WebRTC.ventures is proud to produce WebRTC Live, a webinar series about the latest use cases and technical updates to this popular coding standard for live video. Decision-makers and developers around the world tune into our WebRTC Live broadcasts to learn new things about WebRTC. Each episode is about 15 minutes long and includes a guest interview, making them easily digestible nuggets of WebRTC wisdom. Check out our past episodes below!
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October 19, 2022
UP NEXT! WebRTC Live #72 with David Zhao of LiveKit
Wednesday, October 19 at 12:30 pm Eastern.
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Can’t join us? Feel free to register and we will send you a copy of the recording.
September 28, 2022
WebRTC Live #71: The Open Source WebRTC Landscape
Wednesday, September 28 at 12:30 pm Eastern.
Chad Hart of webrtcHacks and Kranky Geek will join us for an analysis of recent open source trends, highlighting today’s most popular WebRTC-related open source repositories. He’ll also share his views on the WebRTC industry at large, how WebRTC is faring among developers since the pandemic, and will update us on recent and upcoming webrtcHacks posts.
Chad Hart has extensive experience as a WebRTC product consultant and analyst. He is the founding editor of webrtcHacks, a blog for WebRTC developers that has been serving the community for 9 years. Chad is also a frequent WebRTC speaker and organizer of the popular Kranky Geek WebRTC Event series. When he is not working with the broader community, he leads a product management team at Hopin.
Recording coming soon.
August 24, 2022
WATCH WebRTC Live #70: Using Kamailio to Connect WebRTC to SIP and PSTN
Wednesday, August 24 at 12:30 pm Eastern.
For our 70th episode of WebRTC Live, Arin welcomed Kamailio Consultant, VoIP Engineer, SIP Expert Fred Posner to discuss bridging WebRTC to SIP via Kamailio and use cases such as call centers, remote workers, and PSTN connectivity.
July 20, 2022
WATCH WebRTC Live #69: What Have Our Own Experts Learned Lately?
Wednesday, July 20 at 12:30 pm Eastern.
For our 69th episode of WebRTC Live, Arin welcomed two more members of our expert team for the third installment of our WebRTC.ventures Roundtable series. WebRTC Developer Hamza Nasir spoke about “Attention Detection in Video Conferencing.” Senior DevOps Engineer Hector Zelaya explored “Automating Configuration for WebRTC.”
June 15, 2022
WATCH WebRTC Live #68: What’s New With Pion? with Sean DuBois
For our 68th episode of WebRTC Live, Arin welcomed Sean DuBois back to the show for an update on the Pion project, an open source WebRTC implementation in Go which he started and maintains. Sean also talked about his work implementing Pion at Twitch, his other WebRTC knowledge-sharing projects (WebRTCWork.com and WebRTCForTheCurious.com), and answered a ton of questions!
May 11, 2022
WATCH WebRTC Live #67: Reducing Complexity and Latency for WebRTC with Subspace
For our 67th episode of WebRTC Live, Arin welcomed Subspace Vice President of Global Sales, Davide Petramala to help us better understand how Subspace improves network performance and reduces complexity for WebRTC.
We were sad to hear that shortly after this recording, Subspace stopped operation. It is a brilliant idea, which we truly hope someone will make a reality in the future.
April 20, 2022
WATCH WebRTC Live #66: The State of WebRTC Browser Support with IIT Professor Karl Stolley
With the release of Safari 15.4, all major browsers now support WebRTC’s perfect-negotiation pattern. For our 66th episode of WebRTC Live, Arin welcomed IIT Professor Dr. Karl Stolley, author of Programming WebRTC: Build Real-Time Streaming Applications for the Web, for a progress report on WebRTC browser implementation. While they have never been as robust or as uniform as they are right now, Karl covered lingering issues in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox.
March 9, 2022
WATCH WebRTC Live #65: The Impact of New Tech on WebRTC Applications with Tsahi Levent-Levi
For our 65th episode of WebRTC Live, Arin welcomed back Tsahi Levent-Levi to explore how new technologies such as WebCodecs, WebAssembly, WebTransport, and AV1 may affect the design and the development of WebRTC applications in the future. Tsahi is a leading authority in our community, keeping us up to speed on the world of communications, WebRTC, and CPaaS. He is the founder of testRTC and teaches WebRTC to developers through webrtccourse.com.
February 9, 2022
WATCH WebRTC Live #64: Pivoting Back to Hybrid Meetings with Lorenzo Miniero
For our 64th episode of WebRTC Live, Arin welcomed back Lorenzo Miniero, Chairman of Meetecho and Founder of the Janus media server to discuss the technical challenges in implementing fully hybrid meeting such as March 2022’s IETF 113 Conference. Lorenzo also reflects on the 8th birthday of the Janus media server and the upcoming release of Janus 1.0.
January 25, 2022
WATCH WebRTC Live #63: What Have Our Own Experts Learned Lately? (WebRTC.ventures Team Roundtable)
In this second installment of our Roundtable series, two more members of our expert team shared a nugget of WebRTC wisdom gained from their recent work. Alfred Gonzalez discussed refactoring a WebRTC app to scale. Jacob Greenway shared his experience with a Javascript API called Offscreen Canvas.
December 15, 2021
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #62: Notable Hacks from TADHack Global 2021 with Alan Quayle
We concluded a great 2021 season of WebRTC Live by shining a light on the innovative telecommunication developers from around the world. We invited TADHack founder Alan Quayle to share his favorite hacks of TadHack Global 2021.
November 10, 2021
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #61: A Fireside Chat on the Future of WebRTC with Varun Singh and Kwindla Kramer
Arin welcomed Callstats.io founder Varun Singh to explore the future of WebRTC. Varun also shared a special announcement: he has joined Daily.co as Chief Product and Technology Officer. Daily Co-Founder Kwindla Kramer joined the conversation.
October 20, 2021
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #60: What WebRTC Developers Need to Know About WebCodecs with Chris Cunningham
Arin welcomed Google Senior Software Engineer and co-editor of the WebCodecs and MediaCapabilities web specifications, Chris Cunningham, to explore what WebRTC developers need to know about WebCodecs.
September 19, 2021
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #59: What Have Our Own Experts Learned Lately? (WebRTC.ventures Roundtable)
Arin welcomed three of our team’s senior WebRTC engineers to each share a piece of WebRTC wisdom with our viewers. Who better to learn from than those who work with WebRTC each and every day? Topics ranged from unit testing challenges to restrictive network issues to optimizing audio group chat applications.
August 25, 2021
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #58: XDN (Experience Delivery Network) as an Architecture for Our New Interactive World with Chris Allen
Arin Sime was joined by Red5 Pro CEO Chris Allen to discuss the evolution from peer-to-peer connections to SFUs to “XDNs” – multidirectional live content delivery networks designed for today’s real-time video experiences. Watch it here!
July 14, 2021
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #57: How To Successfully Scale Your WebRTC in 2021 with Anton Venema
Arin was joined by Anton Venema, CTO at LiveSwitch Inc for a deep dive into successfully scaling your WebRTC application in today’s technological landscape. They discussed the basics of scalability and media servers, optimizing for client vs. server efficiency, RTP packets and streams, bitrate management, the benefits of using a CPaaS to scale, and more. Watch it here!
June 16, 2021
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #56: How To Create Social Group Magic with WebRTC and Wonder with Leonard Witteler
Arin was joined by Wonder Co-Founder Leonard Witteler. Leonard and his team have used WebRTC to build a virtual space for groups to meet, talk, exchange ideas, and work together that is so much more than a networking tool for virtual business conferences.
May 19, 2021
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #55: Around – Building the Future of Collaborative Audio & Video Experiences with Manik Sachdeva
Arin welcomed Around’s new Director of Engineering, Manik Sachdeva, to discuss the features, talent, technology, and tech stacks that is helping Around build a better set of tools for keeping us connected in the new normal of collaborative and hybrid work environments.
April 28, 2021
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #54: Unleashing the True Power of WebRTC with Real-Time AV1 SVC with Sergio Murillo
On the April 28, 2021 episode of WebRTC Live, Arin was joined by Sergio Garcia Murillo, founder and main developer for Meedoze technology, CoSMo’s Media Server Tech Lead, and Millicast’s Principal Engineer and Solution Architect. They discussed the importance of true real-time streaming and how AV1 is going to get us there.
April 14, 2021
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #53: Building a New Generation of Interactive Real-Time Streaming Solutions With WebRTC with Ryan Jespersen
Arin welcomed Millicast Streaming Media Engineer Ryan Jespersen to explore how the use of WebRTC is expanding beyond the initial core design. Real-time video streaming is being done at web scale with millions of viewers and thousands of concurrent streams in a growing number of use cases. Ryan shared Millicast’s success stories in live sports and remote production, and discussed the architectures needed to enable those use cases.
March 17, 2021
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #52: Automated Testing for WebRTC with Justin Williams
Maintaining quality and performance as complexity increases and constraints change is very difficult to do in any application, particularly in live video. Testing is a must. Episode 52 of WebRTC Live with our own Senior WebRTC Engineer, Justin Williams, covered the basics and types of automated testing, continuous integration and deployment, verifying tests, testing call quality, and more.
February 17, 2021
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #51: NV – The Next Version of the WebRTC Standard with Bernard Aboba
Now that WebRTC 1.0 is here, what comes next? Arin was joined by Microsoft Principal Architect and W3C WebRTC Co-Chair, Bernard Aboba. They discussed what is coming down the pipe in WebRTC-NV.
January 27, 2021
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #50: WebRTC Trends for 2021 with Tsahi Levent-Levi
On January 27, 2021, WebRTC.ventures produced our 50th episode! Arin’s guest was Tsahi Levent-Levi to discuss what’s next in WebRTC development in 2021. Tsahi is a leading authority in our community, keeping us up to speed on the world of communications, WebRTC, and CPaaS.
December 9, 2020
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #49: Debugging WebRTC Applications
Arin’s guest for this episode of WebRTC Live was our own Senior WebRTC Engineer and Developer Evangelist, Germán Goldenstein. They discussed tools and methodologies for debugging WebRTC applications.
November 11, 2020
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #48: WebRTC and Security
Arin’s guest for this episode of WebRTC Live was Google Security Engineer Natalie Silvanovich. You might assume that WebRTC is inherently secure, but Natalie opened our eyes to various vulnerabilities in WebRTC and how integrators can protect against them.
October 28, 2020
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #47: “WebRTC For The Curious”
Arin’s guest for this episode of WebRTC Live was Sean DuBois, Pion WebRTC Creator and Developer at Amazon Web Services. He is also the author of WebRTC For The Curious, an open source book created by WebRTC implementers to share their hard-earned knowledge. Click here to watch the recording!
September 23, 2020
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #46: Accessible Telecom Development For (Almost) Everyone
Arin’s guest for this episode of WebRTC Live was Alan Quayle, founder of TADHack Global, the largest series of worldwide telecom hackathons. This hackathon that helps people learn about the latest Internet, IT, and Communications technologies; and use those technologies to solve problems that matter. Click here to watch the recording!
September 9, 2020
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #45: Using NDI with WebRTC for Broadcasting
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #45 of WebRTC Live with guest Lorenzo Miniero of Meetecho. Lorenzo and Arin discussed a prototype Lorenzo has built for connecting a common broadcasting tool (NDI – Network Device Interface) with WebRTC. This is a technology gap that Lorenzo and others in the WebRTC community have observed during the pandemic, and which would allow TV producers to connect with remote guests for interviews via WebRTC instead of proprietary meeting tools.
June 24, 2020
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #44: Shelter in Place on Networking Quality for Video Apps
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #44 of WebRTC Live with guest Varun Singh, Founder and CEO of callstats.io and Head of Call Quality and Connectivity with 8×8, who discusses the impact of shelter in place (ShIP) on networking quality for video applications.
May 6, 2020
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #43: Niche Applications of WebRTC
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #43 of WebRTC Live with guest Tim Panton, co-founder and CTO of |pipe|, who discusses the magical things that WebRTC can do when you apply it to niche problems.
April 22, 2020
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #42: Asterisk, WebRTC, and DialogFlow,
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #42 of WebRTC Live with guest Dan Jenkins, founder of Nimble Ape, to discuss WebRTC, Asterisk, and how to use Asterisk as a connector into speech-to-text services and DialogFlow.
April 8, 2020
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #41: AV1 and End-to-End Media Encryption
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #41 of WebRTC Live with guest Dr. Alex Gouaillard, founder of CoSMo Software. Dr. Alex provides an update on AV1 in Chrome and discusses end-to-end media encryption in the browser and what that means for video conferencing and streaming WebRTC apps and services.
April 1, 2020
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #40: Tsahi’s WebRTC CodeLab Course
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #40 of WebRTC Live with guest Tsahi Levent-Levi, WebRTC consultant, thought leader, founder of BlogGeek.me, and co-founder of the KrankyGeek WebRTC event series. Tsahi discusses a WebRTC CodeLab course he’s launching.
March 4, 2020
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #39: Challenges Building WebRTC Applications
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #39 of WebRTC Live with guest Alberto Gonzalez, Senior Engineer at WebRTC.ventures, to discuss challenges, complexities, and lessons learned from building WebRTC applications.
February 5, 2020
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #38: Updates from webrtcHacks
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #38 of WebRTC Live with guest Chad Hart, noted real time communications consultant at cwh.consulting and founder of webrtcHacks.com, to discuss the recent posts on webrtcHacks, AI in RTC, and general WebRTC updates.
December 11, 2019
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #37: Pion WebRTC Stack
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #37 of WebRTC Live with guest Sean DuBois, Pion creator and developer at Amazon Web Services, to discuss the Pion.ly open source WebRTC communications stack. Sean also shows us an example of how it works.
November 13, 2019
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #36: Real Time AV1
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #36 of WebRTC Live with guest Dr. Alex Gouaillard, Founder and CEO of CoSMo Software, who discussed real-time AV1.
October 31, 2019
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #35: Supporting WebRTC Applications
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #35 of WebRTC Live with guest Tsahi Levent-Levi, WebRTC consultant, thought leader, and founder of BlogGeek.me, who discussed how to support WebRTC applications.
October 3, 2019
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #34: Trivia and Gaming with WebRTC
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #34 of WebRTC Live with guest Kyle Bank, Vice President of Sales Operations & Strategy at Phenix Real Time Solutions, to discuss the low latency data use cases of trivia and gaming with WebRTC. Kyle also shared some of what Phenix Real Time Solutions has learned working in this area as a preview of his upcoming IIT RTC Conference talk.
September 19, 2019
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #33: Contact Center Quality & callstats Update
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #33 of WebRTC Live with guest Varun Singh, PhD, Founder and CEO at callstats.io, to discuss the latest on WebRTC call quality, updates on callstats.io’s work, and his upcoming IIT RTC Conference talk.
September 5, 2019
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #32: Updates on Janus & SFUs
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #32 of WebRTC Live with guest Lorenzo Miniero, Chairman at MeetEcho, to discuss SFUs, Simulcast, SVC, and the upcoming JanusCon.
August 29, 2019
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #31: Leveraging the New Features of WebRTC 1.0
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #31 of WebRTC Live with guest Bernard Aboba, Principal Architect at Microsoft, to preview of Bernard’s upcoming IIT RTC Conference presentation entitled “WebRTC 1.0: Leveraging New Features.”
August 14, 2019
WATCH WebRTC Live Episode #30: Live Streaming with AI
Arin Sime from WebRTC.ventures hosts Episode #30 of WebRTC Live with guest Alberto Gonzalez, Senior Engineer at WebRTC.ventures, to discuss live streaming with AI.
Also worth the watch - a webinar from November 2017 ...
WebRTC Standards Live Q&A Session
“Selecting the Right Strategy for Your WebRTC Project”
WebRTC Standards asked WebRTC.ventures Founder & CEO Arin Sime to present on “Selecting the Right Strategy for Your WebRTC Project” during their last Live Q&A Session held on November 13th, 2017.
Sime addressed several questions: What’s the best option for your project? CPaaS or on-premise? Should you choose an open source platform or go for a commercial solution? Should you base your decision only on cost?
Click here to watch the webinar and click here to read the blog post!
Another from May 2016
The WebRTC Data Channel with Greta.io
WebRTC.ventures Founder and CEO Arin Sime hosts Episode 1 of the RealTimeWeekly Show on May 12, 2016 with Greta.io Co-Founder and CTO Dennis Mårtensson.
Dennis’s team built a peer-to-peer (P2P) content delivery network (CDN) based on the WebRTC data channel, allowing their customers to install a simple bit of JavaScript on their sites and share content between other site viewers. This WebRTC-based CDN helps their clients reduce the cost of serving images and video on their sites while improving performance under heavy loads. Dennis explains how Greta.io works and provides us with technical insights into what they’ve learned from using the WebRTC data channel.mClick here to watch the webinar!
The WebRTC Data Channel with Greta.io
WebRTC.ventures Founder and CEO Arin Sime hosts Episode 1 of the RealTimeWeekly Show on May 12, 2016 with Greta.io Co-Founder and CTO Dennis Mårtensson.
Dennis’s team built a peer-to-peer (P2P) content delivery network (CDN) based on the WebRTC data channel, allowing their customers to install a simple bit of JavaScript on their sites and share content between other site viewers. This WebRTC-based CDN helps their clients reduce the cost of serving images and video on their sites while improving performance under heavy loads. Dennis explains how Greta.io works and provides us with technical insights into what they’ve learned from using the WebRTC data channel. Click here to watch the webinar!
