Hacker News Reader

Lots of options! More and more WebRTC SFUs are adding WHIP support. Check out https://galene.org/ it lets you do OBS in and has things like chat. Might be better if you are streaming to family and want chat. I would try and find a VPS that is best geographically located.

Cloudflare if you want this quick. Even though it is proprietary you have no vendor lock in, just change your WHIP URL in OBS if things aren’t going right.

View on HN

apparently 'an sfu' is 'is a media server component capable of receiving multiple media streams and then deciding which of these media streams should be sent to which participants [of which the] main use is in supporting group calls and live streaming/broadcast scenarios.' according to https://bloggeek.me/webrtcglossary/sfu/

i suspect webrtc implementations in browsers are the source of many of the problems but i don't know how to debug that

In HLS the client decides what stream to use. I presume in WebRTC it’s a negotiation.

Now I have to read the protocol. I was thinking the SFU was just a proxy, but it sounds more like it also handles some signaling.

i think in webrtc your code can decide what stream to use or to transmit in a turing-complete way; it doesn't define anything like that

Reply on news.ycombinator.com