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I hadn't heard of Red Queen's Race before, and your use of it in a somewhat novel way was awesome. That was 15 minutes well wasted.

I'm Nick, a video engineer at Mux!

We can support almost any valid h264 file :D

In an ideal world, you'd send 1080p high profile h264 encoded with a bitrate above 8Mbps (or CRF 18 for x264 nerds), with a max keyframe interval of around 5 seconds. Closed GOPs also makes processing more efficient.

Disco will never die.

I think one huge difference between Twitch and YouTube is that the CEO of Twitch will still personally respond to someone on HN when they have troubles streaming :'D

NAT traversal is part of ICE, but another part is formally specifying things like how to trigger accepting a connection, and which connection can be tied to which WebRTC session. This can actually make it easier, not harder, to use WebRTC.

In addition, the SDP exchange also sets up DTLS, making sure that whoever the WebRTC SDP was exchanged with is the same as whoever connects at a low-level. While you can implement this as a messaging exchange over UDP once the connection is established, its a nice property that WebRTC doesn't even allow the connection to be established with a non-secured link.

I think the hardest part of the stack is getting a decent, stand-alone implementation. With things like Websockets creating a server is straightforward, but libraries for low-level webrtc are much harder to build.

Hi! I'm one of the authors of librtcdcpp.

Its still new, but we're starting to pick up some steam in the pace of development, and we have a pretty easy demo in the repo.

I've spent far too much of my life playing you're damn game, and now you just went ahead and ruined my weekend.

Thanks! Keep up the great work ;)

Hi! Nick here, author of librtcdcpp - mind elaborating on why you don't like log4cxx? Boost I get - I'm only using one or two easily-replaced headers, and would like to remove it next release :)

Hi! Thanks for linking my project - I'm currently trying to make librtcdcpp production-ready after having many issues with librtcdc. Patches very welcome!