In the WebRTC standardisation post I mentioned that one of the controversial discussions in the IETF context was the mandatory to implement (MTI) video codec battle for WebRTC. While there are some technical arguments on the topic (i.e this VP8 vs H.264 – subjective evaluation and this performance comparisons discussion), there is no dispute both are high quality and […]
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Strong WebRTC Signals at the IIT Real-Time Communications Conference
Last week I attended the Illinois Institute of Technology Real-Time Communications (IIT-RTC) Conference in Chicago. This event has a history of attracting key players from around the RTC world. It features discussion that is distilled down to the key trends and technology challenges in the industry, with very little “fluff” on top. This year the […]
getUserMedia – What happens when there’s missing media sources?
As discussed in previous posts, the mission of the W3C WebRTC WG is to define client-side APIs to enable Real-Time Communications in Web-browsers. At a very high-level overview, there are three main steps to be taken when setting up a WebRTC session: Obtain local media – provides access to local media input devices such as webcams and microphones […]
How to Build a Motion Detecting Baby Monitor with WebRTC
I finally got around to finishing my first demo application. First, a word of caution – I don’t really know what I am doing. I am not a professional programmer and I don’t plan to be one. My JavaScript experience is limited to a node.js-based database API I wrote a few months ago for an […]
Updated: Why the WebRTC API has it wrong – Interview with WebRTC Object API (ORTC) co-author Iñaki Baz
Updated 25 Aug 2013 – some minor edits fixing some ORTC API references and added ORTC sample code. In my post on WebRTC standardization I mentioned that one of the controversial points of discussion in the W3C context was whether the SDP Offer/Answer model and the current API provided the level of flexibility a wide range of […]
