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This is one of the reasons we’ve had to go the dreaded electron route and really push the desktop app: it’s just not feasible to deliver the same UX across browsers/OS. Really frustrating. I’ll add one to your list:

4. I wish RTCRtpTransceiver would allow reusing encoded MediaStreams instead of re-encoding. For video, dropped frames are acceptable without needing to renegotiate bandwidth.




Video codecs doesn't work like that, most frames only encode the difference from the previous frame, meaning that if you drop one frame, all frames after that will be impossible to decode correctly.

A technique that's used to get around this is to use special frame reference pattern so some frames depend on a frame two or four frames before, allowing the intermediate frame to be dropped. This comes at a significant cost to the encoding efficiency though. tT use it with a pre-encoded video, it would require you to specifically encode it for this purpose, making the usefulness of such a feature in a client questionable.

Nothing stops you from building a server that does this though, for instance if you want to build a scalable streaming service based on WebRTC.


What you describe are called key frames. Nearly all video uses them. Recorded video for seeking, and steaming for well, steaming.

You missed the entire point of the comment.


Yup I’m in the same boat. The original appeal was how it’s all browser cross platform but in the end it’s not really.

And that’s a good one




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