Category: MCU

When everyone WebRTCs: are browser based codecs the future of VC?

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Update:    Firefox just released Hello, which is free to use, and is what you would expect from a WebRTC app:  free, no plugins, no account, connect with anyone who has a WebRTC-enabled browser such as Firefox, Chrome or Opera. When you start a conversation a window opens showing a self-view until the person you[…]

Videoconferencing Compression and Multipoint Basics

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It’s called Encoding To fit into a network, video has to be compressed, way down, using a video codec.  The video conferencing industry uses H.264, and is talking about releasing H.265.   Google is shaking things up with a royalty free version called VP8, which works with WebRTC via Chrome and Firefox. Next up: VP9.[…]

Dave Fahrbach