Time Travel in MOQ Conferencing

Time Travel uses the MOQT protocol to enable low-latency video conferencing with rewind capability, allowing participants to replay recent moments from another participant’s stream without interrupting the ongoing live session.

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Online Demo

Available at https://timetravel.moqtail.dev

Research Paper

Available at ACM DL

Run Locally

Prerequisites

• Docker
• Local Certificates

Running the Demo

# 1. Install the local CA.
mkcert -install

# 2. Generate certificate files for 'localhost', '127.0.0.1', and '::1'.
mkcert -key-file cert/key.pem -cert-file cert/cert.pem localhost 127.0.0.1 ::1

# 3. Run the Docker containers.
docker compose up --build

The app will be available at http://localhost:4173 by default.

Note

If you experience issues with TLS certificates, please check the README in the cert directory for troubleshooting steps.