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Naive question: what's cool about doing webrtc outside a browser?

• Immortalin 8y ago
  If you are trying to build e.g. Twitch or Discord, you want to have a server backend to handle processing, hide user IPs from each other for privacy etc. (the term you are looking for is single forwarding unit). If you just want to get something up quickly, I recommend OpenVidu.
  • pmalynin 8y ago
    If you're hiding everything behind a server, couldn't you just use WebSockets? I thought the whole appeal of WebRTC is the whole peer to peer setup.
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    • gfodor 8y ago
      WebRTC provides audio and video streaming, as well as unreliable/unordered data transport through data channels, which is really great for games.
    • plq 8y ago
      You can't use UDP with web sockets.
• znpy 8y ago
  Maybe you want to do something audio/video based, don't want to reinvent the wheel and more importantly you absolutely don't want a web browser running on the system running your application (for example because you're running on an embedded system)