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Capture & Replay WebRTC video streams for debugging – video_replay 2025 update

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 […]

Philipp Hancke · January 21, 2025

Guide bisect, Chrome, debug, simulcast

Bisecting Browser Bugs (Arne Georg Gisnås Gleditsch)

When running WebRTC at scale, you end up hitting issues and frequent regressions. Being able to quickly identify what exactly broke is key to either preventing a regression from landing in Chrome Stable or adapting your own code to avoid the problem. Chrome’s bisect-builds.py tool makes this process much easier than you would suspect. Arne […]

Arne George Gisnås Gleditsch · May 14, 2019

Guide debug, stian selnes, video, video_replay, wireshark

How to capture & replay WebRTC video streams with video_replay (Stian Selnes)

Note: see here for a 2025 update to this post. Decoding video when there is packet loss is not an easy task.  Recent Chrome versions have been plagued by video corruption issues related to a new video jitter buffer introduced in Chrome 58. These issues are hard to debug since they occur only when certain […]

Chad Hart · August 31, 2017

Guide code, debug, extension, webrtc-internals

WebRTC Externals – the cross-browser WebRTC debug extension

I am a big fan of Chrome’s webrtc-internals tool. It is one of the most useful debugging tools for WebRTC and when it was added to Chrome back in 2012 it made my life a lot easier. I even wrote a lengthy series of blog post together with Tsahi Levent-Levi describing how to use it […]

Philipp Hancke · July 28, 2017

Guide debug, Firefox, vp8, Walkthrough, wireshark

Debugging VP8 is more fun than it used to be

  Editor Note: Fippo uses a lot of advanced WebRTC terms below – if you are a regular reader of this blog then don’t let that scare  you. Wireshark is a great tool for diagnosing media issues and inspecting signaling packets even if you’re not building a media server. {“editor”, “chad hart“}   Stuff breaks all […]

Philipp Hancke · March 28, 2017

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