Editor Note: Fippo uses a lot of advanced WebRTC terms below – if you are a regular reader of this blog then don’t let that scare you. Wireshark is a great tool for diagnosing media issues and inspecting signaling packets even if you’re not building a media server. {“editor”, “chad hart“} Stuff breaks all […]
Dear Slack: why is your WebRTC so weak?
Dear Slack, There has been quite some buzz this week about you and WebRTC. WebRTC… kind of. Because actually you only do stuff in Chrome and your native apps: I’ve been there. Launching stuff only for Chrome. That was is late 2012. In 2016, you need to have a very good excuse to launch something […]
Shut up! Monitoring audio volume in getUserMedia
A few days back my old friend Chris Koehncke, better known as “Kranky” asked me how hard it would be to implement a wild idea he had to monitor what percentage of the time you spent talking instead of listening on a call when using WebRTC. When I said “one day” that made him wonder […]
OMG WebRTC is tracking me! Or is it?
There has been more noise about WebRTC making it possible to track users. We have covered some of the nefarious uses of WebRTC and look out for it before. After reading a blog post on this topic covering some allegedly new unaddressed issues a week ago I decided to ignore it after some discussion on the mozilla […]
Hello Chrome and Firefox, this is Edge calling
For the first time, Chrome, Firefox and Edge can “talk” to each other via WebRTC and ORTC. Check the demo on Microsoft’s modern.ie testdrive. tl;dr: don’t worry, audio works. codec interop issue… Feature Interoperability Notes ICE yes Edge requires end-of-candidate signaling DTLS yes audio yes using G.722, Opus or G.711 codecs video no standard H.264 […]