Important Note About 8.0.0 Release

Red5 Pro SDK has been published on NPM!

While currently not open source, the SDK build has been published to NPM to allow you to integrate into your projects with greater ease and dependency management.

Install as script in HTML page

<script src="https://unpkg.com/red5pro-webrtc-sdk@latest/red5pro-sdk.min.js"></script>

… or if you know the version:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/red5pro-webrtc-sdk@8.0.0/red5pro-sdk.min.js"></script>

Install using npm or yarn for you browser-based projects

npm install --save-dev red5pro-webrtc-sdk

yarn install --dev red5pro-webrtc-sdk

Usage

All members exposed on the otherwise global window.red5prosdk if loading as a script on an HTML page are importable from the red5pro-webrtc-sdk module:

publisher-example.js

import { RTCPublisher } from 'red5pro-webrtc-sdk'

Updates and Modifications in 8.0.0

The 8.0.0 release of the Red5 Pro HTML SDK includes the ability for WebRTC based clients – RTCPublisher and RTCSubscriber – to use WebSockets only for signaling purposes. Once they have finished their negotiation process and have begun broadcasting or consuming a stream, repsectively, they will open a RTCDataChannel connection and close the underlying WebSocket used for signaling.

The benefit of closing the WebSocket and switching to a RTCDataChannel after signaling is complete is cutting down on the number of open socket connections to the server; in a Stream Manager Proxy scenario, this can be a significant benefit as the Proxy is no longer needed to keep alive while the stream is being delivered to the Origin(s) or from the Edge(s).

Configuration

The initialization configuration object for the RTCPublisher and RTCSubscriber have the following attribute that flags whether to use the WebSocket only as a signaling connection:

• signalingSocketOnly

If true, the RTCPublisher and RTCSubscriber will use a WebSocket to establish an RTCPeerConnection and once established, will switch over to using a RTCDataChannel to do any event handling and futher communication with the server. It is set to true, by default.

Further communication could be calling the Mute API for RTCPublisher and Standby API for RTCSubscriber.

By setting signalingSocketOnly to true the switch works seemlessly under the hood, allowing you – as a developer – to not care about how to switch the message transport layers explicitly.

An additional initialization configuration is also available as it relates to the switch to RTCDataChannel after signalling is complete:

• dataChannelConfiguration

By default, the dataChannelConfiguration has the following structure and declaration:

dataChannelConfiguration = {
  name: 'red5pro'
}

The name value will be used in the underlying RTCDataChannel created from the RTCPeerConnection.

It should be noted that any Red5ProSharedObject instances created using an underlying connection through a RTCPublisher or RTCSubscriber will be switched over to using RTCDataChannel for communication.

Access

Once the RTCDataChannel has been switched to from the WebSocket, you can access the instance from RTCPublisher and RTCSubsciber by calling the following:

+ getDataChannel()

The will return the actual underlying RTCDataChannel instance used in communication.

Events

The following events have been added to the RTCPublisher and RTCSubscriber that can be listened to: