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Hi, mediasoup co-author here.

TL'DR': Pornhub uses mediasoup.

I've read many comments here asking about "how mediasoup is different than XXX" or about "mobile apps". I think the Overview in the website should be self explanatory, I'll just paste a fragment here:

https://mediasoup.org/documentation/overview/

--------------------- Design goals of mediasoup and its client side libraries:

- Be a SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit). - Support both WebRTC and plain RTP input and output. - Be a Node.js module in server side. - Be a tiny JavaScript and C++ libraries in client side. - Be minimalist: just handle the media layer. - Be signaling agnostic: do not mandate any signaling protocol. - Be super low level API. - Support all existing WebRTC endpoints. - Enable integration with well known multimedia libraries/tools.

Use cases:

- Group video chat applications. - One-to-many (or few-to-many) broadcasting applications in real-time. - RTP streaming.




I read the whole thing. I am really confused as to why out of that you chose "Pornhub uses mediasoup" as the TLDR?


Just to easily explain that mediasoup is not a replacement for Jitsi or Zoom, but a low level set of libraries for building build different kind of real-time applications, including multi-party videoconference apps (such as Jitsi or Zoom) and others completely different.




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