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Twilio Video – Real-time WebRTC video infrastructure

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Re: Twilio Video – Real-time WebRTC video infrastructure

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Post by kolencherry »

Everhusk wrote: post #30

It would be useful to know which browsers are supported for javascript developers. I am using OpenTOK for Real-time WebRTC at the moment which works great, but it doesn't have safari support. Would definitely consider switching if this worked on all browsers!

Chrome and Firefox are the only browsers supported WITHOUT plugins. Look into the plugin that Temasys makes, which enables support for IE and Safari. It's relatively trivial to write a shim for said plugin.

IE will bring native WebRTC support in the next version of IE.

Re: Twilio Video – Real-time WebRTC video infrastructure

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Post by kolencherry »

higherpurpose wrote: post #24

Is ORTC still being implemented in the next version of WebRTC? I've read that ORTC needs a greatly simplified implementation (if you forget about all the other legacy stuff in WebRTC, such as support for the phone networks).

I believe that ORTC has been added to the WebRTC 1.1 specification.

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Post by RobSpectre »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #25
RobSpectre wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good question - one of Twilio Video's aim is to take a lot of the signaling headache away. We do expose the PeerConnection, but not the SDP object. What would you want to use it for?

Extra authentication; new roles; address filtering (recognize VPN path etc); bundling control...

Check. Good feedback.

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Post by dirtyaura »

I did a lot of testing of a few WebRTC platforms last summer for a product idea that we had.

I came to the conclusion that on mobile phones, WebRTC video is not yet usable. Even with just audio on a cellular network, call quality started deteriorating after a few minutes on every platform that I tried. Video without a WiFi signal was hopeless.

I discussed this with an WebRTC expert, and the problems are partly with WebRTC, partly with how mobile operators shape their data traffic.

Also all platform implementations that were considered the best of the breed were bought by mobile chat companies (both SnapChat and OK Hello did acquisitions on this front)

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Post by andreyf »

RobSpectre wrote: post #17
jc4p wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"up to 4-way calling using peer to peer mesh topology" sounds like fancy names for regular WebRTC connections.

Rob from Twilio here - confirming this is an accurate description. Each peer in the conversation has a connection to every other peer.

Is there any chance of scaling WebRTC any better than that?

Re: Twilio Video – Real-time WebRTC video infrastructure

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Post by kolencherry »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #35

Doesn't CliqMeet do much of this? But it can go to 100+ because it provides an MCU service (multiplexing node), plus auditorium models as well. Is the difference that this is SaaS, and CliqMeet was an app?

CliqMeet is a video conferencing product. Twilio is offering an API to allow you to build your own products with WebRTC functionality built-in.
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