• 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,…

  • 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…