Integration of WebRTC via broadcast-box? about owncast HOT 7 OPEN

I would say SRT is far more preferable. It's an already very robust broadcast grade protocol that can have sub second latency too #980

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Latency will always exist with HLS.

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Latency will always exist with HLS.

Would it then be of interest to support Media over QUIC as an alternative transport as a secondary option to HLS for clients that support it?

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Owncast uses HLS because it's universally supported as a standard. You can point any player to an Owncast server and watch the stream, that's a part of the value. With other, non-standard, options, this isn't possible.

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I saw the importance with backwards compatibility and that's also important to me, that's why I specifically tried to phrase my suggestion as a secondary solution to the widely supported option.

It would be really nice to offer a low latency stream to those who use software that allows for it and still be compatible with the wide spectrum of different users out there at the same time. Sometimes a low latency stream is crucial for interacting with viewers. But maybe that's just not feasible if it costs too much effort to implement and support.

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I guess it makes sense to clarify a bit here. I think the original suggestion was for WebRTC ingest to reduce latency. Since video ingest accounts for a very small amount of latency, I wanted to mention that it wouldn't help much.

That being said, I'd be much more interested in supporting different ingest options than different playback options since ingest doesn't impact the viewer experience, and doesn't require specialized, non-standard players. It only impacts the streamer. But, like I said, it probably won't help latency much.

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I think there is a bit of confusion here and gabek knows it better than us. The well known WebRTC is a real-time communication API using a direct peer-to-peer connection and is not known to be used in stream contribution. I understand that gabek was referring to "WHIP", the WebRTC HTTP Ingest Protocol, developed by http://millicast.com/ to solve the biggest pain point with adopting WebRTC as a contribution protocol.

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