Want to try out a newly released WebRTC feature or capability? Odds are Muaz Khan has already done it. I cannot think of any other individual who has contributed more open source WebRTC application experiments to the community than Muaz and his webrtc-experiment.com. His GitHub repository boasts 44 different projects. He did all that in less […]
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Does Amazon’s Mayday use WebRTC? A Wireshark analysis
Many in the industry, including myself, reference Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX Mayday button as using WebRTC or at least as something that is WebRTC like. The Kindle Fire HDX is not available everywhere, so if you have not seen this the Android Authority has a good video of this feature here. First lets think about […]
Anatomy of a WebRTC SDP (Antón Román)
Editor note: see the updated version of this post here. As described in previous posts, WebRTC does not specify a particular signalling model other than the generic need to exchange Session Description Protocol (SDP) media descriptions in the offer/answer fashion. During the last few months, my friend Antón Román (CTO of Quobis) and I spent a lot […]
Build your own phone company with WebRTC and a weekend
Maybe I have been working in the communications industry too long, but much of the usual telephone experience seems ridiculously antiquated to me. Using a string of digits as a user address? Anyone can call you for any reason they want whether I know them and want to speak to them or not? Of all […]
How to Figure Out WebRTC Camera Resolutions
Newer note: February 2016 update here. Note: Behavior has changed with latest versions of Chrome (v35+). Please see my update to this post here. {“editor”, “chad“} I have a confession to make about my WebRTC Motion Detecting Baby Monitor – the video quality was inconsistent and poor on the baby side of my original demo […]