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by jallmann 4082 days ago
I've been working on exactly this. It's not horribly difficult if you've got experience building media servers, but it is tedious, because WebRTC has so many more moving parts than eg, RTMP, and the tooling is not very mature yet. Not to mention WebRTC itself is still a bit in flux (eg, ORTC).

Unfortunately, until IE and Safari support WebRTC, then RTMP is really still the best way to do low-latency streaming and video chat in the browser. Additionally, most RTMP server software will scale out to hundreds of clients out of the box.