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Since you seems to be very familiar with that topic, do you know if most popular video chat applications stream voice and video directly between peer, or do the

by rixed 7y ago

Since you seems to be very familiar with that topic, do you know if most popular video chat applications stream voice and video directly between peer, or do they have to go through some central server? And if so, how much latency does that cost us?

rlyshw 7y ago
WebRTC is direct peer to peer. There’s a reliance on a STUN/TURN server to provide signaling for things like NAT traversal but other than that it’s all p2p.
- tehlike 7y ago
  The answer might be a mix, if video conference involves more than trivial amount of participants.