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24 alternatives to Chaos Monkey but for Audio Video Testing (WebRTC and UDP)

It takes an input video and converts it into H.264/Opus RTP streams that you can blast at your video call systems (WebRTC, SFUs, etc.). It also injects network chaos like packet loss, jitter, and bitrate throttling to see how things break It scales from 1 to n participants, depending on the compute and memory of the host system Best part? It’s packaged with Nix, so it builds the same everywhere (Linux, macOS, ARM, x86). No dependency hell It supports both UDP (with a relay chain for Kubernetes) and WebRTC (with containerized TURN servers). Chaos spikes can be distributed evenly,…

This tool converts input video into H.264/Opus RTP streams for testing video call systems like WebRTC and SFUs. It injects network chaos including packet loss, jitter, and bitrate throttling to simulate real-world… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    A self contained OBS -> FTL -> WebRTC live streaming server. Comprised of 3 parts once configured anyone can achieve sub-second OBS to the browser livestreaming - GRVYDEV/Project-Lightspeed

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Articles in this series Part I. Iterative ServersPart II. Forking ServersPart III. Pre-forking ServersPart IV. Threaded ServersPart V. Pre-threaded ServersPart VI: poll-based serverPart VII: epoll-…

    2019 · unixism.net · its alternatives →

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    hi, this is a project I've been working on and off for the last three months, it's my first non-trivial, non-hello-world, actually useful (at least to me) go project. it would be very nice if you could just try the program and see if it works on your setup! the readme[0] explains how it works, why I wrote it and how it fits in my "command-line centric" computing environment (there is also a video demo[1] :)). if you know go, feel free to take a look at the code and review it! I'm still pretty much new to go and I'd love to hear opinions, feedback and tips from more seasoned go developers :)…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    CLI Native WebRTC Agent in Rust. Contribute to bitwhip/bitwhip development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I've frequently found myself using [nvitop](https://github.com/XuehaiPan/nvitop) to diagnose GPU/CPU contention issues. The two best things about it are: - It's easy to install if I can access pip in the container - It makes a compelling screenshot (which helps me communicate with coworkers.) With those two lessons in mind: Here is Sping! Purpose: Help observe and diagnose latency issues at layer 4+ (TCP/HTTP/HTTPS) Two good things about it: - It's easy to install if you have pip. (Available at…

    2025 · dseltzer.gitlab.io · its alternatives →

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    Spin up secure sandboxes in ~100 ms

    Nov 2025 · hopx.ai · its alternatives →

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    Automate your real-time video, audio, and data interactions

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I’m so excited to show my first open-source project and first post here. I initially started this project to learn Go language, it is an experimental project. The main goal is to track the adventure of a WebRTC stream from start to finish, by debugging the project or tracking the output at console. By trying out this project, you will deep dive into the steps which are taken while starting up a WebRTC session, and more. It consists of a web UI (TypeScript) and a server back-end (Golang) projects. They can run on Docker containers, in development mode or production mode, you can find…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API. Contribute to pion/webrtc development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been building open-source tools in the video/multimedia space for 10+ years. Finally shipped the commercial product I always wanted to exist — Video Commander, a desktop app that consolidates FFmpeg, ffprobe, MediaInfo, VMAF and more into a single workspace where you can inspect, encode and analyze video. Built with Tauri + Rust backend, React frontend. FFmpeg and VMAF. Not a cool AI/LLM project, just a tool I've been heads-down building over the last six months. Happy to answer any questions!

    Apr 2026 · video-commander.com · its alternatives →

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    After streaming over 25,000 hours and 13 TB of video from over 200 robots, 2 years of production use by over a dozen customers, 200,000 sessions, 25 minor releases, and 120 patch releases, we believe it is time to declare WebRTC Video stable. Recent improvements included in v1.0: - vastly increased robustness over poor networks (packet loss, bandwidth fluctuation), - added hardware acceleration for Intel chipsets such as HD Graphics (in addition to the existing Nvidia and RockChip support), - added local mode, allowing offline usage on local networks, - 3x less CPU usage when using software…

    2025 · transitiverobotics.com · its alternatives →

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    Async transport layers for MCP. Contribute to bh-rat/asyncmcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello! I'm Andrew Arrow, a developer and Final Cut Pro user. My history with FCP goes back years and years, I tried to be a video editor as a career but ended up a software developer. I purchased the full version of the software a long, long time ago. And to Apple's credit, every single time I goto the App Store on any mac I still have access to download it. I must have been through 20, 30? I don't know, but a lot of macs over the years. Just recently I downloaded it again and noticed the XML Export feature. Wow. There's a lot of stuff there. I mean a lot. I started playing around with…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, This is an example of playing static content using WebRTC, with a bandwidth estimator! This just added to Pion and really excited to see what people can do with it. WebRTC has a lot of potential in this space. It’s ubiquity and flexibility are really helping it grow.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Some misbehaving networks drop WireGuard packets either by accident or on purpose. Commonly the latter is done with simple DPI rules that block the handshake initiation [1], but it could be applied to other message types as well. We thought it would be great if there was tool for folks to use as a quick litmus test to see if this happening for them, without having to configure a client to send data through a random, functional WireGuard tunnel to an untrusted remote host. So we built probe.sh. How it works: - The probe.sh web app is an Elixir Phoenix app that spawns a few gen_udp…

    2024 · probe.sh · its alternatives →

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    I built a software-defined radio transmission platform that runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W. It spawns its own WiFi hotspot and serves a web UI — connect from any device and you have a portable RF signal generator with 12 transmission modes: FM broadcasting with RDS, FT8, RTTY, FSK, POCSAG paging, Morse code, SSTV image transmission, voice cloning via live mic, spectrum painting, IQ replay, carrier wave, and frequency sweeps. Everything runs through a browser interface. Upload audio files, type messages, configure frequencies, and transmit. The Pi's GPIO pin does the actual RF generation via…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a small Linux tool to deterministically verify GPU PCIe link health and bandwidth. It reports: - Negotiated PCIe generation and width - Peak Host→Device and Device→Host memcpy bandwidth - Sustained PCIe TX/RX utilization via NVML - A rule-based verdict derived from observable hardware data only This exists because PCIe issues (Gen downgrades, reduced lane width, risers, bifurcation) are often invisible at the application layer and can’t be fixed by kernel tuning or async overlap. Linux-only: it relies on sysfs and PCIe AER exposure that Windows does not provide.

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A fun weekend project: https://www.modembin.com It's a pastebin, except text/files are encoded into .wav files using real FSK modem audio. Image sharing is supported via Slow-Scan Television (SSTV), a method of transmitting images as FM audio originally used by ham radio operators. Everything runs in the browser with zero audio libraries and the encoding is vanilla TypeScript sine wave math: phase-continuous FSK with proper 8-N-1 framing, fractional bit accumulation for non-integer sample rates, and a quadrature FM discriminator on the decode side (no FFT windowing or…

    Mar 2026 · modembin.com · its alternatives →

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    Anteon (formerly Ddosify): eBPF-based Kubernetes Monitoring and Performance Testing - getanteon/anteon

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    More than a decade ago, I adopted the self-imposed rule, if I answer a question more than once, the third time I need to be able to answer with a URL. Today, I published one very large URL - a book distilling what I learned from helping people work remotely at GitHub, and I wanted to rethink my rule for the age of AI. What if, instead of a URL, I could create an interactive experience that could tailor the guidance to your particular situation? What I ended up building was an Open and Async Advisor MCP server. To install (in claude or any other AI): > claude mcp add open-async -- npx -y…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I’m Gui from deco (decocms.com). We’ve been using this tool internally as the foundation for a few customer AI platforms, and today we’re open-sourcing it as MCP Mesh. MCP is quickly becoming the standard for agentic systems, but… once you go past a couple servers it turns into the same problems for every team: - M×N config sprawl (every client wired to every server, each with its own JSON + ports + retries) - Token + tool bloat (dumping tool definitions into every prompt doesn’t scale) - Credentials + blast radius (tokens scattered across clients, hard to audit, hard to revoke) - No…

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey y’all, I’m Nikhil from Superpowered (https://superpowered.me), here with my cofounders Jordan and Ibrahim. We’re launching an AI tool that we’ve built. We got destroyed last time we launched on HN over 2 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425318. We went through many product pivots since then and things got weird. At one point, we tried to train a neural net to predict the next app you'll use, lol. But, we’re a lot happier where we find ourselves now: AI copilot for your meetings. We don’t send any bots to your meetings, we don’t keep any…

    2023 · superpowered.me · its alternatives →

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    Anteon (formerly Ddosify): eBPF-based Kubernetes Monitoring and Performance Testing - getanteon/anteon

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A cross-platform audio recording/playback CLI tool with TUI, written in Rust. - chaosprint/asak

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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