• Janus - Meetecho - WebRTC - WHEP - WHIP

    WHIP, WHEP, WHAP!

    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 picture of Huey, Dewey and Louie as the featured image, that’s because in Italian they’re called “Qui, Quo e Qua”, which is the first thing that came to mind when I came up with the title. I know, it’s incredibly stupid, but please bear with me: I’ve just come back from my summer break! We’ve talked about WHIP, a new…

  • Janus - Meetecho - WebRTC - WHIP

    WISH, WHIP and Janus: Part II

    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 (and our good old friend Dr. Alex in particular, may he rest in peace ❤️) had come up with, using a custom fork of OBS Studio called OBS-WebRTC. In the meanwhile, WHIP has been adopted by the IETF in a new Working Group called WISH (WebRTC Ingest Signalling over HTTPS), which led us and other developers to start working on…

  • Janus - WebRTC

    WebRTC + NDI = Broadcasters Heaven?

    This pandemic we’ve all been living in these past few months forced many people and companies to change their daily patterns. Most of us have been forced by circumstances to stay and work from home for long periods of time. This clearly had an impact on the broadcasting industry in general. Just think, for instance, of interviews or any kind of live interaction in News or Talk Shows: without the ability to have guests (and often even hosts!) in the studios, production teams were forced to find solutions that would still allow them to do their job. This may seem…