WebRTC Weekly Issue #17
1. Kranky Geek WebRTC Show 2. Server-side media processing 3. Studio production
Here's the latest news this week on WebRTC from your friends at webrtcweekly.com
Before we begin:
Kranky Geek WebRTC Show site is now live. Early registration is available.
We have a twitter account for it: @webrtclive
Reading
The VCaaS Future: Cloudy With a Chance of Hyperbole (nojitter.com) Not exactly WebRTC, but rather cloud based enterprise video communications. This is where the "obvious" WebRTC use cases are headed, and even without it this is a crowded space.
Technical
Kurento.org: WebRTC, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality, Awesome (webrtchacks.com) An introduction to Kurento, a general purpose server side media engine for WebRTC.
Lightweight, Live Video in a Webpage With GStreamer and WebRTC (the.randomengineer.com) This is a helpful quick start guide for those looking to use Janus as their WebRTC gateway/media streamer.
All Your Screens are Belong to Us: Attacks Exploiting the HTML5 Screen Sharing API [PDF] (ieee-security.org) If security and WebRTC is what you are interested in, then this academic paper is for you. Got that printed out for my weekend reading.
WebRTC your FreeSWITCH (blog.flowroute.com) A short explanation on how to enable WebRTC in FreeSWITCH. Still in beta, but I know of a few that are using it already with success.
Use Cases and Customer Wins
Real World WebRTC: Your Internet Recording Studio (cio2cmo.com) Source-Connect is a WebRTC service in beta for studio production, online interview and music teaching.
Releases
Lifesize Reinvents Video Collaboration…Again (lifesize.com) Mostly reinvents Lifesize, shifting from a product company to a service company, offering video cloud service for enterprises - that happens to include WebRTC in it as yet another access point.
From our own posts
Kranky Geek WebRTC Event is now OPEN! (chriskranky.com)
Here Come the WebRTC WordPress Plugins (bloggeek.me)
When Whatsapp Adds Voice Calling, WebRTC will be Used by 500 Million Users (bloggeek.me)
Why was SCTP Selected for WebRTC’s Data Channel? (bloggeek.me)
Comcast Getting it Right with WebRTC: Opts for Video Streaming over Video Chatting (bloggeek.me)