[FFmpeg-devel] WHIP - Webrtc Http Ingest Protocol

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 11:31, Sergio Garcia Murillo <
sergio.garcia.murillo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> WebRTC can be an intimidating monster, and we all are aware of that.
> Also, the fact that every webrtc media server/service has their own
> custom protocol has not helped to increase its adoption in the streaming
> world, with still relies heavily on other protocols like RTMP, SRTP or
> even RTSP for ingesting content.
>
> In order to try to broaden the adoption of WebRTC in the streaming
> world, and make it available in OSS tools like ffmpeg, gstreamer and
> OBS, we have created the Webrtc Http ingest protocol (WHIP), so the same
> implementation works across several (hopefully most) webrtc services and
> media servers.
>

There are plenty of protocols for content ingest that are widely used
(RTMP, SRT, RIST etc) that are far superior to anything WebRTC can do.
Why are you conflating a delivery protocol (WebRTC) with ingest? When you
have a hammer everything seems to look like a nail.

Kieran