Use cases

The use cases of VDO.Ninja are many; they go far beyond the original scope of the project

• To allow your mobile device to be used as a wireless remote camera.

• To pull in other people's video and audio for podcasting/broadcast (guest appearances).

• For sharing high-quality and low-latency audio and video across the Internet and within LANs.

• Bring a friend's remote game stream into your OBS and do side-by-side gaming together.

• For VR chat applications.

• For high-quality audio streaming, including remote DJing.

• Wirelessly stream video from any pro camera using just a $10 Raspberry Pi and HDMI adapter.

• For sending any streaming-data peer-to-peer over the Internet in a few lines of code, including JSON.

• To allow you to publish to YouTube with your smartphone even though you don't yet have enough followers to broadcast to YouTube with the YT mobile yet.

• To watch movies with friends, via screen sharing, privately, and with low-enough latency to talk on the phone together while watching it.

• Use as a remote low-latency teleprompter feed.

• Recording remote or local video at high quality without needing any downloads.

• Remotely streaming MIDI device output, such as MIDI keyboards or production control boards.

• Controlling OBS remotely from any computer on the Internet using VDO.Ninja as a p2p bridge.

• Recording remote participates during interviews directly to their own computer; perfect recordings.

• Applying green screens, digital face effects, and other advanced video filters to video streams.

• Real-time closed-captions and transcriptions.

• For whatever other reason you might come up with.