OBS Studio Merges WebRTC/Whip Simulcast Support

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4 points·Sean-Der··5 comments

This is something I have been working on for years and am sssooo excited to see merged. This starts a new generation of broadcasting (I hope)

* Cheaper servers. More competition and I want to see people running their own servers.

* Better video quality. Encoding from source is going to be better then transcoding.

* No more bad servers. Send video to your audience and server isn't able to do modification/surveillance with E2E Encryption via WebRTC.

* Better Latency. No more time lost transcoding. I love low latency streaming where people are connected to community. Not just blasting one-way video.

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Please please test it out! I want to catch any bugs/make improvements before branch cut.

This all sounds great, how does this merge enable these things? I'm not very familiar with streaming or how this would work.

Edit: I see there is some info at: https://obsproject.com/kb/whip-streaming-guide

Yea it shows up in the UI. Sorry I am so wrapped up in it I don’t know how to explain it well.

What part did I do a bad job at explaining? The what it does, why it’s exciting or just the enabling it?

I don't understand how adding WebRTC/Whip enables the bullet points you listed. Is the idea that we'll transcode locally and because of that, we can set up a cheap host? How does this impact the level of hardware we'll need locally?

Thanks for taking the time to answer.

Pretty much! You are doing multiple encodes lately.

Yes you will use more bandwidth/compute locally. In the future I hope to support SVC so you have zero bandwidth overage.

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