rtc-everywhere

What is this?

Sick of the incompatible mess of vendor prefixes, adapters, plugins, extensions, and native modules? rtc-everywhere gives you spec-compliant WebRTC in as many environments as possible, all with the same simple code.

Supported Environments

💻 Desktop

• Chrome
• Firefox
• MS Edge [Partial]
  • No data channels
• Safari 7+
  • Requires Temasys Plugin
• Internet Explorer 9+ [In Progress]
  • Requires Temasys Plugin

📱 Mobile

• Android 5+
• Cordova iOS
  • Requires cordova-iosrtc
• Cordova Android
  • Requires cordova-crosswalk
• react-native iOS/Android [In Progress]
  • Requires react-native-webrtc

Other

• Node.js 0.10+ (via wrtc) [In Progress]

Getting Started

npm install rtc-everywhere --save

var rtc = require('rtc-everywhere')();
 
// Available:
// rtc.RTCPeerConnection
// rtc.RTCIceCandidate
// rtc.RTCSessionDescription
// rtc.getUserMedia
// rtc.attachStream(stream, videoElement)

🔮 Want a more detailed example that uses these functions? Check out the loopback stream example!

API

RTCPeerConnection

Exactly the same as the specification. See the Specification Documentation!

RTCIceCandidate

Exactly the same as the specification. See the Specification Documentation!

RTCSessionDescription

Exactly the same as the specification. See the Specification Documentation!

getUserMedia(constraints, cb)

Similar to the specification, but slightly adjusted to have an easier API.

Modifications

• constraints is optional (makes things easier)

  • Defaults to {video: true, audio: true}

• cb is a node-style error first callback

// these are the same thing
rtc.getUserMedia(function(err, stream){});
rtc.getUserMedia({video: true, audio: true}, function(err, stream){});

attachStream(stream, element)

• Attaches a stream to a given video element
• Returns the element the video was attached to
• In IE and Safari, the video element will be replaced by an object element
  • Elements will not be replaced or modified unless they exist on the DOM
  • Regardless of replacement, the new object element will be returned

Related Libraries

• simple-peer
• blob-util