Roc Streaming

Roc is a toolkit for real-time media streaming over the network.

Basically, Roc is a network transport, highly specialized for the real-time streaming use case. The user writes the stream to the one end and reads it from another end, and Roc deals with all the complexity of the task of delivering data in time and with no loss. Encoding, decoding, adjusting rates, restoring losses – all these are performed transparently under the hood.

The project is conceived as a swiss army knife for real-time streaming. It is designed to support a variety of network protocols, encodings, FEC schemes, and related features. The user can build custom configurations dedicated for specific use cases and choose an appropriate compromise between the quality, robustness, bandwidth, and compatibility issues.

Note that the project is still at an early stage of development, and the list of the supported features is not very long. But there’s more to come, of course. Contributions are also welcome!