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The scalability of DASH/HLS comes from the fact that the video segments are just static files sitting on a http server so they can be cached and distributed with the many techniques for serving static files over http.

If you don't need the scalability of DASH/HLS you can use the WebRTC apis for low latency streaming, usually <1s. WebRTC can be used for client-server applications just as easily as peer-to-peer using a gateway like Janus[1].

[1] https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/




Yer I've looked into WebRTC before but the browser support isn't good enough yet :(


What browser doesn't support WebRTC but does support flash/RTMP ?


Internet Explorer 9, 10, 11...




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