Alluno v0.8.x: Media over QUIC (MoQ) Transport

We're excited to announce Alluno v0.8.x: the biggest change to how Alluno moves your screen across the network since launch. Alluno now ships a second streaming transport, Media over QUIC (MoQ), that you can pick per device, right next to the WebRTC path you already know.

What's New

Choose your transport

• Two transports, one app: Each device now has a Transport setting: WebRTC (the default) or MoQ. Switch it in the desktop app under Network Configuration, no reinstall required.
• Shown everywhere: The transport a device uses is now surfaced on your device cards and in the stream stats overlay, so you always know which path a session is running on.

MoQ (Media over QUIC)

• QUIC delivery: MoQ streams over QUIC/HTTP-3. Each group of frames rides its own stream, so a single delayed packet can't head-of-line-block the whole feed the way it can over TCP.
• Built for one-to-many: Where WebRTC shines for direct 1:1 sessions, MoQ is designed to fan out through regional relays, one host serving many viewers efficiently, without a separate peer connection per viewer.
• Smooth browser playback: Video is decoded with WebCodecs and painted off the main thread in an OffscreenCanvas worker, so high-frame-rate streams stay smooth even under UI load, with audio and video kept in sync.

LAN Direct

• Skip the relay hop: On a trusted network, MoQ can serve a same-LAN browser directly on a UDP port you choose, bypassing the cloud relay entirely for lower latency.
• Beyond the LAN: The same path works over port-forwarding, VPN mesh, and other virtual networks. The host advertises each reachable address, and the viewer connects to the first that works, falling back to the relay automatically.
• Automatic certificates: The direct server mints its own short-lived certificate, which the browser pins via WebTransport serverCertificateHashes. Nothing to install or manage. A supported browser is required for the direct path; unsupported browsers simply use the relay.

Bring your own relay

• Private relays: Point a device at your own MoQ relay URL, with an optional token embedded in the URL, or leave it blank to use the nearest regional default.

Other Improvements

• Best-available decoding: The browser now uses hardware video decoding when it's available and falls back to software automatically.
• Sharper stream stats: The stats overlay now reports the exact wire protocol (QUIC vs WebSocket, DTLS-SRTP) and connection type (Direct vs Relayed) for every session.

When to use which

• WebRTC stays the default and the best pick for low-latency 1:1 interactive control: it connects peer-to-peer, is supported by more browsers, shines on a LAN, and is the simplest to set up.
• MoQ is the choice when you want to reach many viewers at once, or to take advantage of QUIC's clean per-stream delivery and LAN-direct playback for a true real-time experience.

Both are first-class. Pick per device, and switch any time.

How to Update

Already have Alluno installed?

• Click update on the UI or right-click the Alluno icon in your system tray
• Click "Check for Updates"
• The update will download and install automatically

New to Alluno?

• Download the latest version from our download page

Your settings will be preserved after updating.

What's Next

• Broader one-to-many broadcast tooling on top of MoQ
• Continued latency tuning for the direct path

Feedback

Questions or feedback? Email us at [email protected] or open an issue on GitHub.