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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WebRTC cracks the WHIP on OBS
Open Broadcaster Software – Studio or OBS Studio is an extremely popular open-source program used for streaming to broadcast platforms and for local recording. WebRTC is the open-source real time video communications stack built into every modern browser and used by billions for their regular video communications needs. Somehow these two have not formally intersected […]
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.
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 […]
Suspending Simulcast Streams for Savvy Streamlining (Brian Baldino)
If you’re new to WebRTC, Jitsi was the first open source Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) and continues to be one of the most popular WebRTC platforms. They were in the news last week because their parent group inside Atlassian was sold off to Slack but the team clarified this does not have any impact on the Jitsi […]