You should check out this project (https://kyber.media/) by the man behind VLC and ex CTO of a cloud streaming (JB Kempf). It also uses QUIC for transport and VLC/ffmpeg for fast encoding. Unfortunately it's not launched yet AFAIK.
Brief slide in english : https://conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/147/attachments/7...
More detailed overview (in french) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVgvBulXcDA&t=3368s