• Janus - Meetecho - WebRTC

    Audio redundancy in Janus via RED

    June 4, 2021 - By 

    A few months ago, I read a very interesting blog post by Philipp Hancke on how Chrome had added experimental support for audio redundancy via RED, and how it actually helped improve audio quality a lot in lossy networks. That post was followed a few weeks later by another interesting article, written by Boriz Grozev from the Jitsi team, on how RED could be used within an SFU context. I was quite intrigued by both writeups since then, but I only found time to look into this myself recently. This post tries to summarize my efforts in that regard and…

  • Janus - Meetecho - WebRTC

    WebRTC + NDI: Part II

    November 27, 2020 - By 

    You may remember that a couple of months ago I wrote a blog post on a cool experiment I had worked on: a “simple” way to bridge the gap between the WebRTC and NDI worlds, something that had apparently been lacking in the broadcasters industry, using a new Janus plugin. At the time, this sparkled a lot of interest in the broadcasters community, and since then I also presented the effort in a couple of different venues: I made a live demo of the Janus NDI plugin in action during the ClueCon Dangerous Demos session, involving live feeds of people…

  • Janus - Meetecho - WebRTC

    What’s cooking in Janus?

    April 30, 2020 - By 

    It’s been a while since I last wrote a blog post, here: more precisely, it was more than 4 months ago when I documented our efforts in getting Real-Time Text support to WebRTC and the SIP plugin. I realized that, for the amounts of things we work on every day, we also do a pretty bad job at telling people about it, which means many may not actually be aware of cool new features or experimentations we’ve started, or even completed. This is even more important now, in a world that has so suddenly and dramatically changed in these past…

  • IETF - Janus - Meetecho - WebRTC

    Meetecho and CoSMo strike again: PERC Lite integration in Janus!

    June 27, 2017 - By 

    It’s been just a few days since we talked about how we worked together on VP9 SVC, and yet here we are again with some more news! The collaboration between the CoSMo Software and Meetecho teams has resulted in a new effort: a patch to Janus to implement support for End to End Media Encryption (PERC Lite). PERC Lite? What’s PERC Lite? For a couple of years, the IETF has been working on a standardization effort called PERC (Privacy Enhanced RTP Conferencing). Quoting the Working Group charter, the aim is finding “a solution that enables centralized SRTP-based conferencing, where the central device distributing the media…

  • Meetecho

    Availability of Chrome interoperable VP9 SVC in Janus, a Meetecho / CoSMo collaboration!

    June 16, 2017 - By 

    Following the great article from Sergio Murillo and Gustavo garcia in webrtchacks, the interest had surged about VP9 SVC. CoSMo Software, specialising on libwebrtc modifications for WebRTC clients, has been collaborating with Meetecho, specialising on WebRTC media servers (Janus), across many WebRTC system design projects to date. Both teams are deeply rooted in public Research and believe in Excellence in Technology, and open source projects as a way to differentiate. Together they represent the best WebRTC system level design team of consultants available today. With the recent addition of Sergio Murillo, WebRTC expert author of the above blog post, at the foundation…

  • Janus - Meetecho - WebRTC

    Let the best Janus logo win!

    January 21, 2016 - By 

    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 to us that we actually never designed a logo for it. You may wonder as to why that happened, considering that’s what most projects work on first. The short answer is: we’re lazy and we’re really bad at graphics! The long answer instead is… well, I guess that’s it, actually. We worked hard on Janus itself, and never really bothered…

  • Janus - Meetecho - WebRTC

    Understanding the Janus admin API

    August 3, 2015 - By 

    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 can play with those media to do pretty much what you like. That said, WebRTC can also be incredibly frustrating to novices when it DOESN’T work, that is, whenever you think you did everything right and instead nothing works: you can see others, but others cannot see you, or all you see is a black screen where you expected a…

  • Meetecho

    Meetecho Teaser Spot

    July 31, 2014 - By 

    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! Lorenzo MinieroI’m getting older but, unlike whisky, I’m not getting any better lminiero.it

  • IETF - Meetecho

    Another week at the IETF!

    March 2, 2014 - By 

      The IETF meetings are a bit like Christmas after the summer ends. You always think it’s still far away, and instead, suddenly, here it is again! And just like Christmas, an IETF meeting always is an exciting time for us, as it allows us to provide our remote participation services to tons of remote attendees, and experiment on new cool features. Now, after several meetings we supported in the last years, the time for the IETF meeting in London has finally come. As we speak, we’re working on the setup for recording the Sunday tutorials which, as always, will…