This might be my first editorial style post here. Fippo’s Is everyone switching to MoQ from WebRTC? started some threads on MoQ vs. WebRTC. I started to respond, but my responses quickly became too long so I decided to go even deeper with a post here. Fippo’s post shows hard data that Media over QUIC […]
Is everyone switching to MoQ from WebRTC?
It is time for another edition of “Is everyone switching to…“. Cloudflare recently published a blog post about Media over Quic (MoQ) which made a number of statements about WebRTC that require some “clarification”. Let us start with that and look at MoQ and WebTransport after that. An odd understanding of WebRTC The blog post […]
How OpenAI does WebRTC in the new gpt-realtime
Earlier this month, OpenAI released the GA version of its realtime API. This includes many capabilities that the Beta didn’t have, including video support. I started out doing an update to the The Unofficial Guide to OpenAI’s Realtime WebRTC API I made for the Beta release last November. I discovered there were enough WebRTC updates […]
How WebRTC’s NetEQ Jitter Buffer Provides Smooth Audio
Audio jitter buffers are required 101 introductory material for understanding VoIP. libWebRTC’s audio jitter buffer implementation – the one in Chromium – is known as NetEQ. NetEQ is anything but basic. This is good from a user perspective since real-life networks conditions are often challenging. However, this means NetEQ’s esoteric code is complex and difficult […]
OpenAI & WebRTC Q&A with Sean DuBois
OpenAI is utilizing WebRTC for its Realtime API! Even better, webrtcHacks friend and Pion founder Sean DuBois helped to develop it and agreed to a Q&A about the implementation. It is not often a massive WebRTC use case like this emerges so rapidly. In addition, Sean was extremely transparent about his work at OpenAI. In […]