WebRTC Weekly Issue #618

Camera quality vs bandwidth, CBR vs VBR and more.

Dec 17, 2025

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

📖 Reading

WebKit Features for Safari 26.2 (WebKit)
Why is Apple focusing on useless when it comes to WebRTC in Safari, neglecting what’s really needed?

⚙️ Technical

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How We Balanced Camera Quality and Bandwidth in Our Video Meetings (Hopp)
SFUs require optimizations to fit specific use cases.

CBR vs VBR: A Complete Guide to Bitrate Control for High-Quality and Low-Latency Streaming (Ant Media)
A good overview of the differences between CBR and VBR in the context of WebRTC streaming.

Building Real-Time Collaborative Applications: A Deep Dive into WebRTC, WebSockets, and Conflict Resolution (Himansu Saha)
This reads a bit like AI-slop but somehow in a good way. Hard to explain.

💼 Use Cases and Customer Wins

None this week.

📢 Releases