AV1 real-time encoding in standalone webrtc and MilliCast platform was already available since April 2020, as we already covered in previous posts. For those who wanted to use it by themselves in a web app, however, you had to recompile Chrome. While we provided pre-compiled binaries for the community and the happy few brave enough […]
CoSMo provided the H264 simulcast implementation to chrome and safari (based on earlier patch by highfive, kudos to them). We helped Intel and Apple work together to put H265 in libwebrtc. AOMedia members, we also were among the first to have a realtime implementation of AV1 in libwebrtc, and have been regularly speaking publicly at […]
For the past weeks, lots of work was done to make Av1 available in libwebrtc in an easy way. It is very clear from the messages on discuss-webrtc that the compilation process behind chrome, electron and libwebrtc is more often than not too hard to understand, some extra time was spent to make it easier […]
The work to add RTC AV1 in Chrome, which started in November last year is now well underway. Many people still ask the legitimate question: when will it be available and how good will it be. We had planned to deliver the implementation at IETF in Vancouver at the end of the month and make […]
Within AOMedia things are moving fast with the preparation for AV2 in full speed. Outside of AOMedia, the adoption of AV1 is like a blazing fire. With the first AV1 adoption by Browser (decoder) two years ago, Netflix switching to AV1 for all content, recently on mobile as well, Hardware acceleration available for more than […]
WebRTC M80 release notes announced for the first time some support for AV1 in #webrtc. This is the closest one gets from official announcement of support, but it is also difficult from the one-liner in the release note to understand what it is about and how to use it. This blog post will present some […]
After the release of the Codec Spec in march 2018 (“frozen bitstream” and reference decoder), the next step qs to show that AV1 could be used in production. The decoder had to be made fast enough on commodity hardware, hardware vendor had to integrate AV1 support in their chips, for the base profile. Then advanced […]
It’s Xmas! Or, depending on your time zone, it’s about to be Christmas. It’s the season to be jolly, and CoSMo would like to bring you a few gifts. While we have been hard at work in the background to make sure #Webrtc gets better (some overview of that here), we have put a lot […]
While scalability is often the first excuse some use not to use WebRTC, a persistent claim even though that myth has been debunked long ago and many time over since, “quality” is certainly the second one. Webrtc cannot do <put a resolution here>, it’s just good enough for webcams, it cannot use more than 2.5 […]
This is really a great week with so many of the projects cosmo has been working on or helping for the past years coming out almost at the same time. During last IETF Hackathon, at the webrtc table, and then at cosmo offices in Singapore, INTEL and Apple came together to add HEVC support in […]