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…
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),…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Work is moving on fast on our WebRTC gateway Janus. Just these latest weeks, besides improving the overall architecture and performances, we added several features that we were interested in supporting, like RTCP muxing, bundling, Trickle ICE and more. One…