If I self host some kind of private video chat service, is the video data transferred direct from connected peer to peer? Does it go through the self hosted service instance? Or does that depend on which video server is used?

  • Andrius Štikonas
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    41 year ago

    Of course it depends on what software you are using.

    Though as a rule of thumb, peers try to connect directly. That’s not always possible due to firewalls/NATs, so often TURN servers are used as intermediary.