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WebRTC doesn't add anything for his usecase of playing local files. WebRTC is an API to let the browser stream data (including video/audio) over the network. If
by eis 6y ago
WebRTC doesn't add anything for his usecase of playing local files. WebRTC is an API to let the browser stream data (including video/audio) over the network. If the browser can play the given video by supporting that codec then you can play it using a HTML5 <video> element directly from local disk. No network communication needed.
- discmonkey 6y agoAh yes, didn't think about the use case of unsupported codecs. Though at that point I would argue it would be easier to convert the file with ffmpeg, etc, then to use a custom decoder in the browser.