Show HN: WebTransport vs. WebRTC vs. WebSocket

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Post by WanjohiRyan » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 2:46 PM UTC

Show HN: WebTransport vs. WebRTC vs. WebSocket
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Re: Show HN: WebTransport vs. WebRTC vs. WebSocket

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Post by Sean-Der » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 5:13 PM UTC

The third scenario is fixed with https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8260

This just needs to be implemented in libwebrtc’s SCTP implementation. It isn’t implemented in Pion either I believe?

Re: Show HN: WebTransport vs. WebRTC vs. WebSocket

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Post by kevmo314 » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 5:58 PM UTC

I'd be curious to see how WebRTC's media channels do in addition to the data channels too. Nacks might be faster than the retransmission interval.

Re: Show HN: WebTransport vs. WebRTC vs. WebSocket

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Post by omeze » Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 10:58 PM UTC

kevmo314 wrote: post #3

I'd be curious to see how WebRTC's media channels do in addition to the data channels too. Nacks might be faster than the retransmission interval.

yea, would also love to see this

Re: Show HN: WebTransport vs. WebRTC vs. WebSocket

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Post by jtsiskin » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 2:56 AM UTC

kevmo314 wrote: post #3

I'd be curious to see how WebRTC's media channels do in addition to the data channels too. Nacks might be faster than the retransmission interval.

How are you gonna send binary data over a media channel?

Re: Show HN: WebTransport vs. WebRTC vs. WebSocket

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Post by kevmo314 » Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 6:17 AM UTC

jtsiskin wrote: post #5

kevmo314 wrote: post #3

I'd be curious to see how WebRTC's media channels do in addition to the data channels too. Nacks might be faster than the retransmission interval.

How are you gonna send binary data over a media channel?

What is video if not binary data? You can send whatever you want over a media channel, WebRTC is (largely) unopinionated about the payload contents.

It's uncommon, but my comment was more to shine light on the different characteristics between media channels and data channels.