Is Producer Consumer 1-to-1

mediasoup libraries
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Hi I am trying to understand the producer consumer concept.

Example:
A voice call with 5 users
Each user with two transports, producer and consumer (or one transport for producing and consuming?)
Each user is also producing a microphone audio stream to the server

How many consumers does each user need? Does each user need a consumer for each other user in the call (n-1)?
Can I combine producer tracks to use in one consumer?

What is the best practice to achieve this?

Thanks

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Yes

Why? Each consumer or producer represents one audio or video track. You can’t combine them without re-encoding (you need MCU for that), mediasoup will just forward them as is (because it is SFU).