar, self-hostable chat solutions.
What are some alternatives?
Telegram-bot-Sms-Call-bomber - Telegram bot for Sms/Call flood
mediasoup - Cutting Edge WebRTC Video Conferencing
jitsi - Jitsi is an audio/video and chat communicator that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, IRC and many other useful features.
Pion WebRTC - Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API
aiortc - WebRTC and ORTC implementation for Python using asyncio
libdatachannel - C/C++ WebRTC network library featuring Data Channels, Media Transport, and WebSockets
media-server-node - WebRTC Media Server for Node.js
simple-peer - 📡 Simple WebRTC video, voice, and data channels
galene - The Galène videoconference server
RubixML - A high-level machine learning and deep learning library for the PHP language.
kms-core - [ARCHIVED] Contents migrated to monorepo: https://github.com/Kurento/kurento
SIPSorcery - A WebRTC, SIP and VoIP library for C# and .NET. Designed for real-time communications apps.