• 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…

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    Social audio applications with Janus

    November 21, 2022 - By 

    Audio conversations that span to hundreds, if not thousands, of people have been quite the rage in the past few years. Podcasts are a good example of this success: there have never been so many as these days, and there’s a certain appeal to just listening to a conversation without the actual need for any visual aid or medium. It becomes even more interesting when you envision the possibility of more interactive conversations, where anyone from the audience can chime in at any time and share their thoughts. This has been at the basis of the success of platforms like…

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    WHIP, WHEP, WHAP!

    September 2, 2022 - By 

    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…

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    WISH, WHIP and Janus: Part II

    October 14, 2021 - By 

    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…

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    WHIP-ing WebRTC to Janus!

    September 30, 2020 - By 

    Broadcasting is a huge industry, and historically there have been different protocols used for the purpose. A common choice, and basically a de-facto standard today, is RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol), which is used in almost all broadcasting applications as a way to inject media that can then be distributed, e.g., via HLS Live Streaming. While this is a simple and effective setup, it has a few drawbacks, especially when latency is an issue or a challenge. In fact, even with the tightest of settings, you can rarely get below a few seconds of delay from producer to consumer. For…

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    Having fun with Insertable Streams and E2EE (and SFrame!)

    May 28, 2020 - By 

    About a month ago, we shared a post on several things that were happening in Janus. One of the most exciting sections was definitely the one related to end-to-end encryption, and how Insertable Streams could be used for the purpose. Considering this is something a lot of people have looked up to for a long time, I thought it made sense to write a new post, to dig a bit deeper in what we’ve been doing with that so far, and what’s next. In particular, I’ll share some details on how I started playing with Sergio Garcia Murillo’s excellent SFrame…

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    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,…