How can I stream a Twilio video room to thousands?

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I'm trying to build a solution using Twilio Programmable Video, where the video call between the participants can be streamed to (potentially) thousands. I understand that depending on the room type, Twilio can only take up to 50 participants. Is there a way I can somehow "feed" the video/audio track from all the participants to a streaming service like Wowza, TokBox, etc. and achieve this?

p.s. I have already scouted all the relevant questions here, haven't found a definitive answer yet.

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Iraklis

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I have heard that this can be done using Twilio but requires a non-trivial integration.

The steps are the following:

(1) The developer creates a Twilio Room.

(2) The developer connects to the room a fake participant running on a browser driver (e.g. selenium or equivalent).

(3) The fake participant screen is captured. This can be done using ffmpeg. Such capture is published to a live streaming server such as Wowza.

(4) Wowza publishes the stream using RTMP or MPEG/DASH to a CDN like Amazon CloudFront or equivalent.

Twilio does not provide development integration in steps 2, 3 and 4. That needs to be handled by the developer.

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