Can i send a stream other then video & voice?

[jimmywarting]

Chrome v52 brings ReadableStream constructor to the table. It would be cool if it would be possible to send a blob/file as a readableStream. I have written a blob stream reader recently. And now i want to send it over webrtc. (from browser to the server - using electron-webrtc)

There is also this alternative blob reader but it uses node's stream

var blobStream = new ReadableStream({...}); // read blob as chunks
var peer2 = new SimplePeer({ stream: blobStream })

[yocontra]

Have you tried sending the chunks over an RTC data stream?

[jimmywarting]

@contra no, i haven't tried that yet, not sure how i would handle back pressure & queuing and also larger files

I want to have the RTC data stream more as a communication layer and be able to send a blob in a separate stream that can handle backpressure and is also sent it in order.
I think the blobStream should also close when the file has sent everything.

[yocontra]

@jimmywarting simple-peer exposes data channels as a duplex stream so it should handle your case (back pressure). You can open as many data channels as you want, one for files and one for communication.

[yocontra]

On second look the API for creating multiple data channels seems a little tricky to use.

@feross How do you feel about making multiple data channels part of the API?

[feross]

@jimmywarting The stream option is for media streams, like from a microphone or webcam. What you want is the data channel. As @contra said, simple-peer instances are node.js style duplex streams, so you should not pass a stream option.

@contra I'm open to supporting multiple data channels as part of the API if we can do it in a backwards-compatible way. There was discussion about this before in #19.