June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 33m
English
CHAPTER 8
![]()
Video-to-Video Using WebRTC
The natural progression to our chatroom is video-to-video, such as the kind Skype and Google Hangouts use, but until very recently this was a lot harder than it sounds. Why? Yep, you guessed it . . . plugins were required (namely, Flash). It was not until 2012, nearly 20 years after the start of the Web, that the beginnings of native video streaming from a webcam started trickling into the browsers. Now that WebRTC is starting to become well supported, it is worth learning how to use it. I am not going to pretend it is simple—it isn’t—but, once you’ve got your head around how it works, it does make sense. ...