Pion is a modern stack for web real-time communication. It works almost everywhere thanks to Go. Ship to Mobile, Desktop, Servers and WASM all with one code base.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- PeerConnection API
- Go implementation of webrtc-pc and webrtc-stats
- DataChannels
- Send/Receive audio and video
- Renegotiation
- Plan-B and Unified Plan
- SettingEngine for Pion specific extensions
- Connectivity
- Full ICE Agent
- ICE Restart
- Trickle ICE
- STUN
- TURN (UDP, TCP, DTLS and TLS)
- mDNS candidates
- DataChannels
- Ordered/Unordered
- Lossy/Lossless
- Media
- API with direct RTP/RTCP access
- Opus, PCM, H264, VP8 and VP9 packetizer
- API also allows developer to pass their own packetizer
- IVF, Ogg, H264 and Matroska provided for easy sending and saving
- getUserMedia implementation (Requires Cgo)
- Easy integration with x264, libvpx, GStreamer and ffmpeg.
- Simulcast
- SVC
- NACK
- Sender/Receiver Reports
- Transport Wide Congestion Control Feedback
- Bandwidth Estimation
- Security:
- TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 and TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA for DTLS v1.2
- SRTP_AEAD_AES_256_GCM and SRTP_AES128_CM_HMAC_SHA1_80 for SRTP
- Hardware acceleration available for GCM suites
- Pure Go:
- No Cgo usage
- Wide platform support
- Linux, FreeBSD, Android, iOS macOS, and Windows.
- iOS, Android
- WASM
- 386, amd64, arm, mips, ppc64
- Easy to build Numbers generated on Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz
- Time to build examples/play-from-disk – 0.66s user 0.20s system 306% cpu 0.279 total
- Time to run entire test suite – 25.60s user 9.40s system 45% cpu 1:16.69 total
- Tools to measure performance provided
Website: pion.ly
Support:
Developer: The Pion community
License: MIT License
Pion is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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