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Hey cool stuff, Chris! Good to finally see you taking the browser seriously.

We started to do the same at Rainway over a year ago https://blog.rainway.io/play-overwatch-and-anything-else-in-...

We are big fans of web-based real-time streaming so if you want to read more: https://blog.rainway.io/the-art-of-pivoting-how-we-built-rai...

Excited to see how you develop this!

EDIT: A quick correction for your blog -- the MSE low delay rendering was not added for Project Stream, it has been there since 2015 and is triggered via heuristics.

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So you're filing a patent based on other's open source tech?

I'm sorry, we don't use anyone else open source code (we started building web-based game streaming back in 2017)

We do release a lot of our own though: https://github.com/RainwayApp

I mean if it's built in the browser it's likely using WebRTC under the hood. Might not be the same techniques they described in their article but all the negotiation and transport is built on open source then. Likely also using MS Desktop Duplication API and Media Foundation.

Not sure why the time you started building it matters but hasn't moonlight-chrome been around for even longer? https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-chrome

> it's likely using WebRTC under the hood

We use multiple connection methods actually. WebRTC data channels can fail to connect a lot and we don't want people to be left out in the rain. So we built our own PKI and global dynamic DNS on top of Let's Encrypt to ensure connectivity https://blog.rainway.io/encryption-for-all-3383217e4194 (we made sure to sponsor them as well)

>MS Desktop Duplication API & Media Foundation

Are too much of a black box and we needed to be able to fine-tune both our capturing and encoding.

>moonlight-chrome

Is a Chrome App (discontinued) which relies on native code whereas Rainway is HTML5 and requires no plugins and works in all spec compliant browsers. We

Your comment reads like an incredibly passive-aggressive cease & desist letter. Yes, you're filing a patent, and yes, you started doing this over a year ago. Good for you! This marking of territory is an immature look you really don't want to put on in a public forum.

Was their post edited since you posted this? I'm not seeing any of what you are describing.

It was, they said they were filing a provisional patent

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