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Notes on video infrastructure for the agentic internet — how people and agents move and pay for video on WAVE.
- WebRTC and sub-second latency
WebRTC is the transport when latency has to be conversational. WAVE runs its real-time layer on LiveKit and exposes it through the same open API as every other transport.
- NDI at the edge
NDI carries broadcast-grade video over standard IP networks. WAVE treats it as one transport adapter over the Media Engine — ingest NDI on the LAN, deliver anywhere.
- One API, every transport
Most video stacks pick a transport and build around it. WAVE puts one API in front of all of them and makes each transport a thin adapter, so the protocol is a parameter, not a rewrite.
- How an agent pays for video
An agent can call WAVE for video and settle the bill itself — per use, over x402, with no account. Here is the exact path the request and the payment take.