Integrate third party webrtc scalable broadcaster or server

[maxlinux2000]

Imagine being a teacher who wants to teach his students through this chat.
Ideally, the teacher can make a broadcast transmission WebRTC with audio, video, screen, files, and that students can record the video on their mobiles / computer.

The scenarios can be manifold : telepresence conferences , live events ...

here some examples:
https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/

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在 2015年10月16日，上午2:00，maxlinux2000 notifications@github.com 写道：

Imagine being a teacher who wants to teach his students through this chat.
Ideally, the teacher can make a broadcast transmission WebRTC with audio, video, screen, files, and that students can record the video on their mobiles / computer.

The scenarios can be manifold : telepresence conferences , live events ...

here some examples:
https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/

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[Sing-Li]

The webrtc-experiment styled multi-users video chat service (or broadcast) is already in the current version of Rocket.Chat, and should be working. See #933. This style of mesh network conferencing is absolutely not scalable.

Scalable broadcast will require infrastructure support (someone has to pay for the server-side bandwidth and computing resources) and integration of third-party (proprietary/patented) server/gateway/cloud services. Modified title to reflect this.

[maxlinux2000]

mmm.... and connect rocket.chat to http://www.kurento.org/ as third-party server?
It's opensource and seem good.

[Sing-Li]

The key question is, @maxlinux2000 - would you be willing to set up a server and offer the hosting and bandwidth for us to test during the development phase.

Even if you are willing, how many other users are willing and want to specifically run and manage a kurento server, pay for its resources and bandwidth, in order to use the features described.

[maxlinux2000]

mmm... ok, I can setup a VPS in digitalocean with kurento and pass to you developper the access.
The have only 20GB of space, but for testing is enought.

Obviously the server is only for testing porpouse, but I will write a simple script for auto setup, so everyone can have a private kurento media server for 5$ monthly in digitalocean or other similar company.

Please, still some days in order to setup a VPS for testing. (I need time to study kurento before)

regards
MaX

[Sing-Li]

Awesome! Please keep us updated.

[xjtufjj]

For this feature, I suggest to take a look at jitsi-meet(https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet), which is a mature webrtc based conference platform. Based on my limited knowledge, it uses the SFU as the forwarding core, not the MCU, which needs a lot CPU resource.

[telemakhos]

+1 for jisti-meet or a jitsi-videobridge solution. Janus gateway is another great option

[compuguy]

If this becomes an option, it would need to be configurable (i.e. allow rocketchat to use a in house broadcaster and/or render, especially in some situations where internet connectivity is limited or none.

[compuguy]

@Sing-Li If webrtc-experiment can be enabled, and pointed to a server, it needs to be documented somewhere.