WebRTC Weekly Issue #233 - July 18, 2018

Here is the latest on WebRTC  from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.

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Reading

An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (Mozilla)
H.264 and HEVC… and why the shift towards AV1 is inevitable.

Skype 8.0 launches on desktop with HD video, and soon encryption & call recording (TechCrunch)
A few other interesting features in this latest release as well.

Technical

Inserting an External Video Stream into a Live Broadcast sponsored
Learn about how to integrate external video directly into a live broadcast

addTrack adoption (Philipp Hancke)
Developers aren’t migrating fast enough to the newer WebRTC API.

pion-WebRTC – A Go Native WebRTC implementation (discuss-webrtc)
For those looking for an alternative implementation of WebRTC.

How to add WebRTC capabilities to your website (José Manuel Aguirre)
Agora+WebRTC+React – a tutorial.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

None this week.

Releases

OpenVidu 2.3.0: Web Component and tons of new features (OpenVidu)
Now easier to embed in web pages.

From our own posts