Stumbling over Microsoft’s Video Conferencing Dataset (VCD) I asked Claude to take on a video codec engineer’s favorite hot take: compare video codecs. It did a fairly good writeup using the tooling provided by libWebRTC. One of the most surprising results was that background blur makes H.264 a lot more effective. Other than that, the […]
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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 […]
WebCodecs, WebTransport, and the Future of WebRTC
Explore the future of Real-Time Communications with WebrtcHacks as we delve into the use of WebCodecs and WebTransport as alternatives to WebRTC’s RTCPeerConnection. This comprehensive blog post features interviews with industry experts, a review of potential WebCodecs+WebTransport architecture, and a discussion on real-time media processing challenges. We also examine performance measurements, hardware encoder issues, and the practicality of these new technologies.
WebRTC Today & Tomorrow: Interview with W3C WebRTC Chair Bernard Aboba
Interview with WebRTC standards co-chair and author, Bernard Aboba. We cover the current status of WebRTC and where it is headed including WebRTC-NV, Simulcast, SVC, AV1, WebTransport, WebCodecs, ML and more.