Coming from a chat/signaling background I’ve had the amazing opportunity to work full-time on WebRTC since 2012 in a number of positions which has allowed me cover a wide range of topics from exploring what is possible with the WebRTC API in the browser to running large scale distributed SFUs and tinkering with mobile applications. […]
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Hello, Hello – What’s your real story? A decode by Philipp Hancke
There have been many major WebRTC launches in the past months including Facebook and KimDotCom. Before those, Mozilla started bundling a new WebRTC calling service right into Firefox. Of course we wanted to check out to see how it worked. To help do this we called on the big guns – webrtcHacks guest columnist Philipp […]
Vector Vibing to speed up Opus encode by 20%
tl;dr: Opus encoding just got 20% faster on desktop Chromium by turning on AVX2 vectorization in libopus. Vectorization means one instruction doing the same arithmetic on a whole vector of values at once instead of one at a time. Codecs spend their hot loops running identical math across long buffers of samples, exactly where vectorization […]
Vibe-coding WebRTC
Well, that title is clickbait for Hacker News. The honest title would have been “using AI to tackle long-standing WebRTC issues.” Posts on webrtcHacks are rare these days, and in German we would say there are Unkenrufe that WebRTC is dead. It is not. It is the infrastructure for meetings, game streaming, and voice AI, […]
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 […]