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Kurento vs WebRTC: What are the differences?

# Introduction

1. **Scalability**: One key difference between Kurento and WebRTC is that Kurento can handle larger-scale deployments due to its built-in media server capabilities, offering features like streaming optimization and media mixing.
2. **Advanced Media Processing**: Kurento provides more advanced media processing capabilities such as computer vision algorithms, image and sound processing, and augmented reality functionalities, which are not directly supported by WebRTC.
3. **Built-in Recording**: Kurento offers built-in recording capabilities, allowing users to easily record streaming sessions without the need for additional software integration, which is not available in standard WebRTC.
4. **Security**: Kurento provides enhanced security features such as encryption, network isolation, and access control mechanisms, which are crucial for applications requiring secure real-time communication.
5. **Multi-protocol Support**: Kurento supports multiple protocols for real-time communication, including WebRTC, HTTP, MMS, RTMP, and more, offering greater flexibility and interoperability compared to WebRTC, which primarily focuses on supporting the WebRTC protocol only.
6. **Ecosystem and Support**: Kurento has a dedicated ecosystem of plugins, extensions, and community support, providing developers with a wider range of tools and resources compared to the more standardized and mainstream WebRTC.

In Summary, Kurento and WebRTC differ in terms of scalability, advanced media processing capabilities, built-in recording features, security, protocol support, and ecosystem availability.
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Hello. So, I wanted to make a decision on whether to use WebRTC or Amazon Chime for a conference call (meeting). My plan is to build an app with features like video broadcasting, and the ability for all the participants to talk and chat. I have used Agora's web SDK for video broadcasting, and Socket.IO for chat features. As I read the comparison between Amazon Chime and WebRTC, it further intrigues me on what I should use given my scenario? Is there any way that so many related technologies could be a hindrance to the other? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. Ritwik Neema

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Edwin Ifionu
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I would recommend Amazon Chime. If I were you, I would eventually look into working with WebRTC as it is very interesting and teaches you a lot. I dove deep into webRTC recently building a webinar broadcasting application (one-to-many) and I can say it is difficult to understand how things actually work and to get it stable. I mean you can vaguely read up on it and get some things to work by copying code on StackOverflow or using a library but that wouldn't teach you much.

In short, go with Chime because it is easy to get started especially if you have a time constraint. But look into webRTC in the future as it enables you to build your own "Chime". Hope this helped!

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What is Kurento?

It is a WebRTC media server and a set of client APIs making simple the development of advanced video applications for WWW and smartphone platforms. Media Server features include group communications, transcoding and more.

What is WebRTC?

It is a free, open project that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple JavaScript APIs. The WebRTC components have been optimized to best serve this purpose.

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What are some alternatives to Kurento and WebRTC?
Jitsi
Jitsi (acquired by 8x8) is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.
Wowza
It offers a customizable live streaming platform to build, deploy and manage high-quality video, live and on-demand. It powers professional-grade streaming for any use case and any device.
GStreamer
It is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.
Mediasoup
Mediasoup and its client side libraries provide a super low level API. They are intended to enable different use cases and scenarios, without any constraint or assumption. Some of these use cases are: Group video chat applications, One-to-many (or few-to-many) broadcasting applications in real-time, and RTP streaming.
Google Drive
Keep photos, stories, designs, drawings, recordings, videos, and more. Your first 15 GB of storage are free with a Google Account. Your files in Drive can be reached from any smartphone, tablet, or computer.
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