• IETF - Meetecho - QUIC - RoQ - WebRTC

    RoQ ‘n’ roll! (Playing with RTP Over QUIC)

    A few weeks ago I shared my experience studying and implementing QUIC from scratch: in shortly less than a month, I went from not knowing anything about QUIC, to have a basic stack (with WebTransport support) I could use for interacting with other implemenentations on simple scenarios. Getting to that point was bumpy (QUIC is not an easy protocol to implement!) but exciting as well, and I really couldn’t wait to start looking into some of the media related protocols that people are using QUIC for. In this blog post I’ll share some details on the work I did on…

  • Janus - Meetecho - WebRTC

    Audio redundancy in Janus via RED

    A few months ago, I read a very interesting blog post by Philipp Hancke on how Chrome had added experimental support for audio redundancy via RED, and how it actually helped improve audio quality a lot in lossy networks. That post was followed a few weeks later by another interesting article, written by Boriz Grozev from the Jitsi team, on how RED could be used within an SFU context. I was quite intrigued by both writeups since then, but I only found time to look into this myself recently. This post tries to summarize my efforts in that regard and…

  • 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…