Debugging WebRTC media issues, especially video, often requires access to the unencrypted RTP payloads. We talked about this back in 2017 already and had a great blog post on using the libWebRTC “video_replay” tool. While that post has aged remarkably well, video_replay has improved significantly, in particular since it is now possible to create the […]
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WebRTC Plumbing with GStreamer
GStreamer is one of the oldest and most established libraries for handling media. As a core media handling element in Linux and WebKit that as launched near the turn of the century, it is not surprising that many early WebRTC projects use various pieces of it. Today, GStreamer has expanded options for helping developers plumb […]
End-to-End Encryption in WebRTC… 4 Years Later
We covered End-to-end encryption (E2EE) before, first back in 2020 when Zoom’s claims to do E2EE were demystified (not just by us; they later got fined $85m for this), followed by the quite exciting beta implementation of E2EE in Jitsi using Chromium’s Insertable Streams API. A bit later we had Matrix explain how their approach […]
All the ways to send a video file over WebRTC
I am working on a personal Chrome Extension project where I need a way to convert a video file – like your standard mp4 – into a media stream, all within the browser. Adding a file as a src to a Video Element is easy enough. How hard could it be to convert a video […]
The Hidden AV1 Gift in Google Meet
Earlier last week a friend at Google reached out to me asking Does Meet do anything weird with scalabilityMode? Apparently, I am the go-to when it comes to Google Meet behaving weirdly :). Well, I do have a decade of history observing Meet’s implementation, so this makes some sense! It turned out that this was […]