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    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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    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…