Peer-to-Peer 1080p live streaming using WebRTC/Alternative?

Question

I've been experimenting with WebRTC and its ability to stream video/audio using p2p, however I've found that it's not able to stream any resolutions > 720p. Using getUserMedia() I'm able to capture the local webcam in 1080p, but it seems to fail at encoding/decoding in 1080p (I'm not sure which it is) and the client-side displays the video in 1280x720.

There are a few bug reports regarding this issue: Here and here.

Is there a way I can capture the webcam using getUserMedia(), encode the video myself in 1080p and still use WebRTC for its peer-to-peer capabilities?

Basically I'm trying to achieve the same sort of thing shown in this video. That is, live streaming a video and sharing it with other viewers so there's significantly less server/broadcaster bandwidth used. WebRTC seemed the obvious choice for this.

Are there any alternative solutions, besides waiting for the WebRTC bug to be fixed? Thanks.

Answer 1

This issue was resolved on the tickets you posted: https://code.google.com/p/webrtc/issues/detail?id=1750

Which points to this url for verification.