GStreamer WebRTC in 2020
A little while ago, we at Centricular developed a plugin for easier WebRTC with GStreamer . For the details on the initial release, see Nirbheek 's blogpost about the new GStreamer WebRTC implementation. The initial release gathered a lot of interest and sparked a fair bit of activity around some of the needed features. This is a birds eye view of the new features since Nirbheek's blog post. New features RTP Bundling In a WebRTC connection there may be multiple streams that need to be sent and received. Without bundling, they would require opening a connection for each stream to be sent (and another for some control packets if not muxing RTCP with the RTP stream). This may consume precious ports and TURN resources if relaying is in use with the network topology. A WebRTC stream with bundling will instead send all of the streams over a single connection. GStreamer already supported bundling of streams as required by the WebRTC and related specifications and an im...