cdnbye/hlsjs-p2p-engine

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1073 stars · 175 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A JavaScript library that layers a WebRTC datachannel-based peer-to-peer network on top of hls.js, letting viewers share HLS video segments with each other for live and VOD streams. It acts as a P2P overlay CDN that reduces bandwidth costs and falls back seamlessly to normal server delivery when WebRTC is unavailable.

Use cases

• reduce video streaming CDN bandwidth costs with p2p
• scale live streaming to large audiences without a bigger CDN
• add peer-to-peer HLS streaming to an hls.js player
• integrate p2p video delivery with video.js or JWPlayer
• offload video traffic from origin server during viewership spikes
• deliver VOD streams via webrtc data channels

When to choose

• You already use hls.js or a popular HTML5 player and want P2P offload with minimal code changes
• You have audiences large enough that many peers are online simultaneously
• You want a hybrid setup that keeps your existing CDN, DRM, and encoding pipeline intact

When to avoid

• You need iOS Safari support in this engine (MediaSource unsupported there; use the ServiceWorker variant instead)
• You need fully self-hosted delivery - the tracker/signaling and dashboard are a paid hosted service
• Your audience is small or geographically sparse, so few peers can connect
• You require a permissive license - the repo has no license file

Facets

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p2p streaming webhook sdk media web-development networking frontend browser cross-platform webrtc hls p2p-cdn video-streaming hlsjs live-streaming vod mse cdn-offload video nodejs

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