BitWHIP
Infrastructure
screen sharing streaming
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353points
69comments
#147of 3,515 in 2024
Top 5%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
4 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Performance: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, exciting approach to low-latency sharing and WebRTC ingest
From 3 comments
As someone who setup a discord streaming like service to use alongside Mumble, this is very exciting. I couldn’t get anything involving webrtc working reliably, but the only…
kiririn on HNOoh, I’ve been looking for a good solution for this for years. Currently I use Parsec, but it’s closed source and not compatible with direct streaming from OBS etc. I’ll…
comex on HNAmazing work! The most I could achieve is ~40ms of video streams, although it was over a cellular network from a drone. But 30ms is a new milestone! I will see if I can repurpose…
tamimio on HN
Objections
Windows install fails with missing libclang and incomplete install script
From 2 comments
Couldn't get it to work in Windows 11. Was able to run the just install script only after editing it to use the full path to the 7zip binary. Said it installed correctly, but…
eigenvalue on HNLooks like the install script is incomplete and fails to check for and install all prerequisites.
warkdarrior on HN
Latency claims are hard to trust without context
From 2 comments
Always a bit sceprical when it comes to latency claims, especially in the sub 100ms space, but screen sharing 1-1 or video ingest should be a great use case for WebRTC WebRTC is…
Tielem on HNI wrote a blog post about how numbers like "30ms latency" are thrown around called "How to lie about latency": https://www.obe.tv/how-to-lie-about-latency/ It's left as an…
kierank on HN
Requests
Remote desktop control features
From 1 comment
Can this be used as remote desktop?
jmakov on HN
Wayland support
From 1 comment
What's the plan for Wayland compatibility? For a little while I was able to share a single app - but not the full desktop. Now I can't share anything from Ubuntu 24.04 when using…
eggsome on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Moonlight and VNC
From 2 comments
How does this compare with Moonlight?
Dwedit on HNQuestion, 30ms latency sounds amazing but how does it actually compare to "the standard" sharing tools for desktops, like do you know what the latency on say MSRDP is as…
cchance on HN
Why use just instead of make
From 2 comments
What is the reason for using "just" here? I understand people have their tooling preferences, but this looks like something that build.rs or a plain makefile could have handled?
daghamm on HNI was also wondering if anyone could chime in on advantages of using just. I'm familiar with makefiles, is there a particular advantage to using just over makefiles or is it…
mijoharas on HN
Alternatives named
vdo.ninja
From 2 comments
vdo.ninja is another excellent alternative but I'll definitely check this out!
synthoidzeta on HNIt definitely adds latency, not enough to be a bad experience. We have vdo.ninja today and Twitch's Stream Together. Those both do the 'dual encoding' and it is a good enough…
Sean-Der on HN
Parsec
From 1 comment
Ooh, I’ve been looking for a good solution for this for years. Currently I use Parsec, but it’s closed source and not compatible with direct streaming from OBS etc. I’ll…
comex on HN
Moonlight
From 1 comment
How does this compare with Moonlight?
Dwedit on HN
VNC
From 1 comment
Question, 30ms latency sounds amazing but how does it actually compare to "the standard" sharing tools for desktops, like do you know what the latency on say MSRDP is as…
cchance on HN