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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.
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
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!
Pros of Kurento
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Pros of WebRTC
- OpenSource3
- No Download2
- You can write anything around it, because it's a protoc1