Hi there!

I was crawling through everything around the tech used in Lightspeed.
I even found obsproject/obs-studio#3881 by @GRVYDEV

As I am somewhat a packaging freak I brought FTL to Arch Linux today with the AUR package obs-studio-ftl.
To get this upstream into Arch I planned to upstream my changes needed for packaging in OBS: obsproject/obs-studio#4018

But looking at comments in my PR, as well as this PR it seems as if FTL is going to be removed soon-ish from OBS, as it is unmaintained and there are competing protocols trying to achieve the same goals.

Therefore I want to propose to move away from FTL to SRT, which could be a really good replacement, that's already supported in OBS through ffmpeg.

To be honest this is really a bummer as Lightspeed is really amazing software. But building on a wonky foundation would probably make maintaining this more and more difficult over time.

There are a few SRT protocol libraries on crates.io. Notably srt-rs which procides bindings for the aforementioned SRT library.

Now I haven't researched anything regarding codecs and how easy the SRT -> WebRTC "translation" will be. I might add more details later