Janus plugin videoroom : MCU or SFU ?

[r.d...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I'd like to know if the Janus videoroom plugin works as an SFU, MCU or can work as both. I know that the documentation is pretty straightforward on the subject ("This is a plugin implementing a videoconferencing SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit) for Janus, that is an audio/video router"), but in previous posts people talk about a video MCU plugin, and the file mainpage.dox mentions the janus.plugin.videoroom as "a plugin implementing a videoconferencing MCU for Janus, something like Licode". So I'm a bit confused...

Anyone here to help me ?

Thanks a lot,

Robin

[Lorenzo Miniero]

It's a SFU. The plugin was incorrectly called MCU at the beginning, hence the confusion.

L.

[r.d...@gmail.com]

Hi Lorenzo,

Thanks for the quick response !
Are there any plugins that you know of allowing to use Janus as an MCU ?

Robin

[Lorenzo Miniero]

The AudioBridge plugin is an audio MCU. There's no video MCU that I know of, right now. We've worked on some custom projects where we implemented a remote MCU the VideoRoom could send videos too, but one could also write a new video MCU plugin to do composition internally.

L.

[r.d...@gmail.com]

OK, thanks for the info :)

[r.d...@gmail.com]

One more question : do you plan to implement such a video MCU plugin in the near future ? :)

Robin

[Mirko Brankovic]

I have used FreeSwitch as Video MCU , pretty easy and straight fwd, but Video MCU is expensive for scaling

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 3:56 PM, <r.d...@gmail.com> wrote:

One more question : do you plan to implement such a video MCU plugin in the near future ? :)

Robin

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Regards,

Mirko

[Lorenzo Miniero]

It would be quite the task, so unless someone sponsors such an effort, nope, not in our plans.

L.

[r.d...@gmail.com]

It would be quite the task, so unless someone sponsors such an effort, nope, not in our plans.

L.

 

Yup, agreed. Thanks again for the quick answers Lorenzo! Keep up the good work!!

I have used FreeSwitch as Video MCU , pretty easy and straight fwd, but Video MCU is expensive for scaling
 

Thanks Mike, will have a look at it!