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Comment by MayeulC | Hacker News Reader

I would really like to see some projects that leverage SVC, as I haven't seen a single example (and ffmpeg doesn't support them).

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I believe Galene does[0] Juliusz was working on pion/RTP for it. You can see all the details here [1]

[0] https://github.com/jech/galene

[1] https://github.com/pion/rtp/blob/master/codecs/vp9_packet.go

Thanks a lot for these pointers!

Yes, Galene 0.4 and later uses SVC by default when the following conditions are satisfied:

  * the sender is using a Chromium-like browser (the receiver may be Chromium, Firefox or Safari);
  * the codec is either VP8 or VP9;
  * there are at least three users in the group.

You can see a demo at https://galene.org:8443/group/public and https://galene.org:8443/group/public-vp9 (any username, empty password).

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