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by Sean-Der 1181 days ago
I use WebRTC today and am happy with it! Works great for broadcasting from Web, Mobile and tools that support it (GStreamer)

I have a PR open to OBS for it right now https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/7926

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How many of those users are direct vs. relaying through a TURN server? I'm genuinely curious, as I kind of anticipate that the majority of users are relaying, but I guess if p2p requests can open router ports in the common config, that could work.
IPv6 users usually manage a direct connection, and that is ~half the world now.

IPv4 users seem to manage a connection ~70% of the time in my experience. Remember only one peer needs to have a router with a suitable config for everything to work.

I realize most of that... just didn't realize how many work in terms of direct connection, which is nice to hear.
When a PR sits for many months and has hundreds of comments, it probably means it's getting near to bikeshed territory and it would have been better to get small PR's in adding the groundwork and a project plan agreed with leads beforehand...
Project leads created the original PR + RFC

* PR https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/7192

* RFC https://github.com/obsproject/rfcs/pull/43

I tried to keep the size as small as I could. It is just basic audio+video (no Simulcast/ICE Renegotiation etc...) It has been a tough process, but I am going to keep working on it until I can get consensus.