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openvidu
===

Visit [openvidu.io](https://openvidu.io)

## What is OpenVidu?

OpenVidu is a self-hosted real-time video and audio stack, built on top of
[LiveKit](https://livekit.io) and [mediasoup](https://mediasoup.org), and developed by a team
with over a decade of experience building WebRTC systems. It ships as two products:

### OpenVidu Meet

**[OpenVidu Meet](https://openvidu.io/latest/meet/)** is a ready-to-use, self-hosted video
conferencing application: an open-source alternative to Zoom, Google Meet and Jitsi Meet.

**Using it requires no code.** You deploy it and it works — rooms, recordings, chat, screen
sharing and moderation included. It is also highly customizable: brand it with your own name,
logo and colours, and choose which features each participant gets.

<a href="https://openvidu.io/latest/meet/"><img src="docs/images/openvidu-meet-app.jpg" alt="The OpenVidu Meet application: a video meeting with two participants, the self-view, and the toolbar with camera, microphone, screen sharing, captions and recording controls" width="560"></a>

**With minimal effort it embeds into your own application**, through an `<iframe>` or the
OpenVidu Meet **web component**, and is driven from your backend with a REST API and webhooks:

<a href="https://openvidu.io/latest/meet/embedded/intro/"><img src="https://openvidu.io/latest/assets/images/meet/embedded/use-cases/support-meeting.png" alt="OpenVidu Meet embedded inside a customer support web application: a two-participant video call with recording, screen sharing, chat and call controls, surrounded by the host application's own interface" width="560"></a>

### OpenVidu Platform

**[OpenVidu Platform](https://openvidu.io/latest/docs/)** is the programmable client and server
SDKs for building custom WebRTC applications with low-level control over media, on top of
LiveKit and mediasoup. It is **API-compatible with LiveKit**: any LiveKit client/server SDK
works unchanged.

### Both products

- **Self-hosted only**: deploy them on your own infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle,
  DigitalOcean, on-premises). There is no hosted/SaaS tier: OpenVidu PRO is a paid, self-hosted
  edition, and the OpenVidu team offers
  [support and consultancy](https://openvidu.io/support/).
- Advanced media features: recording, RTMP/streaming egress, AI agents (transcription,
  translation), virtual backgrounds, and more.

## Getting started

- 📖 [Documentation](https://openvidu.io/latest/docs/)
- 🚀 [Try it locally](https://github.com/OpenVidu/openvidu-local-deployment)
- 💻 [Tutorials](https://github.com/OpenVidu/openvidu-tutorials)
- 🎥 [OpenVidu Meet](https://openvidu.io/latest/meet/) — the ready-to-use video conferencing app ([source](https://github.com/OpenVidu/openvidu-meet))

## Community Forum

Visit [OpenVidu Community Forum](https://openvidu.discourse.group/)

[OpenViduLogo]: https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5daba1d43042f2e4e85849733c8e5702?s=120

## Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. 
<a href="https://github.com/OpenVidu/openvidu/contributors"><img src="https://opencollective.com/openvidu/contributors.svg?width=890&button=false" /></a>


## Backers

Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [[Become a backer](https://opencollective.com/openvidu#backer)]

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## Acknowledgments

OpenVidu has been supported under project "CPP2021-008720 NewGenVidu: An elastic, user-friendly and privacy-friendly videoconferencing platform", funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union-NextGenerationEU/PRTR.

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