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Since I had to do quite some work on due to the many changes in the new draft, I thought I'd write a new blog post to summarize what's new in the spec, and what we did as a result. If you don't know much about , , or broadcasting, hopefully the blog post will help shed some light on that too.

Hope you'll enjoy it, boosts welcome!

meetecho.com/blog/whep-qui/

Meetecho BlogWHEP qui? | Meetecho BlogIt's been a while since last time we spoke of WHEP: just to brush up your memory, it was a few months ago, when we first introduced WHEP as a companion protocol to WHIP, that we had talked about a few other times already. At the time, we explained how WHIP and WHEP both play
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That presentation only covered , but provided some context on how to handle distribution of media streams on a larger scale via as well. is a more recent proposal, that I recently covered in a blog post:
meetecho.com/blog/whip-whep/

For both protocols there are open source implementations (including some of my own), so if you're interested in the possibilities there's plenty of ways to play with them!

Meetecho BlogWHIP, WHEP, WHAP! | Meetecho BlogIf you're confused about all these acronyms, you're not alone! Those interested in WebRTC and broadcasting have probably heard about WHIP already: WHEP and WHAP maybe not as much :mrgreen: And if you're even more confused about why I chose a picture of Huey, Dewey and Louie as the featured image, that's because in Italian

I haven't seen any post so far, so I thought I'd contribute one myself, since it's what I work on everyday.

These are exciting times for this technology, especially if you're interested in large scale , as the IETF is actively working on standardizing protocols for that, and will have a meeting later this week:

→ ingestion (replaces RTMP)
→ distribution (replaces HLS/Dash)

If you want to learn more, I made a presentation at :
archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedu

archive.fosdem.orgFOSDEM 2022 - WebRTC broadcasting with WHIP