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Is there any limit for number of participants in a room of group type in Twilio Video API? In the documentation is specified a limit for peer-to-peer type but said nothing about group type rooms.
UPDATE: Twilio mentioned limit for 50 participants per room in the article in their blog. It looks like a very small number. Is it still the same?
https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/05/announcing-programmable-video-group-rooms.html
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Connect to a Room. Call connect to connect to a Room from your web application. Once connected, you can send and receive audio and video streams with other Participants who are connected to the Room. const { connect } = require('twilio-video'); connect('$TOKEN', { name:'my-new-room' }).
Overview. The Programmable Video Rooms resource represents a communications session among multiple endpoints using one of Twilio's Programmable Video SDKs. Connected users (Participants) can share video and audio Tracks with the Room, and receive video and audio Tracks from other Participants in the Room.
Twilio Video is a programmable real-time communications platform that allows you to add video chat functionality to your web, iOS, and Android applications. The platform provides APIs, SDKs, and helper tools to capture, distribute, record, and render high quality audio and video applications.
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The maximum number of participants in a group room in Twilio Video is 50. In a peer to peer room, it is 10.
Twilio Video is intended for group chats, not for broadcasting or other one to many use cases.
When you use a peer to peer room in Twilio Video, each peer has to send their media stream to each other peer in the room and receive streams from all other peers. This is why the limit is just 10.
When you use a group room in Twilio Video, each participant sends their stream to a central server that mixes the video of all the participants and sends one stream back. In this case, the server needs to do more work as each participant joins, the maximum is 50.
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