Livekit

About Livekit

LiveKit is a realtime platform that enables developers to build video, voice, and data capabilities into their applications. Building on WebRTC, it supports a broad range of frontend and backend platforms. LiveKit's architecture is composed of several key components that enable real-time communication and media streaming. The core component is the LiveKit Server, which acts as a Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) and handles signaling, media processing, and other real-time communication tasks. To simplify integration, LiveKit provides a range of SDKs for web, native, and backend environments, abstracting the complexities of WebRTC. Additionally, Egress enables the recording or live streaming of rooms and individual participant tracks, while Ingress allows external streams, such as RTMP and WHIP, to be ingested into LiveKit rooms. For building intelligent, real-time applications, LiveKit also features AI Agents, a server-side framework for integrating AI capabilities. Lastly, the CLI tool helps manage LiveKit services, whether they are cloud-hosted or self-hosted. This modular approach makes it easier to implement robust, scalable, real-time communication solutions.