• IETF - Janus - Meetecho - WebRTC - WHEP - WHIP

    WHEP qui?

    April 17, 2023 - By 

    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 few other times already. At the time, we explained how WHIP and WHEP both play a quite important role in the future of WebRTC-based broadcasting. WHIP (WebRTC-HTTP ingestion protocol) is a protocol that was conceived to facilitate the process of media ingestion via WebRTC, something that in “traditional” broadcasting is usually done by means of protocols like RTMP. WHEP (WebRTC-HTTP…

  • IETF - Janus - WebRTC

    Simulcast and Janus: what’s new? (and where’s my SSRC?)

    March 27, 2019 - By 

    There are several exciting features in WebRTC, but one of the most interesting ones you can take advantage of is definitely simulcast. Rather than explaining what simulcast is, if you want to have a good and in-depth overview of that and why it is useful I definitely encourage you to give this excellent webrtcHacks article by Oscar Divorra a read. That’s where this useful picture comes from: To summarise in a very brief way (seriously, read the article!), simulcast is a way to send multiple streams at the same time (typically different qualities of the same source), thus allowing recipients,…