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lminiero

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About lminiero

I'm getting older but, unlike whisky, I'm not getting any better (https://janus.conf.meetecho.com)

Recent public activity

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    Comment #37705276

    What do you mean by "All of the artists are already on pretzel"? Do you mean all Bandcamp artists?

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    Comment #32997333

    As the main author of Janus, I didn't appreciate at all them proactively suggesting Calls as a replacement for existing deployments based on Janus and mediasoup. I'd understand the…

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    Comment #23385027

    Then I think what you can use are the Lua or Duktape plugins, which were indeed written to allow people to write their own logic without having to worry about C or forks: even if t…

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    Comment #23376118

    Janus only supports WebRTC, and WebRTC doesn't support MPEG out of the box (to be more precise, it's not in the codecs list any endpoint supports). Besides, streaming happens over …

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    Comment #23376111

    Why's that? We wrote it to be functionally identical to the Lua plugin (the code base is the same), so engine and language apart they should behave pretty much the same way. Is the…

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    Comment #23376096

    Not sure what you were expecting: at the very foundation of WebRTC is SDP, which implies negotiation, and with endpoints supporting potentially different codecs, negotiation is ver…

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    Comment #23376065

    It's not like Rust or Golang will magically save you either. I've been programming for a long time, C is my main language, so that's what I started using at the time and what I'm u…

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    Comment #23376059

    I didn't know anyone else apart from me and and my tutor had read my Ph.D Thesis... :-) Glad you found it informative! Janus was indeed born during my research efforts there.