{"id":2987,"date":"2014-09-24T16:15:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T05:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2014-09-25T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T22:50:00","slug":"you-should-use-webrtc-for-your-1-on-1-video-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2014\/09\/24\/you-should-use-webrtc-for-your-1-on-1-video-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"You should use WebRTC for your 1-on-1 video meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Firefox 33 (currently in Beta) lets you make a Skype-like video call directly from one running Firefox instance to another without requiring an account with a central service (such as Skype or Vidyo)?<\/p>\n<p>This feature is built on top of Firefox&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WebRTC\">WebRTC<\/a> support, and it&#8217;s kind of amazing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty easy to use: just click on the toolbar button that looks like a phone handset or a speech bubble (which one you see depends which version of Firefox you have) and you&#8217;ll be given a URL with a <code>call.mozilla.com<\/code> domain name. <strong>[Update: depending on which beta version you have, you might need to set the <code>loop.enabled<\/code> preference in about:config, and possibly customize your toolbar to make the handset\/bubble icon visible.] <\/strong>Send that URL to somebody else &#8212; via email, or IRC, or some other means &#8212; and when they visit that URL in Firefox 33 (or later) it will initiate a video call with you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started using it for 1-on-1 meetings with other Mozilla employees and it works well. It&#8217;s nice to finally have an open source implementation of video calling. Give it a try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Firefox 33 (currently in Beta) lets you make a Skype-like video call directly from one running Firefox instance to another without requiring an account with a central service (such as Skype or Vidyo)? This feature is built on top of Firefox&#8217;s WebRTC support, and it&#8217;s kind of amazing. It&#8217;s pretty easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,15881],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}