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Why The WebRTC Video Codec War Is Not Over Yet, VP8 & H.264 Are Still In The Boxing Ring

June 7, 2016 / in Mobile, VoIP / Add Comment

Why The WebRTC Video Codec War Is Not Over Yet, VP8 & H.264 Are Still In The Boxing Ring

There are 2 main decision criteria for choosing a video codec – technical and business. Tsahi touched the technical part in his post. While I’ll get a bit into the technical aspects as well, in this post I also want to cover some of the business considerations. Let’s put one thing behind us. The difference between H.264 and VP8 from quality perspective is more of a religion than anything else.

Tagged With: Android, Cisco, Fippo, Google, H.264, H.265, HW acceleration, iOS, Microsoft, Mobile, MPEG LA, Tsahi Levent-Levi, UIWebView, VP8, VP9 SVC, WebRTC, WebView

Clearing The Fog From The Apple WebRTC Relationship

May 2, 2016 / in VoIP / Add Comment

Clearing The Fog From The Apple WebRTC Relationship

While people have questioned the likelihood of Apple adding WebRTC anytime soon it is now clear to all that the WebRTC train has left the Apple planning station and is now parking at development. From the simple statement on Apple’s Webkit status page saying it is “In Development” it is still hard to understand the details. Our live Webinar & Q&A will answer some of them.

Tagged With: Apple, Safari, WebRTC, WebView

The End of Transcoding WebRTC Video Sessions

April 5, 2016 / in VoIP / 3 Comments

The End of Transcoding WebRTC Video Sessions

Google published the release notes of Chrome 50. It now supports H.264 (behind a flag). Google adds H.264 to Chrome. This was an expected addition to Chrome given the WebRTC Mandatory to Implement video codec decision at the IETF that both VP8 and H.264 should be supported by browsers. Does this put an end to the need for WebRTC video transcoding and to server side decode and encode?

Tagged With: H.264, H.265, Transcoding, Video Codec, VP8, VP9, WebRTC

Why WebRTC Screen Sharing Requires More Than User Consent

March 22, 2016 / in VoIP / 10 Comments

Why WebRTC Screen Sharing Requires More Than User Consent

The more permissive screen sharing is, the higher the security risks are. Users expect the browser to protect them from security threats of websites they visit and that each website will be isolated, similar to the sandbox concept. To achieve this, browsers implement the Same Origin Policy (SOP), which in essence means that HTML and Scripts of site A can’t have access to other sites’ content

Tagged With: Screen Capture, Screen Sharing, SOP, WebRTC

WebRTC Helping Local Businesses – An Interview Philippe Vayssac, Chief Innovation Officer for Groupama

March 7, 2016 / in Markets & People, VoIP / 1 Comment

WebRTC Helping Local Businesses – An Interview Philippe Vayssac, Chief Innovation Officer for Groupama

Starting something new that is not directly inline with common business of a large company is like pushing a large rock up a hill. How WebRTC and other open source and cloud platforms come to the rescue of internal innovators is the theme of this interview with Philippe Vayssac, Chief Innovation Officer for Groupama who started a social network for local businesses in rural France.

Tagged With: granvillage, Groupama, Philippe Vayssac, WebRTC

WebRTC Q&A Highlights – Session #2

March 1, 2016 / in VoIP / 1 Comment

WebRTC Q&A Highlights – Session #2

Yesterday we had our second live WebRTC Q&A session. On the session we had Dan Burnett, Alex Gouaillard and myself.
Below are the highlights of the session. For more details see the session recording and presentation.
You can also see some of the feedback received from people who participated in the session: “Great Webinar” “Thanks Alex, Dan and Amir. Good session”

Tagged With: Alex Gouaillard, Dan Burnett, WebRTC, WebRTC Implementation, WebRTC Standards

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