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I want to create a WebRTC peer that's a simple listener/recorder with no "presentation" component (i.e., no HTML/CSS).
If this is possible, (with the WebRTC JavaScript APIs), please tell me what standalone JavaScript engine I can use (I'm thinking of installing a standalone V8 engine).
Thank you.
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In webRTC, communication happens to be in P2P connection, rather than the client-server connection. The connection is equally distributed among the two communicating agents through their transport addresses.
WebRTC uses JavaScript, APIs and Hypertext Markup Language to embed communications technologies within web browsers. It is designed to make audio, video and data communication between browsers user-friendly and easy to implement. WebRTC works with most major web browsers.
If you want to create any webrtc -based client application without using a browser , the native libraries are the way to go. No silly standalone javascript engine necessary.
WebRTC is designed to work peer-to-peer, so users can connect by the most direct route possible. However, WebRTC is built to cope with real-world networking: client applications need to traverse NAT gateways and firewalls, and peer to peer networking needs fallbacks in case direct connection fails.
Very late answer, but I think it's good to re-evaluate this question, because a lot has changed since this question was asked.
I assume this question was asked because there was no native support for webrtc yet at the time. But there is now. Android, iOS, Windows, Linux and OSX all support native webrtc libraries now.
The native libraries can be used to create a peerconnection and setup a stream to another client (cross-platform). If you want to create any webrtc-based client application without using a browser, the native libraries are the way to go. No silly standalone javascript engine necessary.
Read more here
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I think you could use a node.js server to do so. There's a npm package bringing webrtc capabilites to nodejs : node-webrtc.
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You could do this with headless chrome. Chrome of course has full WebRTC support, but can be started in "headless" mode, and then interacted with via the command line or their control interface.
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The best way to do this right now is to create a node-webkit application. The unified node + browser context gives you the best of all worlds.
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