RTEnnui

RTEnnui is a replacement for the media component of WebRTC. Its goals are portability, low latency, and control.

WebRTC's support for client-to-client data connections is good, but its media support suffers from design by committee. It's extremely opaque, has unpredictable latency and performance, and has requirements that are quite onerous in terms of patents.

RTEnnui fixes this by doing the media component in software, and using WebRTC only for the peer-to-peer connection. This gives us direct control over things like buffering and encoding.

You can find information on the design in DESIGN.md. The server component is at https://github.com/ennuicastr/rtennui-server .

Status

RTEnnui is largely usable for audio, with the major hole being that you need to “bring your own VAD”. Video support is technically functional, but suffers from a lack of APIs to actually capture video in real time, so it is not recommended to use it yet.

Usage

The API is documented with TypeDoc at https://ennuicastr.github.io/doc/rtennui/modules/main.html . Note that the main module (linked) is exposed when you import or require RTEnnui, or you can include rtennui.min.js as a script, in which case the main module is exposed as RTEnnui.

You can find a complete (if simple) example of using RTEnnui in the server repository, in samples/basic-server.