WebRTC: Real Time Video/Audio For Your App ...
- 1. WebRTC: Real Time Video / Audio For Your App Riaz Virani
- 4. How Did We Get Here?
- 5. HISTORY! - Part 1 Once upon a time, we had slow internet limited to ISDN and dial up. We used AOL Instant Messenger and RealPlayer. Hell, Google was still a startup. But then the gods gave us faster internet. We started to video chat and watch endless videos of stupid house cats. Yet the browser was still a fail.
- 6. HISTORY! - Part 2 We needed Skype and Flash to talk to grandma. Nope, there was no native HTML5 solution for our nanna. So… webRTC baby!
- 8. Key Pieces GetUserMedia (camera and microphone access) PeerConnection (sending and receiving media) DataChannel (sending and receiving everything else)
- 9. What It’s Not WebRTC Peer-to-Peer Audio, Video, or Data WebSockets Bi-Directional Pipe Between Client and Server
- 10. Server Side
- 11. Peer ⇔ Peer =
- 12. ! Peer ⇔ Peer = Required 20% of the time
- 13. This #$@&! can get complicated
- 15. Real Time Video Chat for Everybody!
- 18. ORTC (Object RTC) Originally designed by Robin Raymond of HookFlash in 2013 Removes WebRTC’s use of Session Description Protocol Some think it’s too loose of an API Google wants to merge both into “WebRTC NV” Microsoft is the only vendor who supports ORTC
- 20. Popular Providers All-in-One Platforms ● OpenTok ● Twilio Libraries ● PeerJS ● SimpleWebRTC ● Muaz Khan’s Libraries ● EasyRTC Network Traversal ● Xirsys ● Twilio ● Bit6
- 21. Maybe this is the year...
- 22. But maybe not... “Just 4% of participants in the Nemertes' 2015-16 Enterprise Technology benchmark said they were using WebRTC today” - NoJitter.com (2/3/16) The Bottom Line
- 23. The End