uvgRTP

uvgRTP is an RTP library written in C++ with a focus on usability and efficiency. It features a very intuitive and easy-to-use API, built-in support for HEVC, AVC, Opus, SRTP and ZRTP. In ideal conditions it is able to reach a goodput of 600 MB/s for HEVC stream.

uvgRTP is licensed under the permissive BSD 2-Clause License

For SRTP/ZRTP support, uvgRTP uses Crypto++

Supported specifications:

• RFC 3350: RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
• RFC 7798: RTP Payload Format for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)
• RFC 6184: RTP Payload Format for H.264 Video
• RFC 7587: RTP Payload Format for the Opus Speech and Audio Codec
• RFC 3711: The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)
• RFC 6189: ZRTP: Media Path Key Agreement for Unicast Secure RTP
• Draft: RTP Payload Format for Versatile Video Coding (VVC)

Based on Marko Viitanen's fRTPlib

Notable features

• Builtin support for:
  • AVC
  • HEVC
  • Opus
  • SRTP/ZRTP
• Preliminary VVC support
• Generic interface for custom media types
• UDP hole punching
• Simple API
• Permissive license

Building and linking

See BUILDING.md for instructions on how to build and use uvgRTP

Documentation and examples

See documentation and examples to get a better understanding of uvgRTP

Paper

Please cite this paper for uvgRTP:

A. Altonen, J. Räsänen, J. Laitinen, M. Viitanen, and J. Vanne, “Open-Source RTP Library for High-Speed 4K HEVC Video Streaming”, in Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Tampere, Finland, Sept. 2020.