Omniroom

Simple whip broadcast server and client made with Rust
A french note I wrote to explain what I plan with this project

Performances

Latency with OBS as virtual webcam with only a pipewiresrc source and piped in gstreamer with gst-launch: 80ms
Latency with the same but piped through encoder and decoder (x264) on the same machine: 140ms
Latency by using Omniroom: 200ms

Latency around 200ms with meetecho/simple-whip-client as a client OBS as a virtual webcam on a local network.

Workspace architecture

The project contains:

• a server part that broadcasts a WHIP stream from a producer to consumers (it also serves the web client)
• a client that takes a video device (ex: /dev/video0) as source and streams it over WHIP

Todo

• Trickle ICE
• Client for better IP Handling and video handling (maybe even lowering latency even more)
• Web UI
• Unit tests
• Chat with data channel (maybe ?)