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by mwcampbell 1536 days ago
Have you considered releasing your Rust bindings for libwebrtc separately, either as open source or as another commercial product? I could have really used that for a desktop application I started developing a few months ago. In the absence of such bindings, I went with Electron instead, reluctantly. And no, I don't think your high-level API would be a good fit; what I'm doing with WebRTC is too custom.

Edit: Also, webrtc-rs doesn't work for me either; AFAIK, it doesn't yet have enough of the media stack, including hard stuff like echo cancellation.
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Sean-Der 1536 days ago
You should help out with the gaps in the media stack! That is the only way it will get better :) I don't believe echo cancellation is a hard problem either. I don't know the specific details, but I have heard this argument so many times.

People told me that unless you were a developer at a big company you can't build DTLS, SCTP and RTP Congestion Control either. Maybe the community implementations aren't as good yet, but I think it is a tortoise vs hare.

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regexident 1535 days ago
> You should help out with the gaps in the media stack! That is the only way

As it happens I am the author of the audio-buffer and constraint-algorithm implementations in webrtc-rs/media: https://github.com/webrtc-rs/media/commits?author=regexident

So even though we are not using webrtc-rs in Daily today, we are (or at least I am) contributing to it, in hopes of it becoming a feasible option at some point.

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