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'''OpenWebRTC''' (OWR) is a free [[software stack]] that implements the [[WebRTC]] standard, a set of protocols and [[application programming interface]]s defined by the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) and the [[Internet Engineering Task Force]] (IETF).

It is an alternative to the [[reference implementation]] that is based on software from [[Global IP Solutions]] (GIPS).

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It is meant to also work outside webbrowsers, e.g. to power native mobile apps.

It is mostly written in [[C (programming language)|C]] and based largely on the multimedia framework [[GStreamer]] and a number of other, smaller external [[programming library (computing)|libraries]]. It officially supports both [[VP8]] and [[H.264/MPEG-4 AVC|H.264]] as video formats. For H.264 it uses [[OpenH264]] to which [[Cisco Systems|Cisco]] pays the patent licensing bills.

Development of OpenWebRTC started at [[Ericsson]] Research under the lead of Stefan Ålund.