Some weeks are busy while others are slow. We’re in a slow week this time, which still got us 4 very different stories to read - IOT, monitoring, tunnelling and open source media servers.
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📰 This Week in WebRTC
Why AI Chips Are Becoming Communication Platforms (IoT For All) - Espressif shipping ESP-WebRTC for the ESP32 is the part to notice
Why Your Voice and Video AI Needs Media Quality Monitoring (Gustavo Garcia) - Gustavo takes rtcStats for a spin with Retell.AI
whitelist-bypass - WebRTC Tunnels Through Video-Calling Platforms (darknet.org.uk) - an interesting concept of tunneling data via the data channel - but also VP8 itself
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✍️ This Week on BlogGeek.me
Top WebRTC open source media servers on GitHub - Jitsi leads on stars, mediasoup leads on commits, and that gap is most of the answer to why there is no single best one
📢 Releases
Safari Technology Preview 252 - TURN server URLs carrying query-string parameters like
?transport=tcpwere being rejected, so relay candidates were never gathered. Is this 2015?Firefox 156 - WebRTC video calls on Windows ARM64 can now use hardware H.264 decoding instead of falling back to software