It has been a few years since the WebRTC codec wars ended in a detente. H.264 has been around for more than 15 years so it is easy to gloss over the the many intricacies that make it work. Reknown hackathon star, live-coder, and |pipe| CTO Tim Panton was working on a drone project where he needed […]
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SDP: The worst of all worlds or why compromise can be a bad idea (Tim Panton)
As WebRTC implementations and field trials evolve, field experience is telling us there are still a number of open issues to make this technology deployable in the real world and the fact that we would probably do some things differently if we started all over again. As an example, see the recent W3C discussion What […]
Making Zoom’s Smart Gallery on the Web with MediaPipe and BreakoutBox
How to seperate multiple people in the same camera feed into their own unique video streams that can be individually transmitted Google’s MediaPipe and the W3C’s new MediaStreamTrack API
How Go-based Pion attracted WebRTC Mass – Q&A with Sean Dubois
Pion seemingly came out of nowhere to become one of the biggest and most active WebRTC communities. Pion is a Go-based set of WebRTC projects. Golang is an interesting language, but it is not among the most popular programming languages out there, so what is so special about Pion? Why are there so many developers […]
The WhatsApp RTCP exploit – what might have happened?
As you may have heard, Whatsapp discovered a security issue in their client which was actively exploited in the wild. The exploit did not require the target to pick up the call which is really scary. Since there are not many facts to go on, lets do some tea reading… The security advisory issued by […]