WebRTC Weekly Issue #522 - February 7, 2024

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

Reading

Techstars-backed Nigerian edtech Klas raises $1M for global scaling of online teaching platform (TechCrunch)
Likely based on WebRTC.

castLabs and Phenix’s new partnership brings DRM to real-time video streaming (Phenix)
DRM seems to be a thing for WebRTC live streaming in some domains.

Technical

WebRTC Live is a monthly webinar series with industry guests brought to you by WebRTC.ventures (sponsored)
Register for the February 21 episode, How WebRTC & LLMs Can Lift Business Communications. Our guest will be Symbl.ai’s Dan Nordale.

WebRTC security: Are truly decentralized and private calls possible? (Staex)
An interesting solution for privacy over signaling. Can’t be used with media servers though.

The Impact of WebRTC Testing across the Development Lifecycle (Cyara)
How to think about testing in WebRTC (not a one-time thing).

Use Cases and Customer Wins

Pexip works with Lenovo to extend Teams Rooms capabilities (Pexip)
Adding Lenovo to the list of video services they can connect to.

How Video Vet Consultations Are Revolutionizing Pet Healthcare (QuickBlox)
Telehealth for dogs.

Releases

OBS Studio 30.1 Beta Adds AV1 Support for VA-API, PipeWire Camera Source (9to5Linux)
AV1 encoding comes to OBS WebRTC support.

Create Any Real-Time Video UX With React Hooks: Now Available in Whereby Browser SDK v2 (Whereby)
Adding flexibility to what you can do with it.

From our own posts

None this week