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by Akkuma 4347 days ago
No, we are not using Kickflip. Some of the guys did take a look at it and at that point it wasn't going to help them for mobile, especially Android, since they only supported Android 4.3+ IIRC and we had already developed the iOS app. Additionally, we use RTMP & RTSP on our mobile apps. RTSP on Android produces 2-4s latency, which from what I saw could only be topped by WebRTC. HLS was producing 30-50s latency and RTMP was about 10-15s IIRC.

Somewhat related, but there are some other issues with trying to serve up HD mobile video, such as bad network conditions and capped usage. 720p video at 30 requires quite a lot of upload bandwidth (~1mb/s) for a good looking video.