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Video: @Hookflash @Microsoft ORTC and WebRTC NV talk at #KrankyGeek 2015 event

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Bernard Aboba joins W3C WebRTC WG as Editor

Bernard Aboba joins W3C WebRTC WG as Editor

W3C WebRTC working group chairs [Harald Alvestrand (Google), Stefan Håkansson (Ericsson), Erik Lagerway (Hookflash)], made a decision recently to add a new editor to the working group, as Peter St. Andre (&yet) has resigned as editor.

Bernard Aboba (Microsoft) has now been appointed as editor.

Bernard’s attention to detail and advocacy for transparency, fairness and community has been…

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New WebRTC WG Charter

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…

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My First @W3C #WebRTC Editor's Call

As newly appointed co-chair in the W3C WebRTC WG, I just participated in my first Editor’s Call, and I’m impressed.

We had to address nearly dozens of Pull Requests and Issues on the associated github repos. We managed to knock down quite a few that ended up getting merged and a few that were closed today, despite not having 1 co-chair and 1 editor present.

There were some suggestions on how we…

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W3C ORTC CG - Editors Draft Update

W3C ORTC CG – Editors Draft Update

Big thanks to everyone (especially Bernard) for putting in the extra work required here for our next CG meeting:

Draft Community Group Report 22 June 2015

  B.1 Changes since 7 May 2015

Addressed Philipp Hancke’s review comments, as noted in: Issue 198

Added the “failed” state to RTCIceTransportState, as noted in: Issue 199

Added text relating to handling of incoming media packets prior to remote…

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Changes in the W3C WebRTC Working Group

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…

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ORTC Lib - mini update #webrtc

ORTC Lib – mini update #webrtc

It’s been about a year since we uploaded the ORTC Lib presentation on slideshare …

We have been rather busy since then…

  Good things are coming! :)

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Vancouver WebRTC - Meetup 2 @PlentyofFish

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!

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W3C ORCT CG Meeting 9 - June 24, 10am PDT

W3C ORCT CG Meeting 9 – June 24, 10am PDT

We are holding our ninth CG meeting on the 24th of June…

https://www.w3.org/community/ortc/

Where: Online (TBD)

When: June 24, 2015 10am PDT

Agenda

Review action items from last meeting:

– RTCIceCandidateComplete dictionary https://github.com/openpeer/ortc/issues/207

– RTCIceGatherer.close affect on RTCIceTransport / RTCDtlsTransport https://github.com/openpeer/ortc/issues/208

– Comments added to…

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WebRTC Update from Justin Uberti, WebTorrent talk by Feross Aboukhadijeh & John Hiesey

WebRTC Update from Justin Uberti, WebTorrent talk by Feross Aboukhadijeh & John Hiesey

Fresh out of Google IO, Justin Uberti provides a WebRTC update via WebRTC Meetup in SFO at the Twilio HQ. Slides and demos are not visible, I am attempting to get a copy of the slides.

Justin talking points: – Renewed focus on mobile – HD bitrates and bandwidth estimation – Goal H.264 coming to Chrome 45 via Cisco’s OpenH264 (whoa!)

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Vancouver WebRTC - Inaugural Meetup Tonight!

Vancouver WebRTC – Inaugural Meetup Tonight!

Join us this eve at Launch Academy for the very first Vancouver WebRTC meetup!

This inaugural meetup should be a real fun event! I will be providing an introduction to WebRTC and Tobias Noiges (QHR Technologies) will be walking us through the creation of Medeo, a medical virtual visit application based on WebRTC.

Join us and learn about WebRTC and how it’s forever changing communications on the…

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W3C ORTC CG Meeting 8

W3C ORTC CG Meeting 8

ORTC CG Meeting 8 will be held on May 13 at 10am – Pacific Daylight Time.

Where: Online WebRTC Enable Meeting via Jitsi (https://jitsi.tools.ietf.org/ortc)

Agenda:

Review Bugs: https://github.com/openpeer/ortc/issues?q=is%3Aopen

Review current draft http://ortc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ortc.html

Stefan requested we comment on this… The WebRTC and Device APIs Working Groups request feedback on…

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WebRTC Meetup - Vancouver

WebRTC Meetup – Vancouver

  Vancouver is one of the hotbeds for IP communication technology and is home to many developers. With the advent of WebRTC, integration of voice and video chat into almost any application is within reach but as always, there are always pitfalls. Sounds like a great reason to start a WebRTC meetup in Vancouver!

As of today Vancouver now has its own WebRTC meetup group. If you are interested in…

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ORTC and WebRTC Consulting

ORTC and WebRTC Consulting

   Hookflash is now providing WebRTC and ORTC Consulting services.

Professional Services Pack

For organizations looking for an expert ORTC / WebRTC developer to provide assistance or become a part of their teams for specific projects. Depending on your needs, the Hookflash subject matter expert can help with any aspect of your project, including consulting, design, development, and QA. The PSP…

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W3C ORTC CG Meeting 7

W3C ORTC CG Meeting 7

22 January 2015 Editor’s draft: http://ortc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ortc.html

Changes from the October 14 Editor’s Draft:

WebRTC 1.0 compatibility

Statistics API Update (Issue 85)

H.264 parameters update (Issue 158)

Support for maxptime (Issue 160)

RTCRtpUnhandledEvent update (Issue 163)

Support for RTCIceGatherer.state (Issue…

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ORTC Library - Introduction

ORTC Library – Introduction  Object RTC (ORTC) is a free, open project that enables mobile endpoints to talk to servers and web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via native and simple Javascript APIs. The Object RTC components are being optimized to best serve this purpose.

Our mission: To enable rich, high quality, RTC…

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

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…

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