Skype vs Mediasoup: What are the differences?
What is Skype? Voice calls, instant messaging, file transfer, and video conferencing. Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.
What is Mediasoup? Cutting Edge WebRTC Video Conferencing. Mediasoup and its client side libraries provide a super low level API. They are intended to enable different use cases and scenarios, without any constraint or assumption. Some of these use cases are: Group video chat applications,
One-to-many (or few-to-many) broadcasting applications in real-time, and RTP streaming.
Skype and Mediasoup belong to "Web and Video Conferencing" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Skype are:
- Calling- Make free Skype to Skype calls or call mobiles and landlines home and abroad at low rates.
- Video- Catch up face to face or get a whole group together on a video call.
- Messaging- You're always in the loop with instant messaging, voice messaging and sending texts.
On the other hand, Mediasoup provides the following key features:
- Simulcast and SVC support
- Congestion control
- Sender and receiver bandwidth estimation with spatial/temporal layers distribution algorithm
