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Hello darkness, my old friend (or: client-side handling of access tokens)
I've been working quite a bit with Daily meeting tokens lately. My pre-Daily work with access tokens has mostly involved server-side flows, so I got to do all the fun parts and let other teams figure out how they want to deal with tokens on their native clients from there. Now, I've been working more with client-side…
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Wristcam SDK?
Saw this announcement from Apple: Wristcam Now Allows Apple Watches Without Cameras to Video Call With iPhones I have several questions: "Has anyone worked with the Wristcam SDK?" Is one of them. Another is: Which is harder? Calling into a meeting while sky diving, ziplining, surfing, or on an international heist? See at…
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Give me your favorite debugging tools, tips, tricks, etc
What's your favorite way to figure out "what's going on" with a particular webrtc connection? I primarily use chrome://webrtc-internals, but I understand maybe 10% of what's happening there. Most of the time I click around until I find a set of graphs that seem to correspond to the connection I'm curious about. From there…
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Use these tips to improve the accessibility of your video calls
Making website information and interactions accessible is often the difference between someone being able to use your app or find another one (if it exists!) that accommodates them. Barriers, such as different physical and mental abilities, geography limitations, language and device restrictions affect a huge number of app…
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🤣 Tell us your WebRTC puns
What's a pun? It's a joke that takes advantage of the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings. So, how many WebRTC puns can we think of? here's my humble attempt... The instructor for my online cooking course didn't tell us what spices to use. So…
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What client-side tricks do you use to scale WebRTC applications to larger call sizes?
I've worked with teams building video calling applications that run in a browser for quite a while now. If I've learned anything, it's that there's always a new trick to learn or limitation to work around. For example, in joining Daily, I learned that to balance CPU and network traffic, it's best to keep the overall…
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Misconceptions about developing, managing, and maintaining a WebRTC service
What's something your current-self could tell your past-self before you started building a WebRTC service or platform? WebRTC is a standard, but the 😈 is in the details 😅.
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What was the most challenging thing to learn when you started out with WebRTC?
When I first started learning about WebRTC, I had done some work in real time media, but I still found it quite hard to wrap my head around a bunch of concepts, especially since it's more a stack of protocols than a single self-contained standard. The stand out thing I found hard to understand (and now, hard to describe),…
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What do you think about the evolution of Media Transports: The newest flavour is QUIC
A fairly technical question, top of mind for me this week, given it is IETF week. Hosted in Philly, I thought it would be great to ask this question. Over the past 30 years, media has been delivered over UDP, then TCP, back to UDP. For example -- Streaming protocols used to be over UDP (using RTSP, real-time streaming…
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What is WebRTC currently missing?
Are there any features that you wish WebRTC had? For example, features that exist in other specs, or are coming in future iterations but not here yet? If so, what are they?