[andrewmd5]

> it's likely using WebRTC under the hood

We use multiple connection methods actually. WebRTC data channels can fail to connect a lot and we don't want people to be left out in the rain. So we built our own PKI and global dynamic DNS on top of Let's Encrypt to ensure connectivity https://blog.rainway.io/encryption-for-all-3383217e4194 (we made sure to sponsor them as well)

>MS Desktop Duplication API & Media Foundation

Are too much of a black box and we needed to be able to fine-tune both our capturing and encoding.

>moonlight-chrome

Is a Chrome App (discontinued) which relies on native code whereas Rainway is HTML5 and requires no plugins and works in all spec compliant browsers. We