There are several exciting features in WebRTC, but one of the most interesting ones you can take advantage of is definitely simulcast. Rather than explaining what simulcast is, if you want to have a good and in-depth overview of that…
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Blog Archives
Data Channels broadcasting with Janus
I recently read an announcement from a WebRTC company, celebrating the addition of data channel broadcasting to their solution as an industry first. This made me smile, as Janus has supported data channels almost since day one, which were followed…
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Capturing WebRTC traffic in Janus
Capturing WebRTC traffic looks relatively easy, and most of the times it really is: you just need to launch tools like tcpdump or Wireshark on the machine of one of the peers (or on any machine that is in the media path),…
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Streaming live to YouTube via WebRTC with Firefox (kinda)
We all read the news recently about YouTube opening the doors to WebRTC as a way to start a live stream. The webrtcHacks guys, and the amazing Philipp Hancke in particular, immediately did their usual great job in studying how…
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Tutorial: writing a Janus video call plugin in Lua
Just a few days ago we released a new Janus plugin, one that will allow users to write custom plugins in Lua rather than using C. It is currently available as a pull request on the Janus Github repo, as…
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Correlating information from Janus event handlers
In the last blog post we introduced the Janus Event Handlers, and how they can be used to be asynchronously notified about whatever is happening within a Janus instance. We also presented a real example, where we saved the information…
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Playing with event handlers in Janus: a practical example
While playing with Janus and using its features in creative ways can be quite fun, managing and monitoring a Janus instance often isn’t, and can be problematic. Applications may not be working as expected, PeerConnections may be broken for different reasons, or…
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Let the best Janus logo win!
Janus, our general purpose WebRTC gateway, is still young but not a toddler anymore: it’s going to be two years old in just a few weeks! There we were, thinking about how to best celebrate this event, when it occurred…
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Understanding the Janus admin API
WebRTC is an amazing technology, when it works. With just a few lines of JavaScript code, you get audio and video streams with ease in your web page, and with the help of our open source Janus WebRTC gateway you…
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Meetecho Teaser Spot
It took a while but, thanks to the great job by our friends at Uncoso Factory, our brand new (and frankly amazing) teaser spot is now available! For your eyes only, enjoy and feel free to share!