• Janus - WebRTC

    Having fun with Insertable Streams and E2EE (and SFrame!)

    About a month ago, we shared a post on several things that were happening in Janus. One of the most exciting sections was definitely the one related to end-to-end encryption, and how Insertable Streams could be used for the purpose. Considering this is something a lot of people have looked up to for a long time, I thought it made sense to write a new post, to dig a bit deeper in what we’ve been doing with that so far, and what’s next. In particular, I’ll share some details on how I started playing with Sergio Garcia Murillo’s excellent SFrame…

  • Janus - WebRTC

    AV1, H.265 and Janus walk into a bar…

    It’s been a few weeks since we went quickly through most of the things cooking in Janus. We did a quick overview on a lot of different changes and enhancements, but I felt it was time to dig a bit deeper in one topic in particular, that is the efforts we’ve spent on getting Janus to support AV1 and H.265. A new codec war? If you’re as old as I am (in WebRTC years, at least), you’ll probably remember the “First Codec War”: the one that had VP8 and H.264 face each other in a battle to the death. Eventually,…