One-time permissions are here to stay!
June 11, 2025 7:00 pm Leave your thoughtsOne-time camera and microphone permissions are now in Chrome (since M116), joining Firefox and Safari. This means that per-session permissions […]
Author Archives for Jan-Ivar Bruaroey
Unbundling MediaStreamTrackProcessor and VideoTrackGenerator
September 20, 2024 3:49 pm Leave your thoughtsEarlier this year we promised more blog posts about new and exciting WebRTC functionality in standards. So today we’re talking […]
How WebRTC speaker selection works
July 1, 2024 4:07 pm Leave your thoughtsToday’s topic is speaker selection. If you’ve never given it much thought, or consider it straightforward, this post is for […]
setCodecPreferences is now in all browsers!
May 16, 2024 6:20 pm Leave your thoughtsWebRTC enables video calls directly in browsers. Effectively managing the codecs that encode and decode media streams is a crucial […]
End-to-end-encrypt WebRTC in all browsers!
February 21, 2024 7:55 pm Leave your thoughtsHi all, we haven’t blogged since the WebRTC API was standardized back in January of 2021! But now in 2024 […]
Camera & microphone require https in Firefox 68.
July 1, 2019 3:41 pm Leave your thoughtsAs of Firefox 68—releasing next week—camera and microphone will require an https connection to work. Access from insecure http will […]
Perfect negotiation in WebRTC
April 7, 2019 7:40 pm Leave your thoughtsNew preface: What if you could add and remove media to and from a live WebRTC connection, without having to […]
isRemote in getStats() will disappear in Firefox 66
December 5, 2018 6:21 pm Leave your thoughtsUpdate: We’ve pushed this back to Firefox 66, giving you a little more time! Please go to isRemote in getStats() will […]
isRemote in getStats() will disappear in Firefox 66
August 6, 2018 4:42 pm Leave your thoughtsAre you using getStats() for remote statistics in Firefox? Look for this warning today in Firefox Nightly (63, not 66): […]
Better privacy on camera mute in Firefox 60
May 9, 2018 11:59 am Leave your thoughtsOn a web conference call, have you ever wondered if people can see you? Maybe you’ve tried to decipher the […]