I'm not familiar with red5 but it seems that webRTC does a decent job on video and text chat with the browser doing the heavy lifting in terms of encryption and permissions. Am I missing something?
You can set up red5 in a few minutes, at most hours. Replicating a similar setup with something like Janus is a lot more complicated, and there is no HTML5 equivalent
Plus webrtc is proving to be a resource hog every time, and a lot more complicated to set up in an app (separate media / data stream etc). flash/red5 works literally out of the package.
that misses the point. If its slow and laggy, user is not going to use it and laptops are going to become portable heaters. This is exactly what webRTC does
> obviously it's going to improve over time
When? webrtc is like 10 years old. How long we have to wait to go back to 1999?
Well, 8 from initial release. 18 months from first stable release.
Far as I understand it, lag and overheating are hardware/network problems. Considering the amount of development going into both of them, that situation is only going to improve but of course I don't have a roadmap.
FWIW I haven't noticed problems with either and I don't have a mind blowing setup.
I look at what browsers are doing now compared to 1999, there's no way I'd want to go back
