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by avaer 2940 days ago
As a browser author, are there any alternate implementations of WebRTC besides the one all of the browsers use?

From my research I was kind of shocked that the answer might be no.
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cjbprime 2940 days ago
A few, e.g. https://github.com/EricssonResearch/openwebrtc

Surprisingly large amount of dependencies in a conforming implementation. (e.g. SCTP for datachannels!)

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rjsw 2939 days ago
Also it seems to have been decided that you have to use SCTP-in-UDP (RFC 6951) in order to get though firewalls, which is only implemented in FreeBSD so far, so an implementation will include a userspace SCTP library even if the operating system has it in the kernel as well.
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glandium 2940 days ago
Not that it will help you because it's not open source, but Edge probably doesn't use the same implementation as other browsers.
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dustfinger 2939 days ago
> it's not open source

I was wondering if it was. I am disappointed to hear that it is not :-(

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