• Janus - Meetecho - WebRTC

    Playing with Lyra

    December 6, 2022 - By 

    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 that promised to give great audio in very low bitrates, I was definitely curious. In this blog post I’ll describe the steps I went through to get it to work in browsers and, most importantly, Janus. What’s Lyra? If you’re a fan of music as I am, the world “lyra” actually doesn’t bring a codec to mind at all, but…

  • Janus - WebRTC

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

    May 19, 2020 - By 

    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,…