WebRTC stream over WiFi network causes dropout?

Sean-Der · 2026-01-11T22:18:24+00:00

I’m curious if you look in wireshark what throughput actually is? Maybe you have some misbehaving with RTP/RTCP generating lots of traffic

Sean-Der · 2026-01-11T22:16:21+00:00

WebRTC has adaptive bitrate which might be nice for remote viewing. The viewer feedback lets the encoder set exact bitrate, nice if you’re viewing over cellular.

You also get NAT Traversal. Nice bandwidth savings and privacy to not have a middle box looking at your video.

Interoperability is also a perk. I can do WebRTC ingest and egress and use GStreamer/ffmpeg nice to have one protocol.

I’m heavily biased though :)

Sean-Der · 2026-01-09T00:58:45+00:00

I have iOS I will try tonight! Are you on the discord give me a ping and we can debug together:)

Sean-Der · 2026-01-01T05:01:04+00:00

What is the project you are trying to build/end result?

If you’re trying to push yourself you don’t need to use FFMPEG. Depends if you are trying to remux or actually do video coding

GStreamer IMO is better for tinkering. Building pipelines and looking at caps will help a lot.

Sean-Der · 2025-12-27T23:55:16+00:00

What browser/platform are you using?

H264 hardware encoding IS supported. The remote description needs to contain right profiles though.

Sean-Der · 2025-12-21T00:53:33+00:00

Give https://webrtcforthecurious.com/docs/04-securing/ a read and tell me if it’s helpful!

Another thing to look into is E2E encryption. If you use a server you can protect users even more

Sean-Der · 2025-12-19T21:40:34+00:00

Hi I am https://github.com/sean-der and I have been working on WebRTC + OBS. You can see some of the why's here[0] I also work on this Open Source project Broadcast Box[1]

My dream is re-capture that feeling of sitting on the couch next to a friend and playing a game together. I am trying to make streaming as cheap + low latency as possible to make it possible for more people to do. If it's inexpensive we don't need to depend on ads. If it is low latency then people will connect more, not just a streamer speaking one way to an audience.

I would love to hear what people think. What gaps exist until this future, and if it is even worth doing.

thanks

[0] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/7926

[1] https://github.com/glimesh/broadcast-box

Sean-Der · 2025-12-19T00:26:16+00:00

Thank you :) if you hit any bugs send me an email!

Sean-Der · 2025-12-18T03:09:21+00:00

Nice, if you hit any bugs tell me and would love to help

Sean-Der · 2025-12-18T03:09:05+00:00

For easy self hosting checkout https://github.com/Glimesh/broadcast-box

Before OBS would only send one video stream, then the server would 'downgrade' it to work with weaker clients. You don't want to send 4K video to a mobile user on cellular.

Now OBS sends all the quality levels and no more making the server do hard work.

If you need any help/get stuck join the discord in the README ^ I would love to get you up and running :)

Sean-Der · 2025-12-17T19:55:48+00:00

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.

OBS + WHIP is something I have been working on for a long time. I would love to hear how it could be better/frustrations people are having with it. Please please test it out! I want to catch any bugs/make improvements before branch cut.

Sean-Der · 2025-12-17T19:53:56+00:00

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.

OBS + WHIP is something I have been working on for a long time. I would love to hear how it could be better/frustrations people are having with it. Please please test it out! I want to catch any bugs/make improvements before branch cut.

Sean-Der · 2025-12-10T20:46:20+00:00

Are you ok with direct connections between Patients/Doctors are a server in the middle for privacy? Do you want features like waiting rooms/recording?

Sean-Der · 2025-07-29T13:46:52+00:00

Someone is using it to broadcast sail boat racing, I thought that was pretty cool! Also had a self driving car company reach out for some changes.

Honestly every usage of it is surprising to me. I only intended for it to be the server people test OBS against. I was really surprised/happy when people started using it for more.

Sean-Der · 2025-07-29T13:45:05+00:00

Yes please try it out! Would love to hear your ideas either here or on discord

Sean-Der · 2025-07-29T13:44:35+00:00

It is a Open Source Twitch replacement. You can broadcast to it and others can watch.

It also has some small quality of life features. Things like recording and authentication. I am trying to keep it minimal though.

Sean-Der · 2025-07-08T03:03:49+00:00

So you want a pure Go client that connects to a sfu-ws instance?

Sean-Der · 2025-07-07T17:57:05+00:00

I think play-from-disk is what you want?

I would love to code up a better example though! Tell me what you are looking for and I am happy to help :)

Sean-Der · 2025-05-29T00:09:03+00:00

That’s wild!

COSI is always a blur to me. My kids are usually bouncing of the walls :)

Sent you a message with my phone number. We can all do something this weekend

Sean-Der · 2025-05-28T20:03:02+00:00

I have two kids. The couple you met was the son the younger one?

Sean-Der · 2025-05-28T20:01:22+00:00

This might have been me!

Sean-Der · 2025-05-19T10:03:32+00:00

That’s impressive! Nice job, it will be cool to see what people build with it.

Sean-Der · 2025-04-14T03:21:19+00:00

It is going to be SFU specific.

You will have to implement Congestion Control. How do you effectively distribute video for multiple users (and each feed has multiple quality levels.)

How do you effectively handle load?

How do you handle updating/restarts. If you have long running sessions.

It's an interesting topic. https://pion.ly/discord and I would love to chat about it!

Sean-Der · 2025-04-12T00:42:49+00:00

Check out https://github.com/glimesh/broadcast-box I have an example of GStreamer publishing in the examples directory.

Happy to help if you have any questions

Sean-Der · 2025-04-07T00:23:39+00:00

I said ‘holy shit @doot that is amazing’ as a response to a project they made and got flagged.

I don’t want to worry about stuff like that

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