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by shacharz 3297 days ago
What do you mean exactly by that? You want to replace the contribution side (camera to server) by WebRTC or delivery side (server to screen) or both?

Contribution: there are platforms who already uses WebRTC instead of rtmp to stream the live camera feed. You can use tokbox's apis for example.

Delivery: This is where it gets more tricky, the nice thing about http based streaming like HLS and DASH is that it's cacheable just like any other file served over http - making it extremely scalable and that's how most CDNs operate today. Changing that part into WebRTC has it's benefits like low latency but has a huge degradation in scaling complexity because of the connection state oriented nature of WebRTC, there are companies trying to build that as well e.g: Red5