#rtcweb

New WebRTC WG Charter

The new charter for the WebRTC Working Group has been approved. Current members will need to re-join, from the WebRTC WG mail list…

Hi all,

Great news, the new W3C WebRTC Working Group charter [1] has been officially approved by the W3C Director [2].

The revised charter adds a deliverable for the next version of WebRTC, has an updated list of deliverables based on the work started under…

Changes in the W3C WebRTC Working Group

With the forthcoming re-charter @W3C WebRTC Working Group, there were also a few managerial changes:

Peter Saint Andre (@andyet fame), will be joining as co-editor

Erik Lagerway, yours truly (co-founder @hookflash), will be joining as co-chair

Vivien Lacourba, W3C staff, will be helping out Dominique Hazael-Massieux with increased W3C staff time in the WebRTC Working Group

I am personally…

Vancouver WebRTC – Meetup 2 @PlentyofFish

With more than 40 members and growing, Vancouver WebRTC now has a new venue! Chris Simpson from PoF rallied to get us into their new presentation lounge, the “Aquarium”, thanks Chris!

  Our next event is on June 25th from 6-8pm and we have a great evening planned with Omnistream and Perch presenting!

Come check it out!

Do you really want a dual MTI video codec for WebRTC?

We are now in the final throes of a consensus call in the IETF around which video codec should be made mandatory for those building WebRTC apps, services et al, who wish to be considered “WebRTC Compliant”.

The codec contenders are VP8 and H.264, in many forms and combinations.

This latest consensus call is for both codecs to be mandated for all WebRTC endpoints, or “dual MTI codec”. I am sure…

ORTC API Editor’s Draft – Last Call & WebRTC WG

The W3C ORTC Community Group has published an Editor’s Draft update to the ORTC API and is also asking for last call comments on the draft…

http://ortc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ortc.htmlWe are nearing completion of the ORTC specification for our initial ORTC community group draft. We are asking for last call feedback at this time. Some comments to explain some of the changes are still…

ORTC CG Meeting Video – Hookflash, Jitsi.org, Microsoft, Google and others.

Very productive CG call today, here is the entire 1 hour and 40 minutes. Plenty of great feedback coming from Bernard Aboba (Microsoft), Shijun Sun (Microsoft), Justin Uberti (Google), Emil Ivov (Jitsi.org) and Robin Raymond (Hookflash).

Looks like we are shooting for a Public Draft (with sample code) by end of June, we’ll see if…

H.264 has won the WebRTC codec debate

A few things have happened that lead me to believe that H.264 has already won the WebRTC codec debate, regardless of what was not decided in the IETF RTCWEB or W3C WGs…

  - Cisco delivers Open Source H.264 Codec via OpenH264.org

- Google and Cisco demonstrate H.264 interop in Chrome

- WebRTC Source Code for H.264 implementation surfaces in the WebRTC Developer mail list

So it looks like Chrome…

ORTC, WebRTC & Doohickeys

The ORTC CG is making great progress on many fronts and it looks like the conversation around RTPSenders & Receivers (formerly known as Doohickeys) is taking more shape in the WebRTC WG. They even have a name there now: RTCRTPSenders / Receivers. The WebRTC WG teleconference call today was far less controversial than I am used to, it felt like everyone is trying harder to get things done.

I am…