WebRTC
Dev tools
webrtc example
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Performance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Pion library is clean and has responsive developers
From 1 comment
I have worked with the library a good bit, and it is definitely getting there. There is still too much reliance on ssrcs and simulcast is not directly supported yet. There is…
kodablah on HN
Pion seems promising
From 1 comment
Pion seems promising! Is there anything like Jitsi built on Pion? (I have been using Jitsi a lot lately. It is great software and a good example that free software can be just as…
xorcist on HN
Objections
VP8 is hard on hardware and drains battery on devices lacking hardware encoding
From 2 comments
I am kinda annoyed by VP8. It is so widespread and so awful due no support in hardware. I think even latest macos doesn't support hardware encoding. Once video is on VP8 iPhone…
ex3ndr on HNWhat? If your CPU have H264 then you shouldn't pay any licenses. You will have it in any CPU everywhere. It is not apple late to the party, it is just doesn't make sense to…
ex3ndr on HN
Simulcast not directly supported yet and reliance on SSRCs
From 1 comment
I have worked with the library a good bit, and it is definitely getting there. There is still too much reliance on ssrcs and simulcast is not directly supported yet. There is…
kodablah on HN
Requests
Explain insertable streams more clearly in the README for newcomers
From 1 comment
Hi, perhaps you could be a little more explicit in the README about what you mean by "insertable stream" for people without the background. Is this like a dataflow-graph where…
amelius on HN
Questions
Can frames be accessed from JavaScript or WebAssembly, and is it efficient?
From 1 comment
Hi, perhaps you could be a little more explicit in the README about what you mean by "insertable stream" for people without the background. Is this like a dataflow-graph where…
amelius on HN
How does WebRTC relate to HTTP/3 and QUIC?
From 1 comment
How does WebRTC go together with HTTP/3 and QUIC, or is it unrelated at all?
TomMarius on HN
Alternatives named
Jitsi
From 1 comment
Pion seems promising! Is there anything like Jitsi built on Pion? (I have been using Jitsi a lot lately. It is great software and a good example that free software can be just as…
xorcist on HN
Ion
From 1 comment
Thank you :) Yes! There are three 'media servers' that I know of. You can also find more stuff in awesome-pion [2] * https://github.com/pion/ion *…
Sean-Der on HN
peer-calls
From 1 comment
Thank you :) Yes! There are three 'media servers' that I know of. You can also find more stuff in awesome-pion [2] * https://github.com/pion/ion *…
Sean-Der on HN
Zoom
From 1 comment
Yeah, it is like people care about this when they literally can't hear a person on the other side because of fans. Without hardware support all this codecs are useless on mobile.…
ex3ndr on HN