LiveKit is a project that provides scalable, multi-user conferencing based on WebRTC. It’s designed to provide everything you need to build real-time video audio data capabilities in your applications.
It makes it easy to integrate audio, video, text, data, and AI models while offering scalable realtime infrastructure built on top of WebRTC.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Scalable, distributed WebRTC SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit).
- Modern, full-featured client SDKs.
- Built for production, supports JWT authentication.
- Robust networking and connectivity, UDP/TCP/TURN.
- Easy to deploy: single binary, Docker or Kubernetes.
- Advanced features including:
- speaker detection.
- simulcast.
- end-to-end optimizations.
- selective subscription.
- moderation APIs.
- end-to-end encryption.
- SVC codecs (VP9, AV1).
- webhooks.
- distributed and multi-region.
Website: github.com/livekit/livekit
Support:
Developer: LiveKit
License: Apache License 2.0
LiveKit is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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