Here is the latest on WebRTC from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.
Reading
Meta Apps Have Been Covertly Tracking Android Users’ Web Activity for Months (Lifehacker)
Meta & Yandex caught with their hands in the WebRTC cookie jar.
Technical
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How to launch your WebRTC service successfully in <60 minutes (includes 3 key tasks you need to take care of now).
Real-Time Gesture Recognition in Videoconferencing (Software Mansion)
An example guide on adding gesture recognition using MediaPipe.
Building a Voicebot with Your Cloned Voice Using Cartesia and LiveKit Agents (WebRTC.ventures)
WebRTC.ventures continues churning nice samples with various ecosystem vendors.
Reflection+Amplification attacks abusing TURN servers (Gustavo Garcia)
Abusive behavior seems to be the norm for us this week.
AV1 vs VP9 vs. VP8: Complete Codec Evolution and Comparison for Live Streaming (Red5)
A good overview of the royalty free codecs.
RTCP Receiver Reports and Stream Synchronization (Webex ahead)
Webex continues with their deep dive. This time, into a few RTCP report blocks.
What is a TURN server? (Metered)
Your 101 on TURN
Use Cases and Customer Wins
Behind the Stream: How Digital Samba Powered Eurovision 2025 (Digital Samba)
Nothing like a good campfire story on a successful delivery.
Releases
WHIP Muxer Merged To FFmpeg For Sub-Second Latency Streaming (Phoronix)
WHIP is coming to an FFmpeg near you.
coturn 4.7.0 released (coturn)
Bug fixes and regression, along with configuration defaults related to security.
OpenVidu 3.2.0 (Open Vidu)
Now with native deployment to Microsoft Azure.
From our own posts
- WebRTC is about reducing friction and barriers of entry (BlogGeek.me)