awslabs/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c
FreeAmazon Kinesis Video Streams Webrtc SDK is for developers to install and customize realtime communication between devices and enable secure streaming of video, audio to Kinesis Video Streams.
About awslabs/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams C WebRTC SDK is a pure C library that enables real-time communication between devices and secure streaming of video and audio to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. It provides a signaling client, supports multiple codecs (VP8, H264, Opus, G.711 PCM), includes STUN/TURN support, and offers a developer-controlled media pipeline with raw media input/output callbacks. The SDK is portable across Linux/MacOS, supports x64 and ARM architectures, and has a small library footprint under 200KB. It also includes a new feature to ingest media into Kinesis Video Streams for WebRTC storage.
Key Features
Pros & Cons
- Open source with permissive Apache 2.0 license
- Small library footprint suitable for embedded and edge devices
- Supports popular codecs and standard WebRTC features like DataChannels and NACKs
- Portable across multiple platforms and architectures
- Includes signaling client and STUN/TURN for robust connectivity
- New storage feature enables media ingestion into KVS
- Requires C development expertise and manual compilation
- Tied to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams as the only backend
- No built-in user interface; requires application-level integration
- Documentation primarily limited to GitHub README