Media over QUIC is a live media protocol powered by QUIC: a super-charged TCP/UDP replacement that powers HTTP/3. It’s being standardized by the IETF and your favorite big tech companies such as Google, Cloudflare, Cisco, Meta, Akamai, etc (and me ofc).

Our goal is to replace WebRTC, HLS/DASH, and RTMP/SRT with one generic/extensible protocol. Supports any latency, any scale, and any content (not just media!).

Features

• Real-time Latency: Stay live by skipping less important data during congestion.
• Massive Scale: Fan out via a managed CDN and/or self-hosted moq-relay.
• Live Discovery: Gossips broadcasts and the shortest route without a central authority.
• Cheap and Lazy: Nothing is transmitted (or encoded!) until a viewer requests it.
• Web Support: Typescript utilizing WebTransport, WebCodecs, and WebAudio.
• Native Support: Rust, plus C, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and Go bindings.
• Integrations: GStreamer, OBS, FFmpeg, CLI, and more!

Use Cases

• Distribution: Scalable and on-demand, plus HLS compatibility. Think HTTP but live.
• Contribution: Dynamic origins and failover, plus TS/SRT compatibility.
• Robotics: Real-time teleoperation with custom telemetry, plus WebRTC compatibility.
• Conferencing: Web support and dynamic peer discovery. P2P for native apps.

Enough pondering, try the demos already. There’s even a gameboy emulator. Don’t pretend like you’re not excited.

*Standards

This website uses moq-lite, a subset of the official moq-transport draft. moq-lite is forwards compatible with moq-transport (draft-14+) and will work with any MoQ CDN. The principles behind MoQ are fantastic, but standards are SLOW and involve too much arguing/bloat. My goal is to get MoQ in production now, even if it’s not a standard yet.

More Stuff

• The blog if you’re a fan of hot takes.
• The docs and Github if you’re a nerd.
• The discord if you want to chat with me or other unhinged developers.
• The demos if you seriously got this far without clicking on a link.
• The pro offering if you want to pay me for hosting lul.

Contributions are welcome, of course. But also feel free to just yoink the code, fork it, and make it your own. If you’re using some flavor of MoQ in the wild, or would like some help/advice, I’d love to hear about it: me@kixel.me