FOSDEM 2020: Which Video Network Streaming Protocol Should I Use?

FOSDEM Open Media devroom talk comparing SRT, RTSP, RIST, WebRTC, HLS and DASH for live video network streaming use cases.

Link

Related resources

  • FOSDEM 2024: Streaming Live Using RIST On Demand to ThousandsFOSDEM Open Media devroom talk on a real-world RIST architecture achieving 500ms glass-to-glass latency at scale, comparing RIST vs QUIC.
  • FOSDEM 2020: Getting Your Virtual Hands On RISTFOSDEM Open Media devroom talk introducing an open-source RIST protocol library, cloud images, and interop with VLC/upipe/GStreamer.
  • libristPrimary open-source C library implementing the RIST protocol (Simple/Main/Advanced profiles), used by VLC, FFmpeg, OBS, and GStreamer.
  • RTMP: A Quick Deep-DiveBroadcast Knowledge conference talk video deep-diving RTMP protocol internals and its displacement by SRT/RIST/Zixi in modern contribution…
  • galene-streamGateway bridging UDP/RTMP/SRT/RIST streams into the Galène WebRTC conferencing server.
  • Shaka Packager DASH TutorialOfficial tutorial for using Shaka Packager CLI to generate MPEG-DASH MPDs with SegmentTemplate/SegmentTimeline and Widevine DRM.
  • RIST vs SRT: Technical ComparisonElecard's technical deep-dive comparing RIST and SRT low-latency transport protocols.
  • srt-advanced-serverConfigurable SRT server supporting single-source to multi-target stream distribution.
  • low-latency-dash-ffmpegDockerized ffmpeg reference configuration for LL-DASH per-frame moof chunk streaming.
  • PantomimeSwift M3U8 parser supporting both master and media playlists.
  • ldash — low-latency DASH origin in GoGo reference origin server for low-latency DASH with a chunked-transfer upload endpoint, useful for experimenting with CTE-based LL-DASH de…