Chatting feature

[P G]

Hello,

Do your example tutorials use WEBRTC datachannel for texting between users or another websocket connection? 

I would like to learn more about the signaling part and how it is designed too to port it to other platforms

Thank you

[Pablo]

Hi,

Currently we are not using data channels WebRTC capabilities. Every browser-server/server-browser communication that is not a WebRTC connection is made through a single WebSocket connection.

[P G]

Thank you for your Reply.

So mainly you are using the RTCPeer and GetMediastream only from Webrtc. For example, client1 has getmediastream, creates a rtcpeerconnection to OV, OV creates a getmediastream object on server side, and a server side rtcpeerconnection  and forwards the received data client2 right? OV acts like a router in this case and as a SFU

[Pablo]

Yes, OpenVidu Server side acts as a SFU, sending certain WebRTC media streams (those sent by Publishers) to specific clients (Subscribers).