What is Mediasoup?
Mediasoup and its client side libraries provide a super low level API. They are intended to enable different use cases and scenarios, without any constraint or assumption. Some of these use cases are: Group video chat applications,
One-to-many (or few-to-many) broadcasting applications in real-time, and RTP streaming.
Mediasoup is a tool in the Web and Video Conferencing category of a tech stack.
Mediasoup is an open source tool with 5.9K GitHub stars and 1.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Mediasoup's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Mediasoup?
Companies
Developers
17 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Mediasoup.
Mediasoup Integrations
Mediasoup's Features
- Simulcast and SVC support
- Congestion control
- Sender and receiver bandwidth estimation with spatial/temporal layers distribution algorithm
- SCTP support (WebRTC DataChannels and SCTP over plain UDP)
- Extremely powerful (media worker subprocess coded in C++ on top of libuv)
Mediasoup Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Mediasoup?
Jitsi
Jitsi (acquired by 8x8) is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.
Kurento
It is a WebRTC media server and a set of client APIs making simple the development of advanced video applications for WWW and smartphone platforms. Media Server features include group communications, transcoding and more.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
