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by ibc 2266 days ago
mediasoup co-author here.

So you don't know what mediasoup does but you assure that "no need to use a SFU". Too much free time to comment maybe?

e2ee makes sense in one-to-one and N-to-N scenarios. It's just more complex in N-to-N scenarios because you DO need a centralized server so each participant just sends its audio/video once (to the server) and the server distributes it to others given whichever application policy/logic. That's a SFU, and that's what mediasoup does.

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We may be talking past each other, I'm talking about webrtc in general as the subthread was discussinh that. Think about a limited user count screen sharing or vr app with a/v comms built in for example.
I thought this news was about mediasoup, not about WebRTC in general. Said that I agree that your scenario is valid without any media server.