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Does e2e work with a large group of people video conferencing? I thought encryption might get pretty expensive if 1080p streaming directly between peers. For a
by est 7y ago
Does e2e work with a large group of people video conferencing?
I thought encryption might get pretty expensive if 1080p streaming directly between peers. For a team of 30 people it eats bandwidth quickly. If there's some kind of server (or supernode) transcoding, does transcoding work with e2e?
- supermatt 7y agoYes, you can have e2e encryption videoconferencing with large groups of people - just not using webrtc (unless you do some crazy hacks - mentioned in my other comment). By definition, a transcoding server or supernode (acting as an MCU - Multipoint Conferencing Unit) would be a MITM, so that wouldnt be e2e encrypted. A simple way with WebRTC for a small conference, would be to transcode on the origin and provide multiple streams to peers - one for thumbnails, one for higher quality, low bandwidth fallbacks, etc. This doesnt scale well, but it works nicely for small conferences.