WebRTC

January 24, 2021

• WebRTC offers realtime communication native from web-browser
• WebRTC is a media engine with JavaScript APIs

WebRTC is both a “Browser tech” and “Software stack”

WebRTC 1.0

• Standard Specification
• Handled by the IETF and W3C

webrtc.org

• The open source project (Google)
• Holds an implementation of the WebRTC specification
• Can be used by anyone for anything

WebRTC is both an open source project (=Software Stack) and a standard specification (=Browser Tech)

WebRTC has 3 main APIs

• GetUserMedia

  Gain access to to camera, microphone or screen of the device

• PeerConnection

  Does everything… encodes, decodes media, sends it over the network, takes care of NAT traversal, etc.

• DataChannel

  Send arbitrary data directly between browsers - your low latency friend for whatever it is you want