WebRTC Weekly Issue #483 - May 10, 2023

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

Reading

A guide to the telehealth landscape and emerging trends (Daily)
A great starting point to understanding telehealth from a bird’s eye view.

Video Chat for Banking: An Effective Tool for Cross-Selling and Upselling (Kaleyra)
If you are more into video banking and not telehealth 😉

Technical

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Improved video calling with faster AV1 encoding (Chrome Developers)
Chrome is publicly and officially pushing AV1 as an encoder in WebRTC.

PSA: inbound-rtp headerBytesReceived, bytesReceived and packetsReceived now include retransmissions (discuss-webrtc)
From Chrome 115. Make sure to check if it affects your calculations.

PSA: New format for WebRTC event logs in Chrome (discuss-webrtc)
A new wire-format for the WebRTC event logs (the ones collected for media packets).

Use Cases and Customer Wins

Phenix Partners with Zixi to Expand Ingest Flexibility and Unlock Real-Time Streaming Potential (Press release)
This increases the ingest protocols Phenix can support for its streaming service.

Breaking Out of the Iframe: Why We’re Building a Browser SDK for Full Flexibility (Whereby)
Whereby, moving from offering a service, to embedded iframe, to an SDK.

Releases

OpenVidu 2.27.0 (OpenVidu)
Kurento 7 support is the main thing here.

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