Most WebRTC implementations require some kind of recording these days, but they are often cumbersome and implementing them is complex. Some even involve docker containers with X-servers running inside capturing a chrome window. Given their implementation complexity, it’s even harder to debug them, so is there an alternative to this tedious process? Enter Kurento Media Server. Kurento is an open-source media server, it has video transcoding and recording capabilities built-in it has been in development

Why STUN/TURN? In order to do WebRTC across different networks, we need to bypass firewalls and we also have all kinds of restrictions set by ISPs, in order to bypass this restrictions and punch a hole in the receptors firewalls to get media through we need to rely on a STUN/TURN server, to either find the right route if possible (STUN), or act as a relay server for the media passing through (TURN), in this

We are proud to announce that WebRTC.ventures will host TADHack Global 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition to Buenos Aires, this year’s 2017 event will take place in over 30 other cities across the globe from September 22-24 and September 29-October 1. Our WebRTC.ventures team of developers have previously participated in a number of TADHack events and even won coveted prizes and Awards in 2015, 2016 and 2017 for our innovative telecom app prototypes, but

According to a recent article published by Kaiser Health News, Medicare is penalizing over 2500 hospitals due to the overly high readmission rates. Starting in October of this year, the federal government will cut those hospitals’ payments by as much as 3 percent for a year. Fortunately, there is a solution available to hospitals and health care systems — WebRTC Telehealth. The American Hospital Association (AHA) 2016 report, stated that growing evidence indicates that telehealth lowers

Over the last few days, Adobe has finally announced the day in which they’ll drop support for flash as a whole, at the end of 2020, this truly marks the end of an era for the internet. What does this mean for the internet? This means that sites that are still using Flash as a media solution will have to migrate to new technologies to provide their media and they will have to do it

To demonstrate the flexibility of WebRTC based applications, we have developed a video chat plugin for the popular wordpress platform that allows to make a call or initiate screen sharing between two users on the blog. You can make a call and other user will receive this call, you can also choose between sharing your screen or just sharing a webcam stream. This was done using one of many WebRTC based CPaaS (Communication Platforms as

Lately, WebRTC is a hot topic. Apple announced its support of Web Real Time Communication P2P video and audio chat applications.  Google supports it. Many businesses are adding it to their communications platforms due to its many benefits - increased client engagement, client reach, and client retention; increased growth and revenue, maximized efficiencies and the list goes on and on. You may even want to get started with WebRTC but you don't know where to begin. That's

Building high quality and scalable video chat web app with SwitchRTC As part of our daily gymnastic we always dedicate time and effort to learn and work with cutting edge technology. In WebRTC.ventures we’ve been using SwitchRTC which is a WebRTC based Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) that runs on Amazon AWS or other cloud public or private environments. We recently joined their partnership program SwitchRTC Technology Circle partner program and thanks to that we had

Calling All Developers — Take the Embedded Video Communication Survey Today! WebRTC.ventures has partnered with vidyo.io to create this embedded video communication survey and we need your input. As you may know, video is an emerging channel offered by CPaaS providers. The intent of this survey is to measure the perception of developers towards this channel and the results observed by those who are already using it. In the coming months, we will release a

After years of speculation, Apple has officially announced support for WebRTC! Like many prognosticators and consultants in the video communications space, I feel personally redeemed that things are becoming official. Just this week I was talking with a potential client and predicting that Apple would start to support WebRTC video communications in Safari and/or iOS later this year. I was hardly alone in this prediction, and by posting jobs for WebRTC engineers and attending the

[Testimonial] Docto Telehealth Video Chat Application From Zero to Demo in 3 Months After a year wasted on inexperienced developers, Docto's Director and Co-Founder, Dr. John Field turned to the WebRTC.ventures team to get professional help in developing and launching their medical specialist healthcare service. He was specifically interested in developing a telehealth video chat application that would connect patients with the medical specialists who would most likely to be able to assist the patient. A year

Facebook Messenger, Hangouts, Slack: Are you familiar with any of these apps? Do you know what they all have in common? The answer is all of them use WebRTC technology for client to client video conversations. Our team at WebRTC.ventures builds iOS apps like this with WebRTC, and so can you! In this blog post we will investigate how to get started building WebRTC into your iOS app. We will use the native libraries provided

WebRTC.ventures Charlottesville, Virginia USA team@webrtc.ventures For Immediate Release WebRTC.ventures is pleased to announce our inclusion in the SwitchRTC Technology Circle partner program, a small group of high quality development agencies certified to build video communication apps with the SwitchRTC Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU). SwitchRTC is a Cloud Native SFU that allows for building high quality and scalable multiparty video chat, screen sharing, text chat, and real-time broadcasting for applications that require low delay delivery of

WebRTC.ventures wins a RingCentral prize in TADHack-mini Orlando 2017 We’re very proud to have participated one more time in the Telecom Application Development Hackathon (aka TADHack). TADHack is the largest telecoms-focused hackathon worldwide. This time it was the TADHack-mini Orlando 2017, which happened on March 25 and 26 in Orlando. Germán Goldenstein, Rafael Viscarra and Fernando Vasquez from our team participated remotely and won a sponsor prize from RingCentral for building the "Telemergency Line app". This is basically

WebRTC Rising at Enterprise Connect 2017 The last time I attended the Enterprise Connect conference was in 2014. Three years ago, we had already been following WebRTC in our team, but we weren't doing very much client work yet in WebRTC. WebRTC was bleeding edge at that point - it was barely 2 years old and it was definitely not accepted yet as an enterprise class technology. What a difference 3 years makes! Attending Enterprise

Recent weeks have brought a slew of WebRTC conferencing tool announcements, especially targeted to the enterprise. Amazon announced Chime - their free conference tool which touts "exceptional audio and video quality." Google has started to roll out an enterprise version of Hangouts called Google Meet. And while not directly targeted at the enterprise, Amazon and Google are both planning to add telephony capability to Amazon Echo and Google Home. Adding VOIP telephone calls into those

An Open Letter to our developers (and potential developers) at WebRTC.ventures A note from Arin Sime, WebRTC.ventures CEO:  Germán Goldenstein has been a stellar developer in our team, and we recently promoted him to a Developer Evangelist position.  As part of this new role, he will create technical content that we use on this site to help others learn more about WebRTC and to promote our services. In this blog post, Germán shared a little

Using Kurento media server provides extra value to a WebRTC video call. In addition to the common features that every media server brings such as multi-party calls, media transcoding and recording, this open source webRTC media server adds others advanced multimedia capabilities: augmented reality, computer vision, broadcasting, mixing, and more. Combining these amazing features with Asterisk will result in a powerful solution that connects a IP-phone with a webRTC compatible browser, enhancing SIP communications with

The KrankyGeek team has done it again! They've put together another great event filled with WebRTC content. This time KrankyGeek was held in São Paulo Brazil, and our team at WebRTC.ventures was proud to sponsor the event as well as have one of our own (Germán Goldenstein) present an introduction to WebRTC. The following is our summary of the event, and we'll also include the videos produced by KrankyGeek as soon as they are publicly

Is your chatbot designed to be transactional or conversational? Multichannel or single channel? Social or functional? These are important questions to answer as you consider any sort of customer contact strategy involving text or video chat. Last week, my business partner David Alfaro attended the TADSummit in Lisbon, Portugal, and presented the multichannel chatbot that a few members of our team built for the Global TADHack in October. As previously blogged about, our team won