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awslabs / amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-js

JS SDK for interfacing with the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Signaling Service.
https://awslabs.github.io/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-js/examples/index.html
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Limitation on number of viewers for group video chat #125

Closed baj84 closed 2 years ago

baj84 commented 3 years ago

We are looking for a way to allow for a group video chat of hundreds of users simultaneously.

Is this something that Kinesis would allow us to do? I read that there is a maximum of 10 connected viewers.

We are currently using Twilio that has a hard 50 participant limit.

Thanks!

umarF commented 3 years ago

Well I wanted to have channels with possibility to have 250 viewers but AWS allocated only 30 for now. It is a soft limit but it can be increased based on use case. What they state is the following:

"The service team informed that Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC is not suitable for building applications that require multiple viewers because it only support Peer-to-Peer streaming which does not scale to a multi viewer scenario."

This basically becomes a dead end for me, I am using openvidu pro but in order to make some custom solution, there needs to be flexibly of using N number of viewers per channel. They should look into it seriously otherwise there is not much use case for this feature apart from streaming from security cameras or 1 to 1 meeting.

niyatim23 commented 2 years ago

Closing assuming answered, feel free to reopen in case of any further questions/issues.