[HN Gopher] WebRTC-HTTP ingestion protocol (WHIP)
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       WebRTC-HTTP ingestion protocol (WHIP)
        
       Author : pabs3
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2022-02-15 04:55 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
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       | Everlag wrote:
       | The current state of media ingest protocols is actually getting
       | interesting. For quite some time its been a situation of
       | 'everyone supports RTMP so you support RTMP' plus 'vendor X does
       | not support $FANCY_NEW_PROTOCOL but they do support RTMP'.
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       | Now we've got this fun competition between various protocols at
       | different stages of their lifecycle. Some are SRT where one
       | vendor is pushing them quite hard and support is flakily
       | available but not everywhere. Others, like WHIP, are much earlier
       | in their lifecycle.
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       | Most new protocols support carrying more codecs without gross
       | hacks and generally are much nicer than an early 2000s protocol
       | which hasn't really ever had a canonical specification; beating
       | RTMP is a somewhat low bar. Each one also has their own shiny
       | ribbons like using QUIC/webtransport or very-low latency.
       | 
       | The next few years will be interesting to see which gets adoption
       | and which get dropped at the wayside. Could be any of the current
       | contenders; I'm just hoping I can stop maintaining an RTMP stack
       | sometime before 2040 without suffering from extreme
       | fragmentation.
        
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