Best way to run low-latency live streams for online poker or sports betting?
We’re building a live poker / sports betting streaming setup and need very low latency so viewers and players see the action in real time. We’ve been testing https://www.red5.net/webrtc/, which uses WebRTC for sub-second live streaming and supports RTMP and SRT ingest from encoders. Has anyone here used Red5 Pro or a similar WebRTC streaming server for live poker tables, casino games, or in-play betting feeds? Curious how others are handling latency, scale, and stream security.
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For more robust connections you may want to go directly with web sockets. Javascript provides native support for web sockets and gets around any plug ins or other issues inherent in connectivity with another layer. I'm guessing you may need to write additional code to supplant what WebRTC provides. But it is your code, not somebody else's so you choose how to maintain it.
IOS apps support web sockets natively. Android apps require a 3rd party library.
FWIW Kalshi uses web sockets.
