• Bitrates
    IETF - Janus - Meetecho - WebRTC

    Bandwidth Estimation (BWE) and Janus

    November 27, 2023 - By 

    A few weeks ago I attended the first edition of what turned out to be a great event, RTC.On, and I took that opportunity to submit a talk on something I wanted to work on for quite some time: bandwidth estimation in WebRTC and, more specifically, Janus. The main objective of that presentation was not only to “force” myself to work on this topic and share the results, but also to try and provide everyone with some more insight on what is ostensibly one of WebRTC’s best kept “secrets”: not out of malice (at least I don’t think so), but…

  • 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,…