This week Meta moved Instagram Live ingest to Media over QUIC. The Chrome echo story got a follow-up, and this time it is about what leaked echo does to a voice agent. There’s also an interesting proposal for audio-only capture.
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Shipping Media Over QUIC at Meta Scale for Instagram Live Ingest (Meta Engineering)
Meta has joined the MoQ craze with its own deployment of it in Instagram Live. For now, this is the ingest part, whereas the real ROI comes on the egress - the only reason for doing it this way is likely reducing risks and gaining operational understanding and experience with MoQ. As more such deployments come to life, the importance and use of WebRTC in live streaming scenarios lowers.
📰 This Week in WebRTC
Voice agents get confused by echo too (webrtcHacks) - following last week’s piece on Chrome’s neural echo estimator, this one looks at speech to text improvements due to it
Help us shape device audio capture on the web (patrickbrosset.com) - an Edge team proposal for audio-only capture, asking for feedback
Improve Video App Reliability With the Vonage Video API (Vonage) - retry and recovery patterns for the Vonage Video Web SDK
Changes coming to meet.jit.si (Jitsi) - meetings on meet.jit.si now capped at 95 minutes. Free is now a bit more limited
What Is Video Latency? Streaming Latency By Protocol (Wowza) - a primer on how much latency each streaming protocol adds. Wowza has been updating it on a yearly basis
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📢 Releases
Janus tagged versions 1.4.3 (multistream) and 0.16.3 (legacy) - both ship fixes for vulnerabilities reported by AdaLogics
Introducing the OpenVidu Agent Plugin for coding agents - OpenVidu leans in on agentic AI with their own AI plugin, containing an MCP documentation server and dedicated skills
✍️ This Week on BlogGeek.me
WebRTC Screen Sharing Is Not Video - Here’s Why - why screen sharing needs its own encoder settings, dashboards and expectations