Meta moves Instagram Live video ingest to Media over QUIC on iOS and Android
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Meta says Instagram Live now uses Media over QUIC (MoQ), an open IETF transport protocol, for live video ingest on iOS and Android, replacing its in-house RUSH protocol.
The client-side MoQ publisher is built on the open-source moxygen library, and a temporary edge layer translates MoQ frames to RUSH so the existing backend keeps working.
Meta says the MoQ path matched RUSH on the streaming-quality and reliability measures used for the rollout. It plans to extend MoQ to end-to-end live delivery and playback, according to its engineering blog post.
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AIMeta says it has begun deploying Media over QUIC (MoQ), an open IETF protocol, for live video ingest on Instagram Live on iOS and Android. It replaced the in-house RUSH protocol with a client-side MoQ publisher built on the open-source moxygen library, and a temporary edge layer translates MoQ frames to RUSH for the existing backend. The rollout matched RUSH on streaming-quality and reliability measures, and Meta says it plans to extend MoQ to end-to-end live delivery and playback.
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