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WebRTC Digest – Week of 7/22 – Chromecast, WebRTC Book 2nd ed., WebRTC Hacks

Chromecast

Google launched the Chromecast, an HDMI dongle that lets you display tabs from Chrome on your laptop or mobile device on a TV. Assuming the performance is good enough, this sounds like a simple and cheap way to put a WebRTC call on a big screen.

WebRTC Book Second Edition

WebRTC: APIs and RTCWEB Protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web is a book dedicated entirely to WebRTC and is now available in a second edition that covers ICE, STUN, and TURN. The book is available both digitally and in paperback.

WebRTC Hacks Blog

Chad Hart, Director of Product Marketing at Acme Packet, teamed up with Reid Steidholph and  Victor Pascual Ávila to create the WebRTC Hacks blog. In their words, it is a blog that

puts a developer audience first

and

helps developers move the WebRTC market forward

WebRTC Digest – Week of 7/15 – WebRTC Book and IETF Unified Plan

WebRTC Book

Ilya Grigorik, Developer Advocate at Google, is in the process of writing a book titled High Performance Browser Networking. A preview of the book is available and it has an entire chapter dedicated to WebRTC, complete with examples and diagrams.

IETF – Unified Plan

RTCWeb IETF working group members came to a compromise on a “Unified Plan for SDP Handling”; the authors include representatives from Mozilla, Google and Microsoft.

WebRTC Digest – Week of 7/8 – Chrome 28, Intel, MediaStream Recording

Chrome 28

Chrome 28 was officially released to the stable channel. The WebRTC-related changes are available in this post to the discuss-webrtc mailing list.

Intel WebRTC

Intel launched a service called “Intel Collaboration Service for WebRTC”, which currently consists of a JavaScript and Android API. Tsahi Levent-Levi speculates that this might result in chipset-level WebRTC support on Intel processors.

MediaStream Recording

Progress is being made on the MediaStream Recording implementation. Support for audio recording landed in Firefox Nightly with progress being tracked in this Bugzilla bug. The Chrome (Blink) team published an “Intent to Implement” document for recording on the blink-dev mailing list and is discussing how best to implement it.

WebRTC Digest – Week of 7/1 – VP9, TURN, Reveal.JS

VP9 in Chrome Dev Channel

VP9, the next-generation video codec and successor to VP8, is now enabled by default in the Chrome Dev channel.

IETF Draft for TURN Credentials

A new IETF draft for requesting time-limited TURN credentials for WebRTC apps was uploaded by Justin Uberti, Tech Lead for WebRTC at Google.

Gestures + Reveal.JS

A fun Chrome Experiment combining Reveal.JS, an HTML presentation framework, and webcam-based gestures was circulating on Twitter: herokuapp.com. The source code is available to fork on GitHub.

vLine Wins Audience Choice and Best Conferencing Awards at WebRTC Expo

One of the toughest decisions you have to make as a startup is how much time and effort to spend building your product vs. promoting it. For most of the last two years, we decided to remain laser focused on the building side of things. 

As a result, when we showed up at the WebRTC Expo in Atlanta last week, a lot of people in the WebRTC community hadn’t heard of us. That made it all the more rewarding to leave the conference with both the Audience Choice Award, which was awarded based on voting from conference participants, and the Best Conferencing Award, which was awarded by a panel of judges to the best multi-party conferencing solution.

If you missed the conference, you can check us out in the following videos (courtesy of TMCNet):

And thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and snagged a #webrtcisready t-shirt. We met a lot of great folks and look forward to continuing all those conversations.