Luke Curley - Replacing WebRTC with Media over QUIC

It's been over a decade since WebRTC was released. Surely there's something new on the horizon, right?

Media over QUIC is an IETF working group that is working on a new live media standard to replace the likes of WebRTC, RTMP/SRT, and HLS/DASH. Wow that's overly ambitious, but it's being backed by your favorite big tech companies (and some non-favorites) in the same standards body that has produced hits such as... WebRTC.

But replacing WebRTC is difficult. It exists because there were no web standards in 2011 that could accomplish conferencing; remember this was before even HTML5. But there are new Web standards now!

This talk will go over WebTransport and WebCodecs, and how they are utilized to provide a user experience nearly on par with WebRTC while being dramatically more flexible. No more magic black box, no more ICE/STUN/TURN/SDP/DTLS/SCTP/RTP/SRTP/mDNS, no more getting ghosted by Google. Just you with a QUIC connection and the ability to encode/decode video frames.

And of course we'll go over the promise of Media over QUIC and why you should use the standard instead of your own bespoke protocol. I'll give you a hint, it starts with C and ends with "DN Support".

This talk was presented at Demuxed 2024, a conference by and for engineers working in video. Every year we host a conference with lots of great new talks like this in San Francisco. Learn more at https://demuxed.com