We are using Intel CS for WebRTC framework to develop our video conferencing platform. We can have any number of participants in a single video call either in SFU mode or Mixing mode. It all depends on your use cases, UI design, hardware resources. Intel supports H.264 video hardware acceleration also, if you use Intel server with UHD graphics. Also, it provides excellent support to develop native conferencing applications on Android, and iOS platforms. Of course, there are some issues also with Intel WebRTC framework. One of the major issue is, community support is very very less. Thank you.

You will need to figure out on your own which one performs best for your needs. There are tools on the market to conduct such tests, including https://testrtc.com where I am a cofounder (I can’t really tell you the answer simply because I don’t know it – our focus as a company isn’t to compare media servers but to assist clients in testing and monitoring).

As for going to 30 participants and more, I just released an ebook on that: https://webrtccourse.com/product/scale-webrtc-group-call/

thanks

Vuyiswa,

For media servers look at Jitsi, Janus and mediasoup these days. Not sure about their Windows support, but they probably have solutions for that.

For STUN/TURN use coturn.

Xamarin – I am not an expert on that, so don’t have an out of the box answer for you for this one.

Nice basic article. i have a question .

1) A Media server (open source) can they run on a Windows Server
2) Do you have any Stun/Turn Server software (Open Source) that can run on Windows Servers
3)I am using Xamarin. Can you direct me to an already existing wrapper for Xamarin

Thanks

Sudhi,

Check the outsourcing vendors on the https://webrtcindex.com – some of them might be offering customization/integration for Kurento.

Really appreciate your response here.

Br, Sudhi

Good luck and be sure to update me on your findings – I am really interested in hearing feedback from developers on the various media server alternatives out there.

Thanks for the prompt reply Tsahi. I looked at Kurento during the weekend while it appears as though work has started on it again after almost a year of inactivity. The tutorial repos for the Javascript still appears dated to 6.6.2 as against the current 6.7.* . Moreso it appears to be an overkill for our particular use case though. I think I’ll peruse mediasoup as it appears more lightweight and better suited for our use case. Thanks again.

Kurento has everything in a box, which means it is very generic in nature. It also wasn’t really updated in the past year that much, although things should be improving now.

As for mediasoup, it is still new with a small team behind it and a small ecosystem. I know of projects who’ve opted for using it, though not about their current status.