Photo courtesy Flickr user Tomás Fano
Newer note: February 2016 update here.
Note: Behavior has changed with latest versions of Chrome (v35+). Please see my update to this post here.
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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 video, so I swapped out my old HTC Thunderbolt for another laptop in the 2nd half of the video. The stream and motion processing consumes a full core on my 2 GHz Intel i7 laptop processor. Fortunately I have more cores there, but this would clearly be a problem for a lot of devices – both in terms of having enough CPU to meet the application’s demands and on battery life. There are also bandwidth concerns in the real world. I was am running everything over WiFi, so I was not too concerned about bandwidth, but there is no reason why one should not be able to run this on a LTE or 3G network where there are bandwidth constraints and data plan usage concerns.
