[ibc]

> is like sending information at several resolutions and each peer selecting the best one.

Well, no. This is not about sending all video layers to all receivers and let them choose which one to render. Not al all.

The purpose of video simulcast/SVC is the opposite: make the SFU decide (based on estimated per receiver bandwidth or whatever) which video layers to deliver to each receiver, so a HQ video of 8 mbps does not break your Internet downlink (you just receive the lowest video layer which is 1 mbps, for example).

And more important: no, the server can not send the same UDP datagram (the same RTP packet) to all receivers. The server needs a different RTP sequence number count and a different SRTP encryption keys with each receiver.

I'm afraid this is not so easy as you say, not at all.

BTW: Do you want to say something about mediasoup? or just about your stuff?

[manthideaal]

Thanks for all the info. I think that mediasoup is a very good SFU. I wish you the best and I hope mediasoup SFU to become a crucial tool for rtc.

Edited: In a recent article (1) it seems that multicast is better than SFU in webrtc. In the PhD. Thesis (2) a hybrid model is used: Hybrid multicast-unicast video streaming over heterogenous cellular networks.

(1)https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8811590 (2) https://summit.sfu.ca/item/16802