WHIP Muxer Merged To FFmpeg For Sub-Second Latency Streaming

FFmpeg has added support for WHIP (WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol), enabling sub-second latency live streaming by leveraging WebRTC's fast, secure video delivery capabilities. It's a major update that introduces a new WHIP muxer to make FFmpeg more powerful for real-time broadcasting applications. Phoronix's Michael Larabel reports: WHIP uses HTTP for exchanging initial information and capabilities and then uses STUN binding to establish a UDP session. Encryption is supported -- and due to WebRTC, mandatory -- with WHIP and audio/video frames are split into RTP packets. WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol is an IETF standard for ushering low-latency communication over WebRTC to help with streaming/broadcasting uses. With this FFmpeg commit introducing nearly three thousand lines of new code, an initial WHIP muxer has been introduced. You can learn more about WebRTC WHIP in this presentation by Millicast (PDF).

I wonder how fast someone will implement this

[Revek]

I would really like to provide low latency streaming in a cafe setting for a library.

Something fast an easy

[duk242]

Would be great to have something that's easy to setup where you can throw a video/Window/OBS stream at it then use a low powered device at the other end (rPi or old PC) over wifi to play video with minimal latency without all the farting around or high cost that there is with existing solutions (So, NDI, but with more compression so it fits over wifi and not the cost of NDI....)

amazing

[Dr. Tom]

It's rather mind-boggling; everything about this is more sophisticated and difficult than you think it is

Get off my lawn, damn kids!

[DesertNomad]

does this have anything to do with "whipping the llama's ass"?

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[djgl]

Rest in peace, Wesley.

crazy

[Anonymous Coward]

What's crazy about FFmpeg is that not only is it pretty much the software component of its type used anywhere in the modern world (even proprietary services use it at its core) but it's just one of many projects created by Fabrice Bellard. Fabrice should be as famous as Linus Torvalds, if not moreso.

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[ZERO1ZERO]

thank you for the information. I never knew about him. Here is his wiki for people that only like to click : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]