Pion WebRTC VS unifi-protect-remux

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 :)

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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.

I have worked four jobs related to https://github.com/pion/webrtc and one for https://webrtcforthecurious.com

Two companies used Pion. The other two were just using the protocol (WebRTC)

In my experience Go has been relatively approachable for people that are good at PHP. It has a great standard library and a pretty solid ecosystem, though frameworks aren’t as popular in Go. There are some well regarded libraries for things like WebRTC via https://github.com/pion/webrtc WebSicket via https://github.com/nhooyr/websocket

Don't try to make RTC yourself, it looks easy, but in fact, it's a really hard problem to solve. Use https://pion.ly/ it's a pretty solid package they also have a discord/slack channel with a lot of helpful people there.

Maybe you can reuse some of this code: https://github.com/pion/webrtc/blob/master/examples/data-channels/main.go

If you can rsync over the .ubv files, you could use unifi-protect-remix to convert them to .mp4 files.

A feature I really liked about the Unifi Protect platform was the option to select a portion of video using a timeline slider, and it would then extract those parts and concatenate them into a downloaded file. The problem with Protect is that they use proprietary UBV files for storage and the only other way to bulk export was using a remux tool.

I came across this unifi-protect-remux github project that is supposed to convert UVB files to MP4 and might be useful. The setup there could be complicated.

https://github.com/petergeneric/unifi-protect-remux/releases worth a shot

use this remux tool to convert the video files from .ubv to .mp4

One other thing I did is I whipped up a perl script that converted all the video files from the UDM-PRO drive into mp4 files on another drive, using the unifi protect remux program. It's not the best program (I'm a sysadmin, not a software developer) but it worked for me. It took just under 30 hours to do just shy of 7TB of ubv files. I went from: