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Is it possible to implement one-to-many WebRTC video room using Twilio Video API? One publisher and many subscribers. Webinar.

boxx
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  • As I've said in my [answer to your other question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47059947/is-there-any-limit-for-number-of-participants-in-a-room-in-twilio-video-api), Twilio Video is not built for broadcasting or webinars. I think you're looking for a different solution here. – philnash Nov 02 '17 at 00:03
  • Yes it is. You can see here that Twilio can support up to 50 participants: https://www.twilio.com/video Our experience so far has been that if you're trying to connect a larger number of participants, particularly if they have variable internet connections and in different regional zone. – LearnCube Jun 22 '18 at 04:06

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Do you mean a group room instead of a peer-to-peer room? This is possible, and they announced in May'17 an increase in the number of users per room up to 50.

In their documentation and tutorials there is an example on how to start a group room and how to configure it. See this link. You can see how to implement it on different languages. :)

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So I don't think you can create the room specifying a user id who would be the presenter, and then automatically all others who join would be just spectators.

Now, when joining a room with Video.connect, you can specify options for audio and video, like:

var Video = require('twilio-video');

// Connect to the Room with just audio
Video.connect('my-token', {
  name: 'my-room-name',
  audio: true
});

You can see more on how to join and the options you can specify here. So you could always wrap this in your code, and force every other viewer to not send video.

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  • Group type makes many-to-many room as far as I see. Any participant can send and/or receive audio/video streams. I'm wondering if there a way to limit (on server-side) the group to one and only one sender-participant and many-participants who can just receive strems? – boxx Nov 01 '17 at 17:43
  • Alright, edited my answer with some stuff you could do to achieve what you want. Other than that, I don't think they support what you want to achieve with just passing options when creating the room. – elbecita Nov 01 '17 at 20:07
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philnash answered in the related topic that it's impossible at the moment.

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