# mediasoup v3
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## Website and Documentation
* [mediasoup.org][mediasoup-website]
## Support Forum
* [mediasoup.discourse.group][mediasoup-discourse]
## Design Goals
mediasoup and its client side libraries are designed to accomplish with the following goals:
* Be a [SFU](https://webrtcglossary.com/sfu/) (Selective Forwarding Unit).
* Support both WebRTC and plain RTP input and output.
* Be a Node.js module/Rust crate in server side.
* Be a tiny JavaScript and C++ libraries in client side.
* Be minimalist: just handle the media layer.
* Be signaling agnostic: do not mandate any signaling protocol.
* Be super low level API.
* Support all existing WebRTC endpoints.
* Enable integration with well known multimedia libraries/tools.
## Architecture
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## Use Cases
mediasoup and its client side libraries provide a super low level API. They are intended to enable different use cases and scenarios, without any constraint or assumption. Some of these use cases are:
* Group video chat applications.
* One-to-many (or few-to-many) broadcasting applications in real-time.
* RTP streaming.
## Features
* ECMAScript 6/Idiomatic Rust low level API.
* Multi-stream: multiple audio/video streams over a single ICE + DTLS transport.
* IPv6 ready.
* ICE / DTLS / RTP / RTCP over UDP and TCP.
* Simulcast and SVC support.
* Congestion control.
* Sender and receiver bandwidth estimation with spatial/temporal layers distribution algorithm.
* Data message exchange (via WebRTC DataChannels, SCTP over plain UDP, and direct termination in Node.js/Rust).
* Extremely powerful (media worker thread/subprocess coded in C++ on top of [libuv](https://libuv.org)).
## Demo Online
[![][mediasoup-demo-screenshot]][mediasoup-demo]
Try it at [v3demo.mediasoup.org](https://v3demo.mediasoup.org) ([source code](https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup-demo)).
## Authors
* Iñaki Baz Castillo [[website](https://inakibaz.me)|[github](https://github.com/ibc/)]
* José Luis Millán [[github](https://github.com/jmillan/)]
## Sponsor
You can support mediasoup by [sponsoring][sponsor] it. Thanks!
## License
[ISC](./LICENSE)
[mediasoup-banner]: /art/mediasoup-banner.png
[mediasoup-website]: https://mediasoup.org
[mediasoup-discourse]: https://mediasoup.discourse.group
[npm-shield-mediasoup]: https://img.shields.io/npm/v/mediasoup.svg
[npm-mediasoup]: https://npmjs.org/package/mediasoup
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[crates-mediasoup]: https://crates.io/crates/mediasoup
[github-actions-shield-mediasoup-node]: https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup/actions/workflows/mediasoup-node.yaml/badge.svg
[github-actions-mediasoup-node]: https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup/actions/workflows/mediasoup-node.yaml
[github-actions-shield-mediasoup-worker]: https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup/actions/workflows/mediasoup-worker.yaml/badge.svg
[github-actions-mediasoup-worker]: https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup/actions/workflows/mediasoup-worker.yaml
[github-actions-shield-mediasoup-rust]: https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup/actions/workflows/mediasoup-rust.yaml/badge.svg
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[codacy-grade-shield-mediasoup]: https://img.shields.io/codacy/grade/3c8b9efc83674b6189707ab4188cfb2b.svg
[codacy-grade-mediasoup]: https://www.codacy.com/app/versatica/mediasoup
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[opencollective-mediasoup]: https://opencollective.com/mediasoup/
[sponsor]: https://mediasoup.org/sponsor/
[mediasoup-architecture]: /art/mediasoup-v3-architecture-01.svg
[mediasoup-demo-screenshot]: /art/mediasoup-v3.png
[mediasoup-demo]: https://v3demo.mediasoup.org