As an audio mixer and MCU, the AudioBridge plugin is quite a popular plugin among Janus users and developers. It’s definitely a foundational component in our own Virtual Event Platform, for instance, where while we use an SFU approach for…
I only recently found out that Chrome has started shipping experimental support for VP9 and AV1 simulcast. If you’ve visited this blog before, you know what simulcast is already (if you don’t, make sure you read this post first!) and…
It’s been a while since last time we spoke of WHEP: just to brush up your memory, it was a few months ago, when we first introduced WHEP as a companion protocol to WHIP, that we had talked about a…
I’m always interested in testing new codecs, especially when it comes to WebRTC. Some time ago, for instance, I talked about my experiments with AV1 and H.265, AV1-SVC or multiopus. As such, when a new codec called Lyra was announced…
Audio conversations that span to hundreds, if not thousands, of people have been quite the rage in the past few years. Podcasts are a good example of this success: there have never been so many as these days, and there’s…
One question we often get is: how do I use the SIP and VideoRoom or AudioBridge plugin together? The short answer is that directly you can’t, because of how Janus is conceived. While Janus is indeed modular, and made of…
If you’re confused about all these acronyms, you’re not alone! Those interested in WebRTC and broadcasting have probably heard about WHIP already: WHEP and WHAP maybe not as much And if you’re even more confused about why I chose a…
SFU cascading has been a hot topic for quite some time. There’s different reasons why you may want to cascade an SFU implementation: you may want to scale a room so that multiple servers cooperate with each other to distrubute…
After three years of work (the original pull request was first opened in December 2018) we finally merged the multistream branch in Janus! Considering this was a huge refactoring, we chose a special day for the occasion, that is the…
Sometime around last year, I first introduced WHIP and how it could be used with Janus in a blog post right here. At the time, we had quite some fun experimenting with this new signalling approach our friends at CoSMo…