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Sean-Deryesterday at 8:56 PM1 replyview on HN

Did you use libwebrtc on the backend? When you say `libwebrtc` is the only game in town are you talking about clients or servers?

Even for clients you have things like libpeer that libwebrtc can't hit.


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doctorpanglossyesterday at 10:33 PM

yes - i used libwebrtc on the backend and, pre-LLM, patched it to work around a lot of the things i discovered that were directly related to low latency AV streaming. pion didn't exist then.

i think the challenge is that pion is an excellent product today. it would benefit me if its innovations were subsumed into libwebrtc, because eventually those innovations will show up in the iOS stack, which is one of the customers that matter to me. it is subjective if it is the MOST important customer, that is my belief and it is probably true of openai, at least until they get their own device out the door.

there can be many, many use cases though! not everything has to be, try to make the thing for 1b people that has to interact with all the most powerful and meanest businesses on the planet.