quinn VS aiortc

Compare quinn vs aiortc and see what are their differences.

quinn

Async-friendly QUIC implementation in Rust (by quinn-rs)

aiortc

WebRTC and ORTC implementation for Python using asyncio (by aiortc)
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quinn aiortc
23 19
3,449 3,896
2.7% 2.0%
9.0 7.5
6 days ago 30 days ago
Rust Python
Apache License 2.0 BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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quinn

Posts with mentions or reviews of quinn. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-05.
  • Why HTTP/3 is eating the world
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Oct 2023
    Since it lives on top of UDP, I believe all you need is SOCK_DGRAM, right? The rest of QUIC can be in a userspace library ergonomically designed for your programming language e.g. https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn - and can interoperate with others who have made different choices.

    Alternately, if you need even higher performance, DPDK gives the abstractions you'd need; see e.g. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3565477.3569154 on performance characteristics.

  • Async rust – are we doing it all wrong?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023
    > Making things thread safe for runtime-agnostic utilities like WebSocket is yet another price we pay for making everything multi-threaded by default. The standard way of doing what I'm doing in my code above would be to spawn one of the loops on a separate background task, which could land on a separate thread, meaning we must do all that synchronization to manage reading and writing to a socket from different threads for no good reason.

    Why so? Libraries like quinn[1] define "no IO" crate to define runtime-agnostic protocol implementation. In this way we won't suffer by forcing ourselves using synchronization primitives.

    Also, IMO it's relatively easy to use Send-bounded future in non-Send(i.o.w. single-threaded) runtime environment, but it's almost impossible to do opposite. Ecosystem users can freely use single threaded async runtime, but ecosystem providers should not. If you want every users to only use single threaded runtime, it's a major loss for the Rust ecosystem.

    Typechecked Send/Sync bounds are one of the holy grails that Rust provides. Albeit it's overkill to use multithreaded async runtimes for most users, we should not abandon them because it opens an opportunity for high-end users who might seek Rust for their high-performance backends.

    [1]: https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn

  • quicssh-rs Rust implementation SSH over Quic proxy tool
    3 projects | /r/rust | 30 Apr 2023
    quicssh-rs is quicssh rust implementation. It is based on quinn and tokio
  • The birth of a package manager [written in Rust :)]
    2 projects | /r/rust | 17 Mar 2023
    Regarding Quinn, I had a blast this week resurrecting an old PR. Looking forward to the next!
  • Best performing quic implementation?
    4 projects | /r/rust | 5 Mar 2023
  • str0m a sans I/O WebRTC library
    3 projects | /r/rust | 18 Dec 2022
    By studying u/djcu/hachyderm.io (and others!) excellent work in Quinn, doing a sans I/O implementation of QUIC https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn we have a way forward.
  • durian - a high-level general purpose client/server networking library
    3 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 7 Dec 2022
    QUIC isn't web/wasm-compatible because of https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn/issues/1388, so durian wouldn't either since it's built on top of it.
  • FPS server with QUINN?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 29 Oct 2022
    Quinn, as in the implementation of QUIC? https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn
  • I built a Zoom clone 100% IN RUST
    12 projects | /r/rust | 24 Oct 2022
    You are right, I am planning to switch the transport to UDP + quic using the awesome QUINN library, https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn .
  • I write a secure UDP tunnel
    2 projects | /r/rust | 1 Oct 2022
    Hi, I am new to the community, I just started learning rust and created a secure UDP tunnel based on the Quinn library, thanks to Quinn, I didn't need to go into the detail of the QUIC protocol and quickly created a UDP tunnel, and thanks to the BBR congestion control algorithm it uses, the tunnel performs quite well with lousy and long fat network, I didn't do any benchmark, but it performs a lot better (higher throughput with LFN) than most of other TCP tunnel implementations I used before.

aiortc

Posts with mentions or reviews of aiortc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-19.
  • VoRS: Vo(IP) Simple Alternative to Mumble
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
  • Pure C WebRTC
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2024
    I am really excited about https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer. It has examples ready for ESP32 etc....

    When working on KVS I wasn't familiar with the embedded space at all. I saw 'heavyweight' embedded where you were running on Linux. Then you had RTOS/No OS at all. I wasn't prepared for these devices at all. If we can make WebRTC work in the embedded space I think it will really accelerate what developers are able to build!

    Remotely driven cars, security cameras, robots in hospitals that bring iPads to infectious patients etc... Creative people are building amazing things. The WebRTC/video space needs to work harder and support them :)

    -----

    I love how diverse the WebRTC space is now. Outside of this implementation you have plenty of other options!

    * https://github.com/shinyoshiaki/werift-webrtc (Typescript)

    * https://github.com/pion/webrtc (Golang)

    * https://github.com/webrtc-rs/webrtc (Rust)

    * https://github.com/algesten/str0m (Rust)

    * hhttps://github.com/sepfy/libpeer (C/Embedded)

    * https://webrtc.googlesource.com/src/ (C++)

    * https://github.com/sipsorcery-org/sipsorcery (C#)

    * https://github.com/paullouisageneau/libdatachannel (C++)

    * https://github.com/elixir-webrtc (Elixir)

    * https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc (Python)

    * GStreamer’s webrtcbin (C)

    See https://github.com/sipsorcery/webrtc-echoes for examples of some running against each other.

  • WebRTC for the Curious
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2024
  • Building WebRTC server implementation for Erlang
    6 projects | /r/WebRTC | 10 Dec 2023
    This is not true, there are actually multiple WebRTC implementations in different languages besides the reference library: aiortc (python), libdatachannel (C++), sipsorcery (C#),webrtc-rs (rust), werift (Typescript), and Amazon Kinesis (C)
  • how do i build a webapp to process user video from their webcam.
    1 project | /r/flask | 3 Jan 2023
    Not sure flask would work but I think https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc has an example just like what you are trying.
  • How to connect a JS webpage to a python server using WebRTC?
    1 project | /r/webdev | 15 Dec 2022
    Context: I was making a snapchat-like filter application on webcam footage. In order to create those overlays, i used some python's opencv and dlib to locate the face and apply the overlay. As far as i know, websockets are not good for video transfer since sockets are slower so someone suggested me to use "WebRTC". So I decided to settle on this https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc python based webrtc to use my python code at the backend and use a JS front end to send the video and received the filtered image
  • Running a ML model on real-time video coming from the client side.
    1 project | /r/django | 11 Dec 2022
  • [Question] OpenCV and aiortc on a Raspberry Pi 4
    1 project | /r/opencv | 8 Mar 2022
    So it seems like https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc is the obvious answer here, but I just can't seem to grok the documentation. I have run the examples successfully, but can't quite seem to tailor them to my use-case.
  • How in the world there is no webrtc module for python?
    2 projects | /r/flask | 25 Feb 2022
    I'm not sure how you weren't able to find this: aiortc
  • How to deploy OpenCV video feed cam with my Django application?
    2 projects | /r/django | 19 Jul 2021
    You can't use Django for that, RTC is a separate protocol from HTTP. Check out https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc for a Python-based RTC stack. You write code in there which does the data processing and calls HTTP APIs or something on the Django side.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing quinn and aiortc you can also consider the following projects:

quiche - 🥧 Savoury implementation of the QUIC transport protocol and HTTP/3

Pion WebRTC - Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API

s2n-quic - An implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol

libdatachannel - C/C++ WebRTC network library featuring Data Channels, Media Transport, and WebSockets

h3

webrtc - A pure Rust implementation of WebRTC

msquic - Cross-platform, C implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol, exposed to C, C++, C# and Rust.

janus-gateway - Janus WebRTC Server

laminar - A simple semi-reliable UDP protocol for multiplayer games

amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c - Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Webrtc SDK is for developers to install and customize realtime communication between devices and enable secure streaming of video, audio to Kinesis Video Streams.

neqo - Neqo, an implementation of QUIC in Rust

simple-peer - 📡 Simple WebRTC video, voice, and data channels