WebRTC Articles
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PeerSquared – one-on-one online teaching with WebRTC
It was somewhere in the midst of 2010 when I first learned that the people at Ericson Labs were working on an ‘open standards’ browser implementation for P2P video chat. I was excited right away. The fact that you could only use video chat in your web browser through Flash or other plug-ins bothered me. […]
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WebRTC comes to Firefox
As we mentioned in the Hacks blog back in April , WebRTC will be on by default in Firefox 22. getUserMedia (gUM) has been on by default since Firefox 20. PeerConnection and DataChannel, which enable video/audio calling and peer-to-peer data sharing, are what’s new in Firefox 22 (due to be released today). WebRTC brings real-time […]
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Embedding WebRTC Video Chat Right Into Your Website
Most of you remember the Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling! blog post right here in Mozilla Hacks demonstrating WebRTC video chat between Firefox and Chrome. It raised a lot of attention. Since then we here at Fresh Tilled Soil have seen a tremendous amount of startups and companies which have sprung up building products based […]
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WebRTC Update: Our first implementation will be in release soon. Welcome to the Party! But Please Watch Your Head.
I want to share some useful and exciting updates on Firefox’s WebRTC implementation and provide a sneak peak at some of our plans for WebRTC moving forward. I’ll then ask Adam Roach, who has worked in the VoIP/SIP space on IETF standards for over a decade and who joined the Mozilla WebRTC in November, to […]
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WebRTC Data Channels for Great Multiplayer
WebRTC is getting great press lately for it’s amazing applications in voice and video communication. But did you know that WebRTC also has support for peer-to-peer data? Below I’ll talk about the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of data channels, and then I’ll show you how we’re using them in BananaBread to support peer-to-peer multiplayer.
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Making WebRTC Simple with conversat.io
WebRTC is awesome, but it’s a bit unapproachable. Last week, my colleagues and I at &yet released a couple of tools we hope will help make it more tinkerable and pose a real risk of actually being useful. As a demo of these tools, we very quickly built a simple product called conversat.io that lets […]
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Google and MPEG LA Agree, Free VP8
Today Google and the MPEG LA jointly announced a licensing agreement with 11 companies to protect all users of the VP8 video codec. With the agreement in place, developers can make great sites with WebM without fear of legal retribution. As a quick refresher, MPEG LA licenses the patents needed for many common, proprietary video […]
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WebRTC enabled, H.264/MP3 support in Win 7 on by default, Metro UI for Windows 8 + more – Firefox Development Highlights
Time again for looking at the latest progress with Firefox. These posts are part of our Bleeding Edge and Firefox Development Highlights series – take note that most examples only work in Firefox Nightly (and could be subject to change). WebRTC enabled by default Previously, you needed to go to about:config in Firefox and set […]
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Responsive Web Typography with WebRTC
I love where emerging web technologies — such as WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) and WebAPI — are headed, because they make it possible to use various parts of hardware that already exist inside our computers, tablets and smartphones to improve the user experience. Responsive Typography with WebRTC is yet another example of a simple concept […]
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Cross-browser camera capture with getUserMedia/WebRTC
Overview With Firefox adding support for getUserMedia, three of the major desktop browsers now have the ability to get data from cameras without the use of plugins. As it’s still early days, however, the implementations differ slightly between browsers. Below is an example of how to work around these differences and a script to do […]